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Anonymous Mon Mar 19 21:26:31 2012 No.4484284 [Reply] [Original]

How does /sci/ go about brainstorming ideas for research projects?

My University is offering a small award for astronomy-related undergraduate summer research projects and I'm planning to apply for it. (One of my undergraduate goals is to try and get something published or at least on that track before I graduate)

I've done a little research with faculty but I'm not clear on the best way to come up with an independent project. I've got some ideas but after looking at existing research it just seems like everything I've come up with has 'been done', to some extent or another.

Should I look at researching specific cases of these concepts? Try to find some new angle or 'spin' to approach them with? Or do I just need to keep looking for something that's never been done.

Any advice would be appreciated, even just a nudge in the right direction.

Thanks

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 22:12:00 2012 No.4484508 bump

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