{"id":348,"date":"2023-05-23T12:40:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T17:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/?page_id=348"},"modified":"2025-12-06T08:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T14:01:17","slug":"bsb499","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/biology\/bsb499\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Study in Biology or Microbiology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Earn course credit for lab research in BSB 499 or BSM 499<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/05\/undergraduate_rearch-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A student holds a sample in a biology lab\" class=\"wp-image-191\" style=\"width:512px;height:342px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/05\/undergraduate_rearch-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/05\/undergraduate_rearch-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/05\/undergraduate_rearch-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/05\/undergraduate_rearch-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/05\/undergraduate_rearch-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Beginning in your junior year, biology majors may apply to conduct research under the direction of a member of the Dept. of Sciences and Mathematics faculty for course credit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Students will conduct individualized descriptive or experimental research projects or directed readings under the direction of a faculty member serving as the project director, with two additional university faculty members approved the the Sciences and Mathematics Department Chair serving as committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">As a requirement of this course, students may be required to submit a written report or oral presentation on their activities during the semester to be reviewed and approved by the researchers committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Independent Study in Biology or Microbiology may be taken for 1-4 hours per semester and can be repeated for up to 8 hours credit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">To apply to this course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/activities\/facultyresearch\/\">contact a member of the Biology faculty currently engaged in research<\/a> with whom you are interested in working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earn course credit for lab research in BSB 499 or BSM 499 Beginning in your junior year, biology majors may apply to conduct research under the direction of a member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":69,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-348","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348\/revisions\/1186"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}