IFLE
The Integrated Freshman Learning Experience (IFLE) is a two-phase life-sciences-focused six-week summer research experience you can participate in prior to your freshman year, followed by a year-long research-based honors course integrating biology, biochemistry, and neuroscience.
- Phase 1: Summer Research Intensive. June 19 – July 28, 2017
- Spend up to eight hours a day working in a research lab
- Receive research training from faculty mentor and lab members
- Participate in bi-weekly research professional development lunches with peers, research faculty, IU research support staff, and former IFLE scholars who are engaged in work in industry, government, universities, and/or medicine
- Summer housing and meals provided at no cost to you
- Phase 2: Academic Freshman Year Research-based Honors Course
- Eight-credit course includes lectures with corresponding lab components
- The three module course moves from genes, proteins, to systems (biology, biochemistry, and neuroscience)
- Inquiry-based format engages students through group experiments
- Eligible students receive a $1000 scholarship during the academic freshman year if enrolled both H111 and H112
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IFLE was not only an academically beneficial experience, but it also connected me to a group of 12 awesome like-minded people, and showed me what it's like to be part of an influencial research project. The summer gave me insight into the kind of scientist I want to be, and gave me invaluable experience I can use in future labs.
Mollie Carrison