Summer Scholars

What’s your obsession? Particle Physics? History of Dance? Early American political poetry? Crepidula Fornicata? Kant? Spend the summer geeking out with a faculty mentor and a cohort of like-minded nerds from across the disciplines in Tufts’ Summer Scholars program.

The Summer Scholars program funds rising juniors and seniors to pursue ten-week independent research projects in which each student works closely with a faculty mentor to create a poster that s/he will present at a poster session in the fall. Summer Scholars then present the next stage of their research at the Undergraduate Research Symposium in the spring. Often, the summer project will culminate in the student’s Senior Honors Thesis.

The Tufts Summer Scholars Program is funded by the Office of the Provost and by generous gifts from: Dr. Kimberly and Mr. Robert Gatof; Mr. Thomas C. Jackson; Mr. George and Ms. Susan Kokulis; Mr. John L. Kokulis; Mr. Christopher A. and Mrs. Sue White; Ms Justine Pokoik; Mr. Andrew Bendetson in honor of Laura and Martin Bendetson; and the Board of Trustees in honor of former Chairman, Mr. Nathan Gantcher.

The Program is also supported by the Schwartz Paddock Family Fellowships in the Visual and Performing Arts, the Helen and Werner Lob Student Research Fund in Economics and Christopher Columbus Discovery Summer Scholarships for research spanning disciplinary boundaries. Summer Scholars is administered by the Office of Undergraduate Education.

Applications are welcomed from all Tufts undergraduates, in any discipline, meeting the requirements listed on the Student Information page.
 

View the list of 2013 Scholars, Mentors & Projects

To learn more about opportunities for research and scholarship, please email or call Anne Moore (anne.moore@tufts.edu; 617-627-5808)

If you have already conducted research or scholarship at Tufts, show it off! The Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Symposium is held annually in April.                    

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