31Jan20 - Expectations
Today will be the second meeting of the Rutgers The Geoscience Research At the Cordillera Talamanca (GREAT) Project. Last week, the primary investigator Dr. Vadim Levin asked that the new cohort write out our expectations for research. This will be compared with our future impressions of the program for posterity. This will be my third foray into physics research. The goal of my first project was to investigate the changes instigated in graduate physics departments by introducing APS Bridge Program students into levels of education made otherwise inaccessible to them because of systemic discrimination. Preparation for this research required us to read studies on race and academic culture, train to build and fund research from the grant-proposal stage, and consider methodology for face-to-face interviews with human subjects. At this time this research is on hold, and so I can only say that I've seen such a project in its infancy. Last summer I performed astr