EARLY HEARING DETECTION AND INTERVENTION VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
MARCH 2-5, 2021

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5/26/2021 | 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM | COMBINING INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND PLACE-BASED LEARNING: USING URBAN CAMPUS PONDS AS THE FOCUS FOR AN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH GROUP | Virtual Platform

COMBINING INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND PLACE-BASED LEARNING: USING URBAN CAMPUS PONDS AS THE FOCUS FOR AN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH GROUP

Recent trends in undergraduate research and education include a focus on interdisciplinary projects and on place-based learning. We developed a semester-long interdisciplinary undergraduate research program focused on the nine ponds on the Missouri Western State University campus, and this presentation will explore the benefits and challenges of this research approach. The program included eleven undergraduate students and five faculty from multiple scientific disciplines (geography, virology, genomics, ecology, zoology) and involved approximately half a day of research per student per week, weekly hour-long lab meetings of the entire group, and end-of-semester poster presentations to the university. We present student self-assessment data and suggest that bringing together faculty from multiple disciplines with projects focused on the same local ecosystem is a valuable technique for providing undergraduate students with hands-on research experience, exposure to a diversity of research areas and methods, and a better understanding of the ecosystems in and around their campus.

Ecosystem
Urban
Anthropogenic

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Carissa Ganong (), Missouri Western State University, carissa.ganong@gmail.com;