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Sports medicine majors are encouraged to participate in the Honors Research
Program, which is designed to provide insight into how scientists develop
hypotheses; design experiments; collect, analyze, and interpret data; and present
and disseminate their findings to the scientific community.
Students apply to the
program during the first semester of their junior year and are admitted to the
program based upon grade point average, recommendations, a personal essay,
career goals, and potential for successful completion of the program. Students
are selected by a committee at mid-semester and, upon acceptance, develop
research proposals in close consultation with a faculty member. After proposals
are reviewed and approved by the committee, students begin preliminary
experimentation. All students are expected to spend the second semester of their
junior year, and possibly the summer between their junior and senior years,
in data collection. The senior year is spent analyzing the data and preparing
an honors thesis. To complete the program, students must present their data
in thesis form to the examining committee. After successful completion of an
oral thesis defense, the committee recommends that the student’s transcript
and diploma be marked “Honors in Sports Medicine.” It is expected that thesis
projects will also be presented at local and national meetings and be published
in national and international scientific journals. |
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