{"id":12069,"date":"2017-12-07T13:50:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T21:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/?p=12069"},"modified":"2017-12-30T11:44:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T19:44:42","slug":"priceless-experience-for-young-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/press\/priceless-experience-for-young-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Priceless Experience for Young Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At some institutions, graduate students are the driving force in creating the high-school research programs. A decade ago, two graduate students in earth sciences at the University of Southern California created the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youngresearchers.usc.edu\/\">Young Researchers Program,\u00a0<\/a>which is still run by graduate students today [and supported by C-DEBI!]. The program had its biggest class last summer, when 15 local students, nearly all from low-income families, were paired up with Ph.D. candidates as mentors.\u00a0&#8220;At the beginning, a few of them can barely look you in the eye,&#8221; says <strong>Erin McParland<\/strong>, the program\u2019s coordinator and a Ph.D. candidate in marine and environmental biology. &#8220;By the end of the summer, they\u2019re able to explain all the science they\u2019ve done really well. That confidence they gain really helps spur them on to get a four-year degree.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some institutions, graduate students are the driving force in creating the high-school research programs. A decade ago, two graduate students in earth sciences at the University of Southern California created the\u00a0Young Researchers Program,\u00a0which is still run by graduate students today [and supported by C-DEBI!]. The program had its biggest class last summer, when 15&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"organization":[389],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12072,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12069\/revisions\/12072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12069"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=12069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}