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Zuhair:is the Spartan Transfer Hub brought to you by Impact eighty nine FM and MSU Transfer Student Success Here's what we've got for you today. Hi everyone. Welcome back to today's episode of the Spartan Transfer Hub, the podcast about all things related to MSU Transfer Students brought to you by the MSU Transfer Student Success Center, also known as TSSC. I'm your host, Zuhay Oronne. I'm a rising senior studying in mechanical engineering.
Zuhair:I'm from Bangladesh. I use hehim pronouns. And with me today in the studio is our TSSC director, program coordinator, and grad assistant as usual. But we are also joined by the assistant director of undergraduate research here at MSU. Would you all be able to introduce yourselves a little bit and tell us about what you do at MSU?
Brittney:Hi, everyone. My name is Brittney Garichow Finch. My pronouns are sheher. I am the Assistant Director for Undergraduate Research at MSU. I'm also finishing my PhD, so if you have questions about grad school ever, you can always contact me.
Brittney:But I mostly help on our programs and I'll talk a little bit about what we do in our Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity.
Charles:All right. Thank you, Britney. My name is Doctor. Charles Jackson, and I am the director of the Transfer Student Success Center. I use hehimhis pronouns.
Charles:And I've been in my position for about three years, and I was a former transfer student to MSU. And shout out to you, Britney, for going after your doctorate. I completed my doctorate here at MSU.
Ashley:Nice. Hey. Hey, everybody. This is Ashley Hewlett Lemke. She, her,
Ashley:her pronouns. I'm the program coordinator with the Transfer Student Success Center. I was a transfer student back in the day, came from Washtenaw Community College and transferred to Michigan State. And so, yeah, I'm I'm a Spartan through and through.
Lauren:My name is Lauren Sargent. I use she, her pronouns. I am in my last year of my master's program here at MSU in student affairs administration, and I'm also working as the graduate assistant for TSSC.
Zuhair:Thank you all for those introductions. This is the second episode of our mini series on high impact practices. For our listeners who may be new or need a refresher, a high impact practice or HIP is a way of teaching and learning that has significant educational benefits for students. Today, we're going to be talking about undergraduate research, a high impact practice that is quite sought after. But first, I have a question for all of you today.
Zuhair:And, basically, I'm wondering because all of us here are such opinionated people.
Charles:I wanna know. I dare.
Zuhair:I wanna know if you had to teach a class about anything that you wanted to, anything at all, what would the topic be?
Ashley:So I'm actually a teacher through and through. My bachelor's and my master's are both in teaching English as a second language. Unfortunately, would not choose to teach that because if I got my choice, I think I would choose music culture. I actually just went to warped tour for the first time and I was living my best life. I wanted to go in middle school but I was always too young and my parents wouldn't let me.
Ashley:So yeah, would definitely be like pop punk music culture.
Lauren:I have so many questions about warped. Yeah.
Ashley:After undergraduate research, my favorite topic is warped tours.
Charles:Alright. Well, I think for me, this is an easy one. The class that I would teach would be a class on how to barbecue because not to just, you know, pump myself up, but I am. I am the barbecue pit master. So I love the barbecue.
Charles:I love the smoke, any type of meat. So if I had a chance to teach a class, it would be a class on how to barbecue. And I'm talking charcoal barbecue, not the gas grill, which is just so easy. I'm talking about old school. Let's put in the charcoal, maybe even, put in some, smoke planks in in there too.
Charles:So, yeah, that would be the class that I would I would teach.
Zuhair:So in this hypothetical scenario, I would wanna join that class. But in a more real life scenario, I think we all deserve an invite to one of your
Charles:Oh, most definitely. Most definitely. Yeah. And you wouldn't have to pay or or anything like that. Yeah.
Charles:Absolutely.
Ashley:My husband just got a charcoal grill, and he's used it once because he's not at Julio, I'm sorry. He's not very good at barbecue.
Charles:Okay. Well, I will come over and and teach that course.
Ashley:Thank you. Thank you. A nice master class would be great.
Speaker 5:That's awesome. So yeah. Dinner at doctor Charles house for for the weekend. I actually interesting that yeah. You you're you have a professional background in English as a second language.
Speaker 5:That's what my master's degree is in, and that's actually what brought me back to working at Michigan State, working with our English language learning community here at MSU. Kind of in a similar vein. Like, I, you know, in my core, I'm a language teacher, and I love languages. So this one's kind of an interesting one because my Hungarian language skills are not very good, but being in a classroom and trying to teach other people is a good way to reinforce your your own knowledge about something. So maybe a silly answer, but I would probably wanna try and teach Hungarian just so that I can try and improve my own Hungarian skills.
Ashley:No. That's really cool.
Lauren:That's really
Zuhair:I did not know that you speak Hungarian.
Speaker 5:I don't speak Hungarian. I'm a siege.
Lauren:Like, well, if I teach it, then
Speaker 5:it reinforces what I'm flimpering. So there's, yeah.
Ashley:Spoken like a true ESL teacher. Yeah. I only learned English because I taught it. So Yeah.
Lauren:Exactly. Exactly. Mine's I would teach like Greek mythology. Was a big like Percy Jackson kid and so I think I would I know so much about it. I would just get to do all my special interests, but tell it to other people.
Lauren:That's cool. Would
Ashley:be really fun.
Zuhair:That's pretty cool. I mean, I guess because we're being candid, I wanna say that I'm I'm a soccer fan through and through. I used to be a soccer player. So if I had to teach a class about anything that I wanted to, I would teach everybody about how Lionel Messi is the greatest soccer player ever to have existed. I will not take any arguments.
Zuhair:And if you join my class, I'd tell you that you wouldn't have any arguments on that as well. And so I know it's a little bit specific here, but, hey. We're all pretty
Lauren:You've half lost of our audience. Fernado fans are they're raging.
Zuhair:No. If anything, they'll listen to this podcast even more and more if they wanna disagree with me even more and more. But yes.
Ashley:True. The comment section could be going.
Lauren:Yeah. Exactly.
Ashley:I also saw Messi was on a Lowe's commercial last night. He was. And I was really shocked because I was like, wait, is that messy? And then I said that, and my friend who doesn't watch soccer was like, what do you mean? Is that messy?
Ashley:Now it looks clean. And I
Lauren:was like, no.
Ashley:Yeah. They don't messy. Yeah.
Zuhair:No. He's getting that bag. The US marketing is looking wonders for him.
Ashley:Yes. I am.
Zuhair:And like like I told our audiences, we are all pretty opinionated here, and we love it. Moving on, I think a good starting point for talking about undergraduate research is just talking about what it is. Brittany, would you be able to describe undergraduate research to someone who might be unfamiliar?
Ashley:Yeah. So like I said at the beginning, our office is called Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity. So I would first just start by saying when you think about undergraduate research, please don't only think about people in lab coats. Yeah, we do have a good chunk of our students who wear lab coats and do the micro pipetting and things like that. But we also have some really cool students who do research in music.
Ashley:I myself am a humanities person, so I do eye tracking, is a little more STEM focused, but my research is with adults who have low literacy, so I get to be in classrooms instead of in a lab. So I guess just think about how your hobbies, your interest at school, all of those things kind of align, and you can use that to work in interdisciplinary research, or you can stick with your major too, and that's totally fine. But I guess just know that undergraduate research is a little bit more broad than you're probably thinking.
Zuhair:That's awesome. Thank you for sharing that. How does the Office of Undergraduate Research help students find these research opportunities?
Ashley:Yeah, so we have a couple of different programs. We do workshops throughout the year. They've been online kind of in the past just as a artifact of COVID, but we're starting to get more in person activities happening now. So we have workshops that range from finding research opportunities, what is undergraduate research, so kind of teaching you how to think about your interests and things like that. We also have summer research opportunities, workshops, writing abstracts, so if you actually get into a research position, what you can do with the research that you're doing.
Ashley:And then on top of that, we also have the Pathway to Research program, which is kind of what I advertise as our starting point because that's where you can really just figure out if undergraduate research is for you. So that program is a free four week program. This fall, it's gonna be in person again for the first time in, I don't know, since it started, I think. And what you do is the first whole week is just you figuring out what you're interested in. You get paired with a peer advisor and you basically attend like a one hour session once every week for four weeks.
Ashley:So our program is once a week for four weeks, and that's the big session. So you'll be in a session with me, I'll talk you through the different steps. The first week is just orientation, getting acclimated. The second week will actually get into the resources at MSU, so we have things like MSU Scholars, Google Scholar, all of that fun stuff that we teach you how to use and how to leverage that for your specific major. And your peer advisor that you get paired with will actually help you walk through all of those things.
Ashley:And then we teach you how to write an email to a professor asking about their research. We also help you build a resume to actually, like, specifically to get a research position. And then we also have interview tips. So when you actually sit down with a faculty member, what you can ask them to figure out if your interests actually align. So that's usually where I tell people to start.
Ashley:If that does sound like too much because I know especially for our transfer students, they get a lot of stuff thrown at them at the very beginning. We also have peer advising appointments that our ambassadors lead and they're also the people who lead our workshops. They're undergraduate students who are advanced. They've done research before and you can basically sit down and ask them any question you have about undergraduate research. So that's also a really good starting point.
Zuhair:Pursuing undergraduate research with your office also allows students to gain a mentor, right? And you touched up a little bit on that mentor mentee relationship. What kind of benefits can come from these relationships, would you say?
Ashley:Yeah. So I think when people typically think about undergraduate research, they usually really think about the fact that you'll get into grad school or things like that. Like, it's something to put on your resume. But I think one of the biggest pieces is really developing that mentor mentee relationship because it really allows you to get involved with people that you might not have gotten involved with. Because it might not be a professor that you had a class with, it might be someone outside of that, it could be someone outside of your major, outside of your college even.
Ashley:And I think that that really opens the door to bigger networking opportunities. And especially if you are thinking about things like grad school, you can get letters of recommendation. Those mentors can really just show you how to be a researcher, and that's really critical. And we see that a lot in grad school, but if you can start something like that in undergrad, I think that makes a really big difference in your studies.
Zuhair:Absolutely. And as someone who has tried to get into undergraduate research and have had so many of my friends being involved in it. I want to appreciate how much you guys are doing for students because a lot of times it's very daunting to even get started in this kind of a thing. And so like you mentioned, these relationships between a mentor and a mentee can work wonders, and I have to appreciate you guys for that. What are some other benefits that can that might be overlooked that students can get from doing undergraduate research?
Ashley:Yeah. So I think a lot of the soft skills that you develop through undergraduate research I know that that kind of sounds like an answer. Everybody says like, oh, you can develop soft skills from this. But truly, like, presentation skills is the biggest thing that I gained through undergraduate research when I did it. And we just really focus in on that.
Ashley:So like I said, we have the writing abstracts one, but we also presenting workshops, like teaching you what to focus on through a poster presentation and an oral presentation, especially when we get to like our showcases, which I'll talk about in a little bit. But yeah, those ones I think are the biggest benefits that we kind of overlook. And then, yeah, just the time management skills. I hear time and time again when I'm talking to especially our undergraduate research ambassadors. They really learn how to keep a calendar and how to make appointments and shift their schedule around and prioritize, which I think is really important, even if you don't go to grad school, if you just go straight to the job market, which is a totally valid avenue, I will also say as someone who's going to grad school.
Ashley:It truly is helpful. It's a game changer.
Zuhair:Absolutely. And getting a little bit into the process of it all, would you say there are any differences in the process of getting involved in research for a transfer student in comparison to what many would call quote unquote a traditional student?
Ashley:Yeah, so a tiny bit. I would say that the caveat for transfer students is just get involved early. As we know, students have less time with us. So what we usually encourage our transfer students to do is we just want them to try the Pathway to Research program or try to make an appointment, with our ambassadors or even just attend a workshop and try it out. I always say that our resources are always there, but it's good to kind of go through those programs, learn what your options are, and then you can decide if it's actually for you.
Ashley:Because if you go through it, then you'll have kind of a head start and you know, okay, at least I have these list of faculty members that I'll be, reaching out to. And then if you decide after all that you don't have time for undergraduate research, you can totally like, that's totally valid. But I would say at least try to get involved at first. That way, have the resources available when you decide so that it's a little bit earlier. But we also do a couple of special things for our transfer students like when we have our Pathway to Research program, we have a specific cohort that you can go through, because our bigger section, so say we have a 100 students, we call them cohorts when they're in like groups of 10, with their peer advisor.
Ashley:And we can, you can self select into a transfer student cohort. So you can be with other transfer students, talk to those specific, people who have had that experience. And like Ashley was saying, like she was a transfer student. So you just kind of know the different avenues that are available to you as a transfer student. So those are the biggest things.
Ashley:I would say definitely self select into the things that are gonna benefit you the most, but also get involved early.
Zuhair:Absolutely. And coming back to a little bit about what you said, in experience or if you were to give advice, do you think that transfer students should particularly go into a cohort with other transfer students? Or would you say that they're better off going into cohorts with different students where they might meet people outside of their realm?
Ashley:Yeah. I mean, think that's a good question and I would leave it up to you. I would say though, if it were me, would probably select to go with the other transfer students especially because usually the person that's the peer advisor for those transfer students was also a transfer student. So then they can kind of help you navigate that situation a little bit better And they might know a couple of tips and tricks that I don't know, for example, just not being a transfer student. So, yeah, I say always go with what your heart feels.
Ashley:If you feel like you would rather develop new relationships, go for suggestion would be, yeah, to join the transfer student ones.
Zuhair:I'm glad that you bring up these subtopics because I feel it is very important for us to acknowledge that transfer students may have a variety of unique unique needs when it comes to university at large, but also in managing their schedules. We have students who are full time caregivers or may work multiple jobs or have other obligations that take up a lot of their time outside of classes. Are there ways that your office can support these students if they are interested in participating in undergrad research?
Ashley:Yeah, that's a great question. So we have a couple of different things that we do to kind of make sure that this fits into your schedule. We don't want undergraduate research to ever compete with making money or with your classes or your family. That's not what we want. So one of the things that we do kind of initially is when you sign up for the Pathway to Research program, for example, you can email me and tell me like our session times don't work with your schedule.
Ashley:So if those four meeting times where we're all together, if you can't make those work, we do record them and we post everything on D2L. So it's basically like a class, but it's free. And you can watch those and then you can just have more meetings with your peer advisor if you want to kind of compensate for that and help you go through the program without having to fit in those specific time slots if those don't work. Typically, our time slots are Monday nights from six to seven p. M.
Ashley:And I know if you have a job outside of class time, that kind of interferes with that. So again, yeah, you can watch those recordings, you can attend more peer advising appointments, and we'll kind of work with you to make sure that your schedule can work around what we're doing. And then we've also had students who have gone through in the summer, so we also have summer programs because sometimes schedules are a little different in the summer. We do two cohorts typically in the summer. So one is an MSU only cohort.
Ashley:So if you're just transferring in, you would be eligible for that. But we also have one specific to transfer students that we've typically had LCC students that go through, and that one is a little bit less time intensive because the meetings aren't required. So if you can make them work, that's great. The session times, we do encourage everybody to be at. But, again, we can make that work with your schedule.
Ashley:Like, we've had people who can't meet any of the, session times.
Charles:When you mentioned LCC, that's Lansing Community College, which is right down the road, from MSU. Just wanted to just let all of our our folks know about that. Yes. Thank you, Britney, for for giving insights into how we can support transfer students who have, like, different obligations outside of of the classroom.
Ashley:Yeah. Thank you for clarifying that. I always get into the MSU acronym situation.
Speaker 5:Don't we all?
Ashley:We've got so many. I don't even remember what things stand for anymore.
Lauren:So I'm
Ashley:glad that you brought that up. Thank you, doctor Jackson. But yeah. And then I would just say too, when you do get into a research position because that's also a big concern, right? You have to make time for I think typically people work ten hours a week in a research position.
Ashley:You can work less, you can work more. But there's also a concern of obviously that kind of overlapping with your other responsibilities. So we do, if you go through the Pathway to Research program, we have funding where we make sure that you get paid for doing research and we try to make that a competitive rate. So the person who hires you in to do research has to pay you at the rate that we say, to get the funding so that we make sure you're getting what you would get hopefully for working a job. And that way, at least, hopefully, maybe you can use that as your job and not have as many overlapping responsibilities.
Ashley:But yeah, so that's a couple of things that we do. But again, I would just say kind of try it out. You can always make things work for you. And I think faculty members are really, really good about working around people's schedules for the most part. And that's the nice thing about research too, is it doesn't typically have to happen at a specific time of day.
Ashley:So yeah, I would just keep that in mind as you're considering undergraduate research. I know your schedule might sound too busy and it might be and that's totally okay. But I would also kind of think of how you can fit it in and how flexible it can be once you actually get into an opportunity.
Lauren:I just wanna say how much I love the, like, thought and effort that you put in and into including the transfers community here at MSU. And not that it's like, you know, I don't wanna see make it seem like the bar is like on the floor. But like it is just like it is nice to see other, like, our partner departments kind of reaching out to transfer students and making cohorts for transfer students. Think that's that's a very nice thing to see from like us who work with transfer students all the time.
Ashley:Yeah. Thank you. I have to shout out Doctor. Karine Morczynski. She's our assistant dean.
Ashley:She actually was involved in the starting of the Pathway to Research program. She's absolutely amazing at kind of making sure everybody feels included and yeah, just starting that transfer student initiative. So yeah, we're hoping to have more programming soon for transfer students actually, but we're waiting on a grant. So we'll see if we got that and then hopefully we can get some other things started. But yeah, we love our transfer students.
Zuhair:Absolutely. And I'm hopeful for the grant. And again, my gratitude to how much you guys do for students who sometimes might feel that there is a lot of responsibilities that might hinder their progression as students. Obviously a lot of gratitude to you guys. I want to ask a little bit about some of the research projects.
Zuhair:I'm sure that working with so many students doing research, you've seen a lot of interesting research proposals. What are some examples of research projects that have kind of stood out or you have found to be interesting that you've seen students do?
Ashley:Mhmm. Yeah, great question. So I would the one that's coming to the top of my mind was actually something that I think just recently happened in the spring. But someone sent out a survey and it was about the menstrual products on campus of people's access. Yeah, you probably got the emails.
Ashley:But yeah, so I think that that's a really good example of a very practical thing that you might not think about being undergraduate research, but that was an undergraduate student who was helping do that. So that's one really good example. There's also just been really cool things with gaming. So people will do like user experience things, with video games. More STEM related, I was recently talking to one of our ambassadors, and they're doing research on locusts, which I also learned can be grasshoppers grasshoppers.
Ashley:And I did not know that those were, like, grasshoppers are locusts, but locusts I don't know. That's too stemmed for me as a human. But so they can smell endometriosis, which I think is absolutely amazing because it's so hard to diagnose. Undergraduate researchers are doing that. Like, that is so cool.
Ashley:Have a picture of him holding a grasshopper on one of our banners that we just got. So, yeah, I mean, there's just such cool stuff to get involved in and really, it does, like, fully range whatever your interests are. We had a student, I think in the fall semester who went through our UGS course which we also have one of those every fall. I think we also have it in the spring now too. But if you want like a credit bearing experience for undergraduate research, we have kind of a longer version of the Pathway to Research program.
Ashley:So we had a student who was interested in horse whispering and at MSU, don't have someone who does that, but we do have someone who was working on like behavioral things with animals. So they got involved and were able to kind of get connected through that person. So really it runs the whole gambit of you can find someone who does what you wanna do. And it might not be direct but yeah, I think it the only stopping point is just your imagination of what you want to get involved in.
Zuhair:It's astounding how remarkable some of these undergraduate student research projects can be. And I am just so grateful to the opportunity. I'm so grateful for the opportunity for undergraduate students to come showcase their creativity, their analytical thinking, because these things that you mentioned, the menstrual products as well as the locus thing, these are things that, you know, like, come from a great amount of thought behind it. And the fact that we, in MSU and you guys with your department, are giving the students the chance to showcase their creativity, showcase how their mind works, and give them a platform to do for the society what they actually have always thought of doing but never knew how to. I think it's really remarkable, and I'm just very grateful as a student to you, to MSU as a whole, for letting students be that way and be themselves.
Zuhair:One of the most exciting parts of doing this kind of research is getting to share the work that you do. What can students expect as far as showcasing their work in your office?
Ashley:Yeah. So I mentioned this a little bit earlier. We have two different showcases where students can present their work. So one happens in April, that's our biggest one. It happens every year.
Ashley:This year, we had over, I think, 1,200 students presenting their work, so that's crazy, and it was super impressive just to see all of the really cool projects there. So for that one, we always have support workshops when you're going to be presenting. We tell you how to make a poster, we show you templates for making a poster because I know it can be a little intimidating, especially once you've gone through all of this, like, getting involved in the research, you've done the research, and now you're kind of like, oh, no, how do I tell people about this? So we kind of walk you through that process. We have a lot of workshops that help you do that.
Ashley:The other thing too is we have our mid sure showcase that happens in the summer. So that's coming up in July. It's a little bit smaller. It usually is the summer research program. So that includes students from MSU and from other colleges.
Ashley:But yeah, we have I think last year we had 700 students that presented their work in the summer too.
Charles:Okay. Brittany, could you, give us the name of that showcase in April? I think that there is a specific name for for for that one because I know it happens annually.
Ashley:Yes. Thank you for that. It's called URAF. So it's the University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum. And this year, actually, I'm glad that you made me say the name because we have the arts forum part.
Ashley:We've still been really working with our arts people on how to make that accessible for them and how to best fit it with what they do because arts can look a bunch of different ways. So this year, we had, I think, eight films or six films online, which was really cool. And then we also had an art showcase at the actual forum, which was in the Breslin. So we had some sculptures. There was, I think, a book there.
Ashley:We had clothes that were on mannequins, so it was really cool. But all of that to say too, I want to make sure that we fit all of our research into those showcases that we do. So if you do a project and you think it doesn't fit at one of our showcases, please reach out because we can figure out how to make that work. But yeah, so those are our two showcases. We also have our neighborhood posters.
Ashley:So in I think I don't know how many neighborhoods there are at MSU, do you guys?
Charles:We have
Ashley:Five? Seven?
Lauren:Five? Five. Five. Should know this and I don't. I don't even know.
Ashley:So, yeah, at our neighborhoods, we have posters that kind of get swapped out every semester. Usually, people donate those from our showcases. We also get undergraduate research researchers across campus, that donate their posters for us to hang up. So you can always see the poster, but even more importantly, can kind of see a little blurb about who did that poster, which I think is really cool because we wanna recognize our undergraduate researchers. So yeah, also if you have research ever that you want to show MSU, we're happy to showcase that too.
Zuhair:Absolutely. And in my experience, or in my opinion at least, it's exhilarating to have your research showcased at these showcases, but it's also so interesting as to go observe these researches being done. So anybody who's not already a part of a research can go to these showcases, and there's just so much inspiration there that you might find that might help you in your pursuit of undergraduate research.
Lauren:Yeah. I saw one in, like, a poster at McDonald the other day, and it was, like, narcissism in the film Mean Girls or something. Yeah. And me and a couple of the other grads were just like, like, like, it's just so cool. Like, how do students come up with they're so talented.
Lauren:Absolutely. It's
Zuhair:Absolutely. Gotta love the students, right? If a student is listening to this episode and they think that they might be interested in doing research, but they feel like it might be too much work or they're still a little bit hesitant to reach out. What do you want them to hear?
Ashley:Yeah. So I would just say consider how undergraduate research would work for you and know that it can fit into your schedule if you want to do it. Because I think that that's the biggest thing like we talked about. Everybody, especially transfer students, have all of these other responsibilities. So just know that you fit into undergraduate research and that you can start with even just a thirty minute appointment with somebody at our office or you can start with just an email to me, and we can kind of help you figure that out together.
Ashley:It's not all on you to help to get that figured out. And it's just not a solo process. I think that's the great thing about research too. Like we talked about mentors. That's the biggest piece of this, right?
Ashley:We don't want anybody going through this alone because people have done it before. And why should we reinvent the wheel? Which was also research, so.
Zuhair:And if one of our listeners right now want to get involved, where would they go for more information?
Ashley:Yeah. Great question. So our website will be linked, but it's just irka.msu.edu. We've got a couple of different pages. We're working on our website, so I'm sorry if it's a little hard to navigate.
Ashley:But right now, if you go to the about page, our ambassadors are linked there so you can see who they are, and you can also schedule one of those thirty minute appointments that I mentioned there. And then if you go to our contact page, my information's there, our general email is there. So that's kind of where you can find everything. And then our events page has all of our workshops and things. And then if you go to the find page, you can find the Pathway to Research program there and there's a link to sign up.
Zuhair:Perfect. That was such a great description. I feel like I just did all of that in my mind.
Charles:So
Zuhair:thank you for that. Is there any last piece of advice or any last thoughts you wanna share with our listeners today, Brittany?
Ashley:Yeah. I think, just again, know that undergraduate research can fit for you, and don't be afraid to ask questions and reach out. Even if you don't reach out to our office, if you feel more comfortable talking to a faculty member or Ashley or Doctor. Jackson, reach out to someone, And even if that's a student, they can point you in the right direction. But yeah, also just know that we're here to help you.
Ashley:So like I said, we've got some things hopefully that help our transfer students, but if there are other accommodations that you need, please feel free to reach out and kind of give us ideas. We're always open to changing things to better fit the students that we work with.
Zuhair:Absolutely. Thank you so much, Brittany, for joining us today. Thank you, Doctor. Jackson, Ashley, and Lauren for sitting in with us. With that, we're going to be wrapping up this episode of the Spartan Transfer Hub.
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Charles:Go white! Thanks
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