Bridging the Gap
Tiara Lacey (BBS Student) crossed the chasm from undergraduate biology major to PhD research scientist thanks to a Harvard research program. Now she helps others do the same.
Tiara Lacey already had an impressive academic resume when she participated in Harvard’s Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program (SHURP) in 2017: undergraduate biology major at Spelman College with work in the labs of Morehouse College as well; Biomedical Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow at Yale; summer research experience at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Nevertheless, she says that SHURP was where she learned to become truly fluent in the language of science.
“Every subfield has their own terms,” she says. “When you’re an undergraduate trying to raise your knowledge set to the graduate level, it’s a big chasm to jump across. SHURP is where I learned the language and the methods for doing high-level science at a research one university.”
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