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Investigations Handbook

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• INVESTIGATIONS - A Handbook for Biology and Chemistry Courses (.pdf) 
  • Scientific Paper section from the INVESTIGATIONS handbook. (.pdf)
  • Scientific Poster section from the INVESTIGATIONS handbook. (.pdf)

Of General Interest

• Conard Environmental Research Area (CERA) - A GC Biological Station
• GC Biological Chemistry Major
• GC Department of Chemistry
• GC Environmental Studies Concentration
• GC Environmental Stewardship
• GC Health Professions Advisory Committee
• GC Neuroscience Program
• Grinnell Science Project (formerly "New Science Project")
• GIS at Grinnell (Geographic Information Systems)
• Biology Student Educational Policy Committee (SEPC)

GC Journals, other resources (© Grinnell College)

• Pioneering Neuroscience - The Grinnell Journal of Neurophysiology. Twelve volumes.
• Tillers - A Journal of Prairie Restoration Research. Five volumes.
• powerpt.pdf guide, referred to in Investigations [.pdf]

In Preparation for the future (Students)

• National Academy of Science Publications - Careers in Science and Engineering
• American Society for Microbiology - Careers

Grad School Resources

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH)
• Gradschools.com
• Peterson's Guide to graduate programs
• U.S. News Graduate Schools
• The Council for Graduate Schools - A site with links for grad school advice and resources for applicants in any discipline.
• GradView - Another good general source of information for graduate school preparation no matter what your area of interest.
• Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
• Graduate School in the Life Sciences - An excellent guide with many, many links to important information. The site also has its own advice section and brings up things you should be pondering. A great clearinghouse of info. on basically everything even very specific types of fellowships that you may not have thought of.
• Graduate School Advice - At the bottom of the page there are a series of links to advice on graduate school planning, deciding whether or not you are ready, selecting and evaluating programs, etc.
• Graduate School: Is it for you? - This link includes the same type of planning info as the rest steps in the process, tips on narrowing your search, etc. but it also includes a link to the pros and cons of grad school.
• Careers in Science and Engineering: Student Planning Guide to Grad School and Beyond - The table of contents from a book meant to be used as a planning guide not only for grad school, but also for career planning in general in the sciences. Each item in the table of contents is linked to a web version of the chapter or sub-section of the book. This book includes advice as well as individual profiles that tell for professionals in different fields "how they got where they are".
• Applying to graduate School in Biology - This site has some links that are redundant with those provided here, but it also has some links for specific types of grad programs you might be interested in.
• Careers in Life Sciences - Guides to different specialties and programs within biology ­ pretty specific info for Wash. U. St. Louis students, but good for descriptions of the general fields within biology...
• Specific Graduate School Opportunities
  • Washington University- Evolution, Ecology and Population Biology
  • Univ. of California Riverside - Entomol., Evol. & Ecol.
  • University of Alaska Anchorage-Fairbanks, Evolutionary Biology, Population Genetics, Systematics, Molecular Ecology. Two year fellowships.
  • University of Missouri-St. Louis; Ecology, Evolution and Systematics
  • Ecological Genomics at Kansas State University
  • Brown University, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry.
  • Molecular and Computational Biophysics at Johns Hopkins
  • Wesleyan University, Evolution & Ecology, Cell & Development, Neurobiology & Behavior