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PIs Lynne and Bucheli incorporate undergraduate and graduate students from Sam Houston State University on all aspects of the research process from hypothesis generation to data collection to publication. Our undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to attend national meetings, give oral and poster presentations, author publications in peer-reviewed journals, co-author book chapters, and participate in local and branch societies. They are researchers on the ground, just like their professors!

Sam Houston State University is a Research in Undergraduate Institution with a history of successful teacher-as-scholar pedagogy, especially in the Department of Biological Sciences. The university caters to the local demographic and has a primarily first generation and minority undergraduate student body. Currently 16.3% of undergraduate and graduate students are African-American and 15.6% are Hispanic, while the majority of students are first generation (50%), female (58.0%), low income (80%).

 

PIs Dr. Sibyl Bucheli and Dr. Aaron Lynne with our invaluable team of student reachers (left to right): Lauren Smith, Keli Kig, Raymond Berry, Kristyn Olsen, Dalton Plummer, Heather Deel, Blake Munoz, Cullen Lyles, Christine Woelfel-Monsivais, Laura Paez, Aaron Winton; (center): Jacquelyn Vasquez.