Undergraduate Research
Rice undergradutes meet influential scholars and world leaders in their day-to-day life at Rice—and conduct important research with them. Our faculty members see the contributions students make to research projects as not only important, but vital.
At Rice, undergraduates are far more actively involved in academic work beyond the classroom than students at many larger universities. Faculty are not the only scholars doing primary research. The opportunity to translate questions and ideas into answers is yours for the taking.
You might perform research through the Rice Undergraduate Scholars Program (RUSP), which funds proposals in all disciplines across the university. Students also approach professors on their own, initiating project ideas and securing funding from outside venues. Faculty in turn contact undergraduates when they have research positions open. With access to faculty, resources, and facilities unmatched by most other schools, Rice undergraduates quickly find the answers they uncover through research enhance those they gain in the classroom.
From studying alternative cancer cures in Mexico to working on a research vessel exploring the West Antarctic ice sheet, from developing improvement plans for economically depressed areas of Houston to measuring lithium abundance in T-Tauri stars, the hands-on research conducted by Rice students is as varied as the students themselves. In fact, since 1990, 238 undergraduates have earned graduate fellowships from the National Science Foundation.
Explore undergraduate research at Rice by clicking on the pictures below.
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