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The Tracy Undergraduate Team Science Training Program (TTP) provides applied research training for undergraduate students engaged with research themes at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. This program is made possible through generous financial support from Mark Tracy, a biopharmaceutical product development executive with 20 years of scientific, managerial, business, and alliance leadership experience. 

Enrollment limited! Deadline for Applications: Friday, August 2

Learn more and apply here!

 

Participants will engage in a series of 10 specially designed activities over the course of an academic year, including workshops, seminars and a corporate site visit, to develop skills that foster collaboration, communication, and innovation while also building professional networks. Upon completing the program, participants will receive a team science training certificate that will enhance their credentials as a team science researcher.

Program Benefits

  • Work with leaders in the field to develop the types of critical team science skills prized in industry, including collaboration, communication, and innovation 
  • Build your professional network with scientists from industry and academia
  • Complete a new credential in the form of a team science training certificate

Program Components
Seminars

  • Introduction to interdisciplinary research at the IGB
  • Case Study: Collaboration Across the Research Enterprise in Health & Wellness
  • Case Study: Collaboration Across the Research Enterprise in Agriculture & Energy

Workshops

  • Giving an effective scientific presentation
  • Communicating science across cultural divisions
  • Academia-Industry Case Study Workshop: Interdisciplinary Team-Based Research in Agriculture & Energy
  • Academia-Industry Case Study Workshop: Interdisciplinary Team-Based Research in Health & Wellness

Events

  • Site visit to industry partner laboratory or production facility
  • Industry career panel
  • Celebration of learning outcomes and awarding of certificates

 

For more information contact:


Tracy Parish

Director of External Relations and Strategic Partnerships

tparish@illinois.edu
(217) 265-0880