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the UREKA program in TCD?

  • 27-11-2005 12:07am
    #1
    whyamihere?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭


    if anybody has done the UREKA program in trinity, could they give a quick summary about their experience? would be particularly interested if it involved maths/TP/neuroscience and suchlike. easy to apply? is it worth it? etc. thanks

    (UREKA... http://www.sfi.ie/content/content.asp?section_id=526&language_id=1


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  • #2
    John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    You do it in your own discipline (or at least pretty close to it). Basically you do a research project like you would do in your fourth year of your course. I did something a little different, I'm doing neuroscience and I did an imaging study of the development of the face in the mouse in the zoology department. Applying is easy but you have to be getting decent enough grades (2.1 or higher) for selection as far as I know. The researcher you apply with gets €2000 to cover the cost of the research and you get €300 a week for 10-12 weeks. At the end you have to do a short lab report.

    I thought it was well worth it as it is good quality research experience to put on your CV. Also I'd recommend doing something that involves techniques you won't use in your fourth year project. I did mainly gene cloning, in situ hybridisation, tissue fixing and computer work for the UREKA project and for my research project I'll be doing behavioural and cognitive tests followed by protein and gene expression assays. That way if you apply for a research post later in life you can say truthfully that you've got a wide range of techniques under your belt.


  • #3
    whyamihere?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭whyamihere?


    thanks for the info


  • #4
    fly_agaric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    I kinda "mentored" somebody for this - showing them the lab equipment and experimental methods, suggesting some reading etc. It was not in the areas you are interested in though. I'd say it gives a reasonable, not too taxing, experience of what it is like to work on a masters or a PhD by research.

    The student did a poster on the work and a report for SFI which seems to mainly be about your experience of the research rather than the technical details of what was done. In addition, the student I was working with did a lab report for the supervisor of the research too (perhaps everyone has to do this?).

    edit:irrelevant quasi-political axe-grinding statement removed
    http://www.sfi.ie/uploads/documents/upload/UREKA_SITE_call__for_2006_v3.doc


  • #5
    John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    The poster making is only for people doing the SURE part of the UREKA program which is only for physics and chemistry although for some reason me and my friend were signed up for it so we had to do posters. We had to try and explain gene expression and developmental biology to people who had no biological background whatsoever, fun times.


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