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Undergraduate Research

The Queens College Department of Biology values and depends on undergraduate research. Many undergraduate researchers in our Department eventually become skilled enough to contribute intellectually and materially to faculty research projects, or even have semi-independent projects of their own, meriting coauthorship on scientific papers. Becoming a scientist is fun, but challenging! To learn the ropes in general, in terms of principles and practice, including ethics, we strongly recommend that you take BIO200 – Foundations of Biological Research, prior to or early in your undergraduate research career. For more information regarding the undergraduate major in Biology at Queens College, see our Bachelor’s Degrees page. Our undergraduate researchers also include students based in other units, especially the QC Honors Program in Mathematics and Natural Sciences. Likewise, Biology majors can take research credit in other units, such as Psychology, Neuroscience, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Earth & Environmental Sciences.

Panelists

Jonathan Alter is an award-winning author, political analyst, documentary filmmaker, columnist, television producer, and radio host. He is the author of three New York Times best sellers: The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies (2013), The Promise: President Obama, Year One (2010), and The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope (2006), also one of the Times’ Notable Books of the year. Since 1996, Alter has been a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. In 2019, he co-produced and co-directed the HBO documentary, Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists. His new book, His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life, was published in October 2020.

Debby Applegate’s first book, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Her second book, Madam: The Life and Times of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age, is forthcoming from Doubleday in the fall.

Gaiutra Bahadur is an award-winning writer, critic, and journalist. Her book Coolie Woman, a personal 

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