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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Paid undergrad research is going to expect a lot of low level busy work to justify the expense.

On the other hand, unpaid research is going to be more productive for an undergrad to have a higher level role in a research project since they are volunteering their time.  They can skip the low level busy work.

Finding a good faculty mentor who is willing to work with undergrads, and actually help them, is the hardest part.[/quote]

Paid summer research for undergrads is never going to actually be a good opportunity.  As the lowest level paid employee in the lab, they do the most basic tasks for hire.

Skip the idea of paid summer research.  Trust me.  Do unpaid research and actually be able to focus on higher level work, if you want to do research.[/quote]

That is completely out of date. Paid summer and semester spots in labs at my kids’ ivies and their various friends at JHU UVA Brown UCLA have all led to publications. Some have been these prestigious research lab experiences others have been university research with professors. These schools and likely many others do not hire students to be lab assistants, they get trained on equipment and then join research projects with post docs or the PI or maybe a grad student. They go to lab meetings, have a lot of reading to do outside the lab to understand the work being done. While yes you can be a paid lab TA for an undergrad course lab, that is not the same as these paid research jobs. [/quote]

The bigger issue is that the pool of paid jobs is shrinking with Trump’s funding cuts.  Another huge round of cuts proposed for his next budget, hopefully will not pass as proposed. [/quote]

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