Undergraduate Research Opportunities

Summer 2009

 

In addition to the research, students will participate in various meetings and workshops, and will have time to explore the San Francisco Bay Area.  This program will provide valuable experience for undergraduates who intend to pursue a career in research, and those who intend to pursue a career in secondary education.  For more information, investigate the program details on this website, including activities, and research projects.


Highlights

  1. BulletJune 7 to August 15, 2009

  2. BulletResearch in various areas of physical science, life science, and behavioral and social science

  3. BulletStipend of $4000, plus room and board

  4. BulletUp to $300 to travel to the SMC campus

  5. BulletUp to $1000 for research materials

  6. BulletApplications due April 20, 2009


Women and underrepresented

minorities are especially

encouraged to apply.

Saint Mary’s College of CA

Bay Bridge REU Program

Research projects

Biology

  1. BulletGenetic Control of Organ Formation (V. Chandrasekaran)   

  2. BulletUsing Bioinformatics to Identify the Location of Genes on Fruit Fly Chromosomes (V. Chandrasekaran)

  3. BulletUsing Retroelements as Genetic Markers for Varietals of Wine Grapes (K. Garrison)

Chemistry

  1. BulletAir Quality in California’s National Parks (J. Burley)

  2. BulletArsenic Quantification Using XRF (S. Bachofer)

  3. BulletDesign, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Tyrosinase Inhibitors (V. Burke)

  4. BulletSurfactant Research Project (S. Bachofer)

Environmental Science

  1. BulletSaint Mary’s Wetland Project (W. Perkins)

Physics & Astronomy

  1. BulletNear Earth Objects (NEO) Search (R. Olowin)

  2. BulletObserving Optical Variations in Bright Quasars (R. Olowin)

  3. BulletSaint Mary’s Seismic Research: Making Waves (R. Olowin)

Psychology

  1. BulletElectrophysiological Study of Processes of Identification, Concealment, and Fabrication of Knowledge (H. Nakano)

  2. BulletElectrophysiological Study of Processes of Null Arguments in Japanese Speakers (H. Nakano)

offers research opportunities for undergraduates in the physical, life, and social sciences.  Students will select a research project, and work with a faculty mentor for 10 weeks on an original research project in anthropology, biology, chemistry, environmental science, physics & astronomy, or psychology.  This program is funded by the National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates.

Anthropology

  1. BulletConjuring the City: Urban Bodies, Margins, and Alternative Spaces (J. Heung)

  2. BulletSacred Maize: Anthropological Research on Corn and Culture in Native America (L. Meisch)

Communication

  1. BulletCapital Punishment: The Role of Televised Prisoner Depictions in Jury Decision Making (S. Fallis)

  2. BulletOut of This World: Landscapes of Our Solar System (E. Tywoniak, C. Brewster)

  3. BulletThe Classical Quadrivium and the Shaping of the Contemporary Mind (E. Tywoniak)

Sociology

  1. BulletWasted Time “Doing Time”:  The Personal, Economic and Social Costs of America's Imprisonment Binge (J. Ely)