We thank Dean Carol Richardson for her support of this project through internal grants, Charles Tatum for help with assessment design, and Mike Kirkpatrick for help with statistical methodology. We also thank the ASM Biology Scholars Research Residency 2015 Cohort instructors and participants for valuable feedback and advice of the project. This project would not have been possible without the help of Michael Maxwell, Goran Bozinovic, Nima Salimi, and Gregory Borman.