| Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Undergraduates have always been an important element in our research program. Students co-write publications and present research presentations at conferences. Research programs are funded by a wide variety of government and industrial grants.
Otherwise known as the URP, Rensselaer's Undergraduate Research Program is a campus-wide approach to research. Students can research for class credit or for funding.
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Matt Harrigan went looking for undergraduate research opportunities, and found a program that let him look for something even bigger — tidal streams of stars in the Milky Way.
Under Professor Heidi Newberg, Harrigan uses spectra of hot A-type stars in the Galactic spheroid from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to complete his research.
Learn more about his research experience.
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Ian Jacobi works on two different research projects. One involves semantic Web technologies, and the other is astronomy education research. In both cases, his involvement was led by a strong interest in the topics, a desire to further his education, and to position himself well for graduate studies.
Read more for his descriptions of these two different research environments.
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Matthew Pevarnik helped set up one of the largest science experiments of our time. The summer before his senior year at Rensselaer, the physics major interned in Switzerland at the Large Hadron Collider with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (otherwise known as CERN), where scientists hope to create a series of mini Big Bangs.
Learn more about he followed that up.
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Stephanie Tomasulo came to RPI knowing what she wanted to do.
“I always really liked doing hands on projects and got into physics mainly for the research aspect of it,” she said. “It’s very interesting to be able to predict how something will happen and then test to see if that is actually what happens.”
Read more to find out what she did.
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