On-Campus Research Opportunities

We encourage our students to participate in undergraduate research. Whether you prefer to look at cancer cells under a microscope, culture microbes in a magnetic field, take physiological recordings from invertebrate animals, or collect insect larvae from a stream, there's probably a project available that suits your interests! Undergraduate research has increasingly become essential for admission to graduate and professional schools, so be sure to speak with your professors early and often about the opportunities that are available.

Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)

This program provides housing and a stipend for students who want to work with a faculty member on-campus in the summer. Please contact the Academic Dean's office for current information on how to apply.

Current Faculty Research Projects

David Merwine, Ph.D.
Neurobiology of invertebrates.

Denise Piechnik, Ph.D.
Biodiversity, population, community and landscape ecology; terrestrial and aquatic arthropods.

Mary Mulcahy, Ph.D.
Evolutionary ecology of plant-animal interactions.

Om Singh, Ph.D.
Systems biology, and products of therapeutic and commercial significance from extremophile microbes

Lauren Yaich, Ph.D.
Cancer biology and developmental genetics of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.