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Students Reflect on Opportunities Created through Faculty-Mentored Research

The University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program has enabled a dozen students from diverse majors to collaborate with faculty mentors while gaining meaningful hands-on research experience.

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‘I Have Always Been Fascinated By How Mathematics Can Describe the Distant Universe’

As a member of the University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program and a 2021 McHale Fellow, I am conducting theoretical research on how the shape of the universe can explain dark matter and dark energy. The findings of this research may have further implications in the future survey of the universe, informing us of what to expect at the edge of the observable cosmos.

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‘I Am Pursuing Research that Could Change the World of Forensic DNA Analysis’

My involvement in the University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program has enabled me to conduct cutting-edge research while making important connections in the field of forensic science.

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‘The SURF Program has Given Me a Great Opportunity to Explore a New Branch of Research’

As a member of the University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, I am conducting important research on variants of COVID-19, and I hope our work will help researchers understand how these variants could impact the pandemic.

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Students Look Forward to Exploring Passions Through Faculty-Mentored Research

Learn more about some of the fascinating research projects students are conducting in collaboration with their faculty mentors as part of the University’s innovative Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program.