Earning Criteria

• Earners will be taught and required to demonstrate proper laboratory and animal research techniques. Techniques include pipetting; proper rodent handling, care, and restraint; systemic injections; anesthesia; humane euthanasia; and tissue collection for analysis.
• Earners will work within small groups to design and conduct an experiment investigating a research question that interests them. Groups will formulate a hypothesis, propose an experimental design, collect data, create graphs, and perform basic statistical analysis.
• The skills learned and experimental results will be compiled into a poster or PowerPoint presentation. This will serve as the final report and a way to express the data. Earners will be coached on presentations and scientific communication of their results.
• The badge will take 1 semester to complete. We will meet as a group (12 participants per semester max will be accepted) on Wednesday afternoons from 1- 4 pm.
• Prerequisites: Participants must complete CITI rodent laboratory training (information on how to do this will be provided).
• Apply to be accepted into next semester's badge program.
• If you have questions, please email: behaviorcore@une.edu