The Get Into Research event is designed to present the multitude of research opportunities available across campus to undergraduate students. Included in the event were the personal experiences and inspirational accounts of student researchers, workshops outlining the preliminary steps of exploring research opportunities, as well as tours of different labs on campus.
PCIGR graduate students Catherine Armstrong and Evelyn Freres led two groups of undergraduate students on tours of the nUBC facility. The students learned about the operation of a large-scale facility, different ways of determining the composition of rocks and minerals, and how samples are crushed, dissolved and purified in preparation for analysis.
The students were shown all of the features and instruments in the facility, with particular focus on the Nu Plasma 1700, a large-geometry, high-resolution multi-collector ICP-MS.
At the end of the tour, students had a chance to ask questions and even to practice pipetting liquid samples.
