This Week in the OpenLab: April 30th Edition!

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Happy May!

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Upcoming Workshops

We have two faculty workshops on Wednesday of this week!  Come!  Learn!

We’re also having a student showcase on Thursday at 1pm.  Here you can learn about all the great things students are doing on the OpenLab, and develop ideas for your own projects.

 

RSVP here!

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OpenLab Statistics!

We posted this elsewhere on The Open Road last week, but we’re going to repost it here, since we’re so very proud.  These are the statistics for the OpenLab over the last three months:

Number of users broken down by students, faculty, staff:

Students: 5654

Faculty: 353

Staff: 68

Number of courses, projects, clubs, portfolios:

Courses: 457

Projects: 966

Clubs: 39

Portfolios: 783

Pageviews (for past quarter):706,885
Average visit duration (for past quarter):7:16
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Featured Site:  Undergraduate Research

This week we’re featuring the Undergraduate Research project, dedicated to bringing students and faculty together to do research.  It gives students a chance to gain credit, get close to a professor, and improve their resumes, and it gives professors a unique way to passing on knowledge and skills, discover with students, support their professional discipline, and apply for grants targeted to undergraduate institutions.

As the home page of the site says:

“One of the unique opportunities as a college student is to participate in research with faculty members. The faculty at City Tech are actively engaged in research in such fields as  anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, communication, health sciences, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, physics, psychology, robotics,  sociology, and theater. Most people learn about these fields only through books, magazine articles, television and museums – long after research has actually been completed.  Students who participate in undergraduate research opportunities get to see knowledge being created!”

You can find more about the project here if you’re a student, and if you’re a faculty member interested in mentoring a student, you can find out more here.

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