This summer, more than 100 College of the Holy Cross students took a deep dive into cutting-edge research through the College’s Weiss Summer Research Program. Under the mentorship of faculty, students engaged in focused projects that push intellectual boundaries and fuel their academic interests.
The nine-week program, which supports research in academic disciplines across the spectrum, allows students to identify their own research project or to work alongside a professor who is engaged in ongoing research. Summer research is an ideal experience for students interested in pursuing graduate studies, but it also provides valuable experience in planning and executing an extensive project, budgeting project expenses, working within a team and strengthening written and oral skills. Students develop real, substantive expertise in ways that can’t be matched elsewhere.
Check out five student projects here, representing a wide range of interests, from discussing nutrition in local food pantries to exploring what life might look like in outer space.