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A Unique and Scalable Model for Increasing Research Engagement, STEM Persistence, and Entry into Doctoral Programs

Nadia Sellami

Undergraduate Research Center–Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095

^‡Present address: Department of Medical Education, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90089.

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Brit Toven-Lindsey

Center for the Advancement of Teaching, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095

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Marc Levis-Fitzgerald

Center for the Advancement of Teaching, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095

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Paul H. Barber

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095

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Tama Hasson

*Address correspondence to: Tama Hasson (E-mail Address: [email protected]).

Undergraduate Research Center–Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095

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Graham Hatfull, Monitoring Editor

Published Online:18 Feb 2021https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.20-09-0224

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Submitted: 1 October 2020

Revised: 20 November 2020

Accepted: 24 November 2020

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© 2021 N. Sellami et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2021 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).

The PEERS program is indebted to C. Buchanan and R. Weiss for their vision and leadership and to the PEERS advisory board members for their guidance. We thank the Division of Undergraduate Education at UCLA for their ongoing support of the PEERS Program. Research was supported by an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award number R25GM055052. Prior work on this project was supported by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Science Education Grant (Eiserling, principal investigator). This research was approved by UCLA’s Institutional Review Board (IRB no. 11.000049).

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