Summer Scholars have been 8-10 week full-time paid positions, through either internal or external grant funding. All students are eligible for most of these positions regardless of GPA or class year.
Broader Opportunities On- and Off-Campus
Summer research gives the flexibility to run experiments, visit places, and do field research that might not fit within class schedules during the academic year.
Previous Summer Scholars have:
- Visited Puerto Rico to sample plants on the beaches and microbes in the water with Peter Melcher, Susan Witherup, Nanda Cortes, and Dave Gondek
- Made a road trip to ponds around the Northeast to sample aquatic invertebrates with Brooks Miner
- Trapped small mammals at dawn at nearby Sapsucker Woods with Leann Kanda
- Worked on C. elegans in a collaborator's research lab at University of Maryland with Te-Wen Lo
- Learned new cell imaging techniques at Cornell University with Ed Cluett
- Gotten a behind-the-scenes tour of the Smithsonian Conservation Institute at the National Zoological Park with Nanda Cortes
