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LSURF - The Life Sciences Undergraduate Research Fair!
Labs are looking for YOU!
LSURF 2016 will be held on Tuesday, November 1, 2016 from 2:30-4:30pm at the Gutman Conference Center located on the ground floor of the Monroe C. Gutman Library at the corner of Appian Way and Brattle Street. This timing gives students time to find a host lab and apply for summer research fellowships, which typically have deadlines in January, February, or March.
What is LSURF?
The Life Sciences Undergraduate Research Fair is a poster session where Harvard-affiliated laboratories showcase their current research projects to Harvard College undergraduates. Groups come from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering, Harvard Medical School, the Broad Institute, and Harvard-affiliated hospitals, including Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, McLean Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Why do we organize the LSURF?
The LSURF facilitates scientific discussions between Harvard undergraduates and Harvard graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and other researchers. The fair is an effective way both for undergraduates to meet many scientists and learn about their cutting-edge life sciences research and for scientists to describe and explain their experimental approaches. The fair benefits both undergraduates and Harvard’s life science researchers. Many undergraduates report finding a host lab at the fair, and the Harvard scientists who present a poster relish the chance to speak with a large number of undergraduates, some of whom join their research groups.