In one of her undergraduate courses last semester at UMBC, Kimeya Ghaderi learned about confocal microscopes. But the closest she had gotten to one was a picture in her textbook, until she came to Harvard for a summer research program. Now, she regularly uses the high-tech device in her work for the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. “When I went to get trained on it, I was thinking about how I just learned about confocal microscopes,” she said. “Now I’m using one. It’s amazing. All the stuff you read about in textbooks, you do it here.”
Ghaderi is one of more than 300 undergraduates from across the country who have come to Harvard this summer to pursue research opportunities.
The article, “Learning in the Labs,” ran Thursday, July 22, in the Harvard Gazette Online.
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