Dear Student,
What’s your obsession? Particle physics? History of dance? Early American political poetry? Crepidula Fornicata? Kant? Have you found yourself preoccupied with the topic of a final paper for this semester? This is the chance to turn it into a larger and even more ambitious project! If you are currently working in a lab, this is an opportunity to take charge of your own project!
Through the Summer Scholars Program (go.tufts.edu/summerscholars), you can spend this summer working closely with a faculty mentor and a cohort of like-minded nerds from across the disciplines.
The Summer Scholars Program funds rising juniors and seniors to pursue ten-week independent research projects. As part of the program, you will work closely with a faculty mentor to create a poster to present at a poster session in the fall. Summer Scholars then present the next stage of their research at the Undergraduate Research Symposium (go.tufts.edu/symposium) in the spring. Often, the summer project will culminate in your senior honors thesis.
The program is open to Tufts undergraduates currently in their second or third year (fourth year for combined-degree students) of study with a minimum GPA of 3.0. Each student can only apply with one faculty mentor, and each faculty mentor is limited to apply with one student. Faculty mentors must be Tufts faculty and can come from any of the Schools.
Applicants in the fine arts should upload 5-10 images or recordings to a Box folder as well as a document briefly describing each piece, and add anne.moore@tufts.edu as a collaborator. (.pdf) or (.jpg) format is preferred.
If you have any questions, please check out our website (go.tufts.edu/summerscholars), enroll in the Canvas course for interested applicants, and/or reach out to anne.moore@tufts.edu or emily.palermo@tufts.edu.
Onward!
Anne
Anne Moore, PhD
Program Manager, Scholar Development