Boston University School of Medicine STaRS program welcomes undergrads from around the country

"This unique program is designed for the first time to truly prepare these PhD candidates for their work as teaching assistants, a standard requirement for all such students," associate professor says

Standard laboratory courses in which students carry out classical experiments to recreate established results did not effectively engage STEM students

Test difficulty may be the cause behind lower scores of females; socioeconomic status also found to have effect

“The HACCP plan is a budget buster, and the Cornell food science students gave my little business an opportunity to go from small business to a medium-sized business."

Program provides nearly $400,000 towards various scientfic education initiatives and research 

In a survey of nearly 6,000 doctoral students in a broad range of fields, more than a third of the students with plans to pursue postdocs said they had more interest in careers outside of academic research

Lab is the only one of its kind that lets researchers collect data simultaneously on several people while they are interacting

“It’s incredibly simple and intuitive. And it’s quantitative and immersive–you’re playing with landscapes in real time.”

Berkeley Lab scientist Ee-Been Goh thrives on re-engineering bacteria and mentoring students