Undergraduate Research Projects
The best way to find a research project is to reach out to your professors and learn about what they are working on. If it sounds interesting to you, find out how you can get involved. Then the next step would be to register for Independent Study in the professor's department. These projects are for course credit and the important thing is what you learn, rather than what you give to the professor's project, though frequently students' contributions to those projects are of a very high order.
Undergraduate students in Arts and Sciences have participated in projects such as:
- Field of Study: Accelerator Physics and Engineering
Project: Investigate and try out methods for transferring power optically across a high voltage gap.
- Field of Study: Dendrochronology or Dendroarchaeology
Project: Working with tree-ring samples, preparing samples for study, analyzing them and interpreting results. The project helped to create a secure time-frame for the past and extracted vital new information on climate and environment. - Field of Study: Experimental Biological Physics
Project: Explore the means by which living matter makes the transition to various forms of multicellular life. - Field of Study: English
Project: Researching how the "New York Times has been a principle source of America's historical memories and cultural contexts and a source of how we saw and ourselves and how the world saw us using current and back issues of the newspaper.
