Cornerstone over Capstone: The case for structured career development opportunities early in the undergraduate biology curriculum as a way to influence science and biology identities

• Melissa McCartney ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mmccartn@fiu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States of America, STEM Transformation Institute, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5857-5382

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• Jessica Colon

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States of America

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