<p>I want to do research in a lab under the cellmolbio department. I have been looking at the website and finding labs that interest me. My question is how do I go about gaining a position in the lab among all of the profs, grad students, and juniors/seniors researching in there? Should I just email the person in charge with my resume saying I'm interested and offer to wash beakers or shadow or something like that? I would like to eventually do actual research, mabe at least over this coming summer in the lab (paid would be nice), so what is the best way that I can do this? (I also would like to, if at all possible, avoid going through UROP)</p>
<p>go through the faculty pages and find people who have research interests you like. then email them. attach ur resume. say if ur doing this for volunteer, paid, work-study, class, etc. say something about their research that you are interested in (make sure it makes u look kind of competent and that that ur not there to wash beakers). the easiest way is to take a research class as credit and email the prof about it. maybe have to email several. taking a class first also builds some credibility and makes them more likely to pay you later on.</p>
<p>I just have to say from my own personal experiences I have found research easily accessible at Umich. Currently I am a senior in high school who has been accepted to LSA yet last summer I was interested in doing research in a lab. So I emailed about 10 labs that interested me and with a convincing letter expressing my passion for research, 8 of the 10 labs emailed me back. Most of these labs were studying aspects related to molecular biology in cancer and the two that rejected me stated that they don't accept undergraduate students at all. So the fact that so many of these labs would accept a high school student with only basic experience (I had been in one lab before this) shows that you don't have to look very hard at Umich to find research positions.</p>
<p>Just wanted to add my piece about the research opps...</p>