Welcome New UNL McNair Scholars!

Welcome to the new 2009 McNair Junior Scholars!
The new scholars are: (beginning at bottom left)
Arianne Holland (Psychology), Melissa Garfield (Anthropology & Psychology), Alex Goldstein (Nutritional Science), Michelle Haikalis (Psychology), Kaitlin Leslie (Forensic Science), Karise Carillo (Psychology), Katie Haferbier (Biological Sciences), Justin Escamilla (Psychology), Tyler Scherr (Biological Systems Engineering), Jeff Lopez (Chemical Engineering), Alan Goyzueta (Mechanical [...]

17th Annual California McNair Scholars Symposium: Building the New Academy

McNair Scholars have returned from the 17th Annual California McNair Scholars Symposium, which was aptly titled, “Building the New Academy.” Over 50 McNair Programs with budding future academics from across the United States were welcomed to the opening ceremony by Dr. Harold H. Campbell, director of the UC Berkeley McNair Scholars Program, which hosted [...]

Spotlight on UCARE

McNair Scholars have had a very busy year. While Senior Scholars were completing their graduate school applications and finalizing their poster presentations for the April Undergraduate Research Conference, Junior Scholars were turning in their summer research proposals and Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experiences (UCARE) applications.
Sponsored by the Pepsi Endowment, the UCARE program provides research [...]

Countdown to Berkeley!

Weeks of summer research and hard work are behind us, and the 2009 California McNair Scholars Symposium is fast approaching! Scholars have been busy finalizing their presentations that they will present alongside their fellow McNair Scholars from around the country.
Those who have attended the UC Berkeley conference in the past are the experts when it [...]

MSRE Week 7–Tackling Journal Articles

This week, two McNair Scholars touch on one of the key skills scholars hone while doing summer research: learning how to approach, read, and analyze journal articles. Many students may have come into contact with journal articles for classes, but likely have not spent a great deal of time searching for, compiling, and analyzing the [...]

Halfway Point!

Sure enough, as the summer heat has arrived here in Lincoln, time has flown by and we are to the halfway point of the McNair Summer Research Experience! Scholars in the past weeks have been dedicated to preparing the framework needed for a successful summer research project, and are now beginning to reap the rewards. [...]

MSRE Week Four Ends

With week four nearing its end, scholars continue to work hard on their projects.   As scholars continue to collect data, analyze, draft, and re-draft sections of their reports,  the focus of sessions this week has been on preparing for graduate school applications.  Monday marked the last of the scholar’s GRE Practice sessions, with the final [...]

McNair Summer Research Week 3 Underway

Week three marks the point where McNair scholars are officially 1/3 of the way through their summer research experience. This week, students have been busy writing drafts of their Introductions, Literature Review, and Theory sections of their research papers. As they’ve begun to write their Introductions and Background portions of their papers, scholars have also [...]

McNair Summer Research Begins

The 2009 McNair Senior Scholars have begun their 10 week “Summer Research Experience (also known as MSRE). Scholars have been busy learning about the typical structure of research papers in their respective disciplines, and have begun outlining their research projects which they will ultimately present at the California McNair Scholars Symposium at UC Berkeley in August.

Scholar Morgan [...]

How to Be a Successful Graduate Student by William Bauer

Success in graduate school isn’t something that occurs naturally.  You have to work at it.  Here are some recommendations and strategies that have worked for me:
Success in graduate school isn’t something that occurs naturally.  You have to work at it.  Here are some recommendations and strategies that have worked for me:
1. Be a careful observer

Keenly [...]