Here at the University of Northern Iowa Biology Department we get $500 per
year each to run our labs plus travel to professional meetings. (Having it
automatic is unique to our department, and not everyone uses their
allotment.) The Graduate College will also pay half of air fare for people
who are presenting a paper, and they also have a fund where a person could
occasionally get a couple of hundred dollars for a specific project now and
then. Undergraduates may be awarded up to $500 for research projects, as may
graduate students, so this can keep a lab going here. We do have to spend a
lot of time running around, hat in hand, but then research and efficiency
have nothing to do with each other in PUIs, as far as I can tell.
--Gini Berg
P.S. I passed a bit of green pepper around my nonmajors class the other day,
along with a small magnifying glass. They were happy to have seen cells.
And the orange juice sac question came up, too. Thanks for the ideas.
Today three billion people will eat rice.
The genome is being sequenced.
Virginia Berg (bergv at uni.edu)
Biology Department 0421
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA 50614
(319) 273-2770 (phone), 273-2893 (fax)
http://www.uni.edu/berg
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