For Undergraduates

As an undergraduate in the Rau lab, your first priority is school. We are happy to have you and excited for you to progress in your experimental skills, but your degree responsibilities come first. The lab supports your efforts to succeed scholastically at UNC, and working in the lab should enhance those efforts, not detract from them. If you can be successful in school AND have time to work in the lab, while you are here you are expected to:

• Ask Questions. Cultivate your curiosity about what you are working on, why you are being taught something, how what you are doing fits into the larger picture, and make sure you clear up any confusion before starting a task

• Actively participate in group meetings as you can.

• Remain focused and task-oriented while working

• Contribute to lab chores

• Represent the lab. You are now an ambassador for the lab as well as a member. Our reputation will be partially formed by how you interact with your colleagues. Treat them with respect and integrity.

• Have fun and get excited about science!