{"id":14553,"date":"2020-03-04T20:38:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T04:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/?p=14553"},"modified":"2020-04-15T15:03:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T22:03:48","slug":"applications-now-open-for-the-2020-summer-undergraduate-gem-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/education-and-outreach\/applications-now-open-for-the-2020-summer-undergraduate-gem-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Applications Now Open for the 2020 Summer Undergraduate GEM Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GEM Course is an\u00a0<strong>all-expenses paid, three-week intensive introductory course<\/strong> in Global Environmental Microbiology (GEM) geared toward early-career undergraduates from 2- and 4-year institutions. The course focuses on microbes found in aquatic environments investigated through authentic research experiences (students collect, process &amp; interpret data). This residential course includes lectures, labs and fieldwork at USC and on Santa Catalina Island.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0University of Southern California campus\u00a0and Santa Catalina Island, CA<br \/>\n<strong>When:<\/strong> \u00a0June 14 \u2013 July 2, 2020<br \/>\n<strong>Who<\/strong>: \u00a0Undergraduates from 2 or 4-year colleges<br \/>\n<strong>Cost:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0FREE, including travel, plus modest stipend<br \/>\n<strong>How to\u00a0apply:\u00a0<\/strong><a class=\"OWAAutoLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/education-diversity\/for-undergraduates\/gem-course\/\">https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/education-diversity\/for-undergraduates\/gem-course\/<\/a><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nNote: \u00a0First generation college, women, and under-represented students encouraged to apply<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Application Deadline:\u00a0 March 25, 2020 at 5:00pm PDT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For questions and comments, contact Gwen Noda\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:slschroe@usc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gnoda@usc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GEM Course is an\u00a0all-expenses paid, three-week intensive introductory course in Global Environmental Microbiology (GEM) geared toward early-career undergraduates from 2- and 4-year institutions. The course focuses on microbes found in aquatic environments investigated through authentic research experiences (students collect, process &amp; interpret data). This residential course includes lectures, labs and fieldwork at USC and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,31],"tags":[],"organization":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14553"}],"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=14553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14556,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14553\/revisions\/14556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14553"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=14553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}