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Biological Interactions Schedule

Here is the seminar schedule for the Biological Interactions Summer Program.

For other program details, please see the Student Information page.

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Pre-Program

 

Date Topic, Learning Objectives, and Activities Assignments Due
Pre-
Program		 Connect with your research mentor to learn about research project
  • Fill out the Research Experience Reflections and be prepared to share with a partner during orientation.
  • Prepare a “culture box” with 1-3 objects that represent important parts of your life story, especially as related to your social identities.

Week 1: Orientation

Date Topic, Learning Objectives, and Activities Assignments Due
5/30/23 BI Students Arrive

  • Students flying into Dane County Regional Airport will be provided transportation to Slichter Residence Hall
  • Welcome Dinner at Slichter
5/31/23
8:45 a.m.– 5:00 p.m.		 BI Program Orientation (full schedule here)

  • Meet other students and staff in the cohort
  • Learn about program structure and expectations
  • Create community engagement guidelines
  • Reflect on your goals for the summer program
  • Discuss strategies to establish communication and align expectations with your mentor
  • Pick up campus photo ID
  • For introductions, be prepared to share an image, item, word, or memory to describe what you like about research
  • Research Experience Reflections
  • Bring photo ID
6/1/23
9:00 a.m.– 5:00 p.m.		 BI Program Orientation (full schedule here)

  • Meet your Badger Buddy
  • Continue building community with BI peers
  • Learn more about our theme of Biological Interactions
  • Participate in the Adventure Learning Program
6/2/23
8:30 a.m.– 2:00 p.m.		 BI Program Orientation (full schedule here)

  • Participate in Safety Training
  • Define self-efficacy and its sources. Articulate how the sources of self-efficacy can be used to build confidence to complete research-related tasks.
  • Get to know your lab members better. Use the Research Group Diagram to record who is who in the lab.
 Read “Self-Efficacy and Why Believing in Yourself Matters”

Week 2

Date Topic, Learning Objectives, and Activities Assignments Due
6/6/23
9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.		 Professional Pathways Seminar

  • Develop an elevator sentence about your project 
  • Identify strategies to find relevant research literature
  • Identify strategies to read and comprehend relevant research literature
  • Phenotype activity
  • Read a research article related to your project and complete the framing funnel exercise

Week 3

Date Topic, Learning Objectives, and Activities Assignments Due
6/13/23
9:00 a.m.– 12:00 p.m.		 Professional Pathways Seminar

  • Faculty Research Talks
  • Revise your elevator sentences about your project and practice sharing with peers
  • Identify key elements of research posters and learn tips on designing an engaging poster
  • The Power of Social Persuasion: identify strategies to cope with and respond to feedback that may negatively influence your confidence
  • Revise Elevator Pitch: expert and general
  • Poster Hunt Activity
6/14/23
4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.		 Graduate School Welcome Dinner

Dejope Lake Mendota Room
640 Elm Drive, Madison, WI 53706
(map)

Week 4

Date Topic, Learning Objectives, and Activities Assignments Due
6/18/23
11:59 p.m.		 Proposal Posters Draft Upload file here to the BI 2023 Poster DRAFT Box Folder for review
6/20/23
9:00 a.m.– 12:00 p.m.		 Professional Pathways Seminar

  • Fostering a growth mindset
  • Grad Program Connections
  • Writing with a purpose: learn how to use a framing funnel to organize your writing
  • Phenotype activity
  • Read “Scientific Writing Made Easy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Undergraduate Writing in the Biological Sciences” and answer the guiding questions
  • Upload poster draft by 6/18 at 11:59pm

Week 5

Date Topic, Learning Objectives, and Activities Assignments Due
6/25/23
11:59 p.m.		 Proposal Posters Due Upload PDF file here to the 2023 BI Poster FINAL Box Folder for printing
6/27/23
9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.		 Professional Pathways Seminar

  • Faculty Research Talks
  • Presenting with a purpose: practice elevator pitch as introduction to poster presentation
6/30/23
9:20 a.m.–11:40 a.m.		 Get a professional headshot taken before the poster session (encouraged but optional)
WISCIENCE, Room 110
445 Henry Mall, Madison, WI 53715
(map)		 Sign up here for a time slot to have your photo taken
6/30/23
1:00 p.m.– 3:00 p.m.		 Biological Interactions Program Poster Session
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery Atrium
330 N Orchard St., Madison, WI 53715
(map)		  

Week 6

Date Topic, Learning Objectives, and Activities Assignments Due
7/5/23
9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m		 Professional Pathways Seminar

  • Grad School 101: understand the types of graduate program admissions and define the components of a graduate school application
  • Grad Program Connections
  • Phenotype activity
  • Paper Draft 1: Introduction
  • Identify 3–5 UW–Madison graduate programs to learn more about

Week 7

Date Topic, Learning Objectives, and Activities Assignments Due
7/11/23
9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.		 Professional Pathways Seminar

  • Ethics: identify and discuss ethical issues associated with doing science research.
  • Note: we will be watching Picture a Scientist, which includes references to sexual harassment. Please contact Amber if you have any concerns or prefer to not watch the film.
 Paper Draft 2: Methods

Week 8

Date Topic, Learning Objectives, and Activities Assignments Due
7/18/23
9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.		 Professional Pathways Seminar

  • Faculty Research Talks
  • Resilience in Grad School Panel
  • Science Presentations
 Paper Draft 3: Results
7/19/23
10:30 a.m–2:30 p.m.		 Grad School Resource Fair
Union South
1308 W Dayton St., Madison, WI 53715
(map)

Week 9

Date Topic, Learning Objectives, and Activities Assignments Due
7/25/23
3:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.		 Professional Pathways Seminar

  • Reflect on Research Experiences Reflection from week 1
  • BioScience Career Panel: learn about careers that use research outside of academia (4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.)
  • Draft of presentation slides
  • Paper Draft 4: Discussion
  • Discuss Mentor-Mentee Check-in #3

Week 10

Date Topic, Learning Objectives, and Activities Assignments Due
8/1/23
9:00 a.m.– 12:30 p.m.		 Final Presentation Practice and Feedback

  • Check-In: 9:00-9:15
  • Presenter 1: 9:15-9:45
  • Presenter 2: 9:45-10:15
  • Break: 10:15-10:20
  • Presenter 3: 10:20-10:50
  • Presenter 4: 10:50-11:20
  • Presenter 5: 11:20-11:50
  • Lunch: 11:50-12:30
  • Paper Draft 5: Complete draft including abstract
  • Complete draft of presentation slides
8/3/23
1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.		 Summer Research Program Final Symposium

  • Prepare and confidently present a 10-minute talk summarizing research findings
  • Join your colleagues in an end-of-program celebration at Memorial Union Terrace, 800 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53703 (map)
 Final presentation slides
8/4/23
9:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.		 BI Program Check-Out

  • Complete program evaluation
  • Submit final paper
  • Exit interview with program staff
 Final research paper due

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