Publisher's Synopsis
The genesis for this anthology occurred almost two years ago. As the internship program grew, we realized that many of their projects were too good to be used only by us. We thought their ideas deserved a forum where others might also benefit from their observations. This anthology is not exhaustive. In fact, there were many more papers we would have liked to include but, alas, we had to make the cut somewhere. These papers were written between 2010 and 2012. As we noted in our recently published monograph, Smart Research: Leveraging Interns and Fellows to Enhance Your Research Program, most often, interns are brought into organizations and given basic tasks. That is not the modus operandi at PKSOI. The number one rule here is that each intern must be given a real assignment, not "make work" and, most often, that project comes from our or a collaborator's research list. These are research projects that would not otherwise be completed.