this university does a tremendous job
getting
getting our undergraduates involved in research and getting them involved at
high-level
research when I was it a graduate
student at Cornell University
and is a post doc at UW-Madison I did
have undergraduates work with me
in those labs. And those students I think
got good experiences
but we tended to have tended to have them to do more simple things in the lab
because they were graduate students and
postdocs to do the more complicated
research. Here at Eau Claire there are no
graduate student and
post docs so our undergraduates have to
do everything
right and so in a project if there's a
politically complicated experiment that
needs to be done
I have to work with my students to do
that and they get experience doing
some of that
really, really some the more
sophisticated things
and in a place like Madison or a Cornell,
the undergraduate students in the labs
tend to be put on this more of the simple
repetitive sort of work that is also part of
research and here because it only
undergraduate
lab they get whole experience actually
taking on a project and
working on all aspects of the project.  I like to think that I'm giving them
in this lab a world-class research
opportunity
that's as good as they could get at any other institution anywhere else in the
world
