Undergraduate Research 

Most students when they’re thinking about which college to attend don’t consider the possibility that they’ll have the chance to conduct graduate-level research with leading scientists and scholars. Or that they may get to present that research at a national conference or be the lead author of a scholarly article.

That’s because at most colleges, those opportunities don’t exist. But that’s simply not the case at Rice. Here, the chance to conduct significant research as an undergraduate is the norm, not the exception. Undergraduates have access to faculty, resources, and facilities unmatched by most other schools, and they quickly discover that research experience can greatly enhance the classroom experience.

Research opportunities available to students are as diverse as the students themselves—from studying alternative cancer cures in Mexico to working on a research vessel exploring the West Antarctic ice sheet and from developing improvement plans for economically depressed areas of Houston to measuring lithium abundance in T-Tauri stars.

Visit the Undergraduate Research Opportunities site to see what could be in your future.