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Students gain new skills, career trajectories in funded research experience
(Editor’s note: This personal account was written by Dr. Shelby S. J. Putt, an assistant professor of Anthropology.) When I was an undergraduate, I conducted an independent research study. This experience catapulted me into graduate school. It is one of …