July 15 – 19, 2024
Blog Post
Due Friday, July 19:
This is your opportunity to reflect on your DSSRF experience over the past 8 weeks. Please include a link to your project site somewhere in your post.
Monday, July 15
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, HMHC 113
- Group work session
- Carrie and Claire will be available to read through your written work to check for spelling, grammar, and citations.
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM, HMHC 113
- Independent work time
Tuesday, July 16
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
- Independent work time
- Coffee and doughnuts with the L&IT Summer Research programs (DSSRF and the Summer Research Grants)
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM, HMHC Great Room
- Practice presentations
- Fellowships and Scholarships workshop (appetizers and treats starting at 4:00pm)
- “Would you like to be acknowledged for your outstanding achievements and earn a scholarship or fellowship that can help propel you toward your dreams? Learn about how your research and other outstanding achievements can make you a strong candidate for scholarships and fellowships that can help finance graduate school, support a year abroad after you graduate, or launch a career in the foreign service.”
Wednesday, July 17
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, HMHC 113
- Group work session
- Considering a Career in Research & Development workshop (appetizers and treats starting at 4:00pm)
- “Learn about careers in R&D from Bucknell alumnus Michael Ellis, Senior Director of R&D at Johnson Labs in Bar Harbor, ME; Students in STEM fields will find this particularly valuable”
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM, HMHC 113
- Independent work time
- Campus-wide summer research ice cream social! Everyone is welcome for frozen treats, cookies, and candy.
Thursday, July 18
9:15 AM – 12:00 PM, HMHC Great Room
- Final presentations!
- Arrive at 9:30am for set up and sound check.
- Presentations will be from 10:00-11:30, invite your friends and colleagues!
12:00 PM, Gram’s (meet in front of HMHC)
- Celebratory lunch as a group
- Preparing Your Grad School Application workshop (appetizers and treats starting at 4:00pm)
- Have you decided to apply to graduate school, but are struggling with how to do it? This session is for you, especially if you are applying for PhD programs.” Learn about reaching out to possible grad school advisors, crafting statements of purpose, personal statements, and diversity statements, how to choose letters of recommendation, and more.
Friday, July 19
10:00 PM – 12:00 PM, HMHC 113
- Sharing photos and videos of the presentations
- Log in to Mediaspace to view, share, or edit your presentation recording: Bucknell Mediaspace
- See all of our photos from the summer: DSSRF 2024 shared photos folder
- Submitting your projects to the Bucknell Digital Commons
- Feedback survey
- Next steps and wrapping up
2:00 PM, Old Mill Creamery (meet in front of HMHC)
Last day field trip to get ice cream!