Examining the Variations in Undergraduate Students’ Conceptions of Successful Researchers: A Phenomenographic Study

We are grateful to all the study participants for sharing their experiences and perspectives and to the summer bridge director for help in recruiting participants. We thank L. Warnock for conducting the pilot set of interviews, F. Contreras and E. Macagno for feedback on the article, and colleagues at meetings and conferences for providing input. The summer bridge program was supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number IOS-1355045 and the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of California San Diego. Research in this publication was supported in part by an award from the Academic Senate Grant Funding Programs for General Campus Research at the University of California San Diego under award number 058396 and by the National Eye Institute and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health under award number R25NS119707. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, or the University of California. The authors declare no conflict of interest.