Prospective Volunteers

Interested undergraduate volunteers are welcome to contact Mary (oconnor@zoology.ubc.ca). Please state your research interests and goals, any prior experience, and why you are interested in working for the lab. 

Prospective Graduate Students

If you’re interested in applying to work with me, here is an overview of my expectations, and what I will explore as we chat about grad school:​

1. You have done research and have some written product. Could be a report or thesis, but ideally is co-authorship on a paper. 
   
2. You can articulate why you want to go to grad school, why you want to join my group, and what are your thoughts for after grad school.
   
3. You can discuss one or two research problems that really interest you and that you have thought about.
   
4. You can work independently yet also can be an active contributor to our lab group.
   
   

Please email your CV, transcripts, and a statement of your research interests to oconnor@zoology.ubc.ca.

​If you are looking for more information about grad school in general, please check out this blog post on "The unwritten rules of getting in and getting on in grad school".