Graduate Student Perspectives on the Importance and Difficulty of Finding a Research Group

Join this 52-minute webinar from the American Geosciences Institute where panelists discuss the critical process of finding a research group during graduate studies. Learn how successfully joining a research group can enhance students' sense of belonging and improve retention rates, based on data collected from physics graduate education. The panel features expertise from Rochester Institute of Technology scholars: Dr. Mike Verostek (Post Doctoral Research Associate in the School of Physics and Astronomy), Dr. Ben Zwickl (Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Advancing Scholarship to Transform Learning), and Dr. Casey Miller (Sr. Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs). Discover insights into this understudied yet pivotal milestone on the path to becoming an independent researcher and earning a Ph.D.