AMERICA'S SCIENCE TEST

Research on Undergraduate Research

By LILA GUTERMAN

Anecdote and accepted wisdom are not enough to back the assertions made about the benefits of doing research as an undergraduate, the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute decided several years ago. So they financed three large research efforts to find out just exactly what those benefits were.

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