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Undergraduate research benefits students and professors

Colleges nationwide are giving undergraduates more opportunities to delve into research, once the nearly exclusive realm of graduate students and professors.

In Ventura County, undergraduates are studying environmental pollutants in water, the politics of autism and the food-buying habits of Latino families, among other topics.

"Undergraduate research is one of the most effective ways of teaching possible," said Michele LeBlanc, chairwoman of the exercise science department at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks. "In the past five years, we've seen it progressing more and more and more. It's not that nothing was happening before, but faculty are more interested in it now."

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