Make an impact on equitable access to research opportunities by becoming a BUA Data Science Fellow

The Biology Undergraduate Apprenticeship program is one of the first of it's kind in the country! The BUA Data Science Fellows help us better reach students and mentors, improve the web site and analyze data to evaluate BUA's impact. We will work together on methods to evaluate the success of the program and to identify our shortcomings. We will put together reports using R and RStudio to improve the undergraduate experience at UMass, communicate our data on the web site and publish our results in a research journal.

Name of research group, project, or lab

Biology Undergraduate Apprenticeship (BUA) program

Website

https://bua.bio.umass.edu

Why participate in this opportunity?

The BUA program is providing equitable and transparent access to research and teaching opportunities. You can help make a difference! This project will also help to develop and showcase your data science skills.

Logistics Information:

Bioinformatics/Data Science

Student ranks applicable

Freshman

Sophomore

Junior

Senior

Student qualifications

Students will work in the Drupal framework (no experience necessary) to improve the BUA web site. Applicants are excepted to have an introductory knowledge of the R programming language and the Tidyverse packages.

5-7 h/wk

8-10 h/wk

Position Types and Compensation

Research - Ind. Study Credit

Techniques learned

The student may further develop R programming skills related to data wrangling and graphing. The outcome will be contribution to a report and presentation on the BUA program.

Project start

Fall Semester - 9/3/2024

This project will use a Mentor-Student contract.

Contact Information:

Mentor

Jeffrey Blanchard

jlb@umass.edu

Principal Investigator

Name of project director or principal investigator

Jeffrey Blanchard

Email address of project director or principal investigator

jeffb@bio.umass.edu

2 sp. | 9 appl.

5-7 h/wk (+1)

Bioinformatics/Data Science