NYU Course Announcement

Although tremendous scientific progress has been made in recent times, the way we train our young investigators has remained basically the same – we practice apprenticeship. We offer our students courses on selected subjects, but we do not really teach them how to do research. Rather, by putting a student in a laboratory, we expect him to learn, perhaps by osmosis, everything there is to know about doing research. Many students found this process inefficient and frustrating. Dr. Sun has therefore organized this course, which deals with practical issues such as: how to get (any) laboratory techniques to work reproducibly and predictably? How to read a paper actively, rather than passively? How to pick a research project? How to write a scientific paper? And how to be an effective seminar speaker?

This short course consists of four sessions, each ~70 mins. covering several topics that a graduate student must master in order to survive and to excel in doing research. This year we have arranged for Dr. Sun to give these four lectures in a one-day Workshop on September 5 (Friday). These lectures will cover the following topics:

9:30 - 10:40 am	Experimental design
13:40-11:00 am	Coffee break
11:00-12:10 pm	Literature analysis
12:10-1:40 pm	Lunch (pizza and drink will be provided)
1:40 -2:50 pm	Scientific writing
2:50 -3:00 pm	coffee break
3:00- 4:10 pm	Oral presentation

For information, contact: 

Lisabeth Greene, Program Coordinator
Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences
New York University School of Medicine
550 First Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016
Office: 212-263-5648 Fax: 212-263-7600