School of Arts and Sciences psychology major Zachary Smith participates in a hands-on research project with his psychology professor Gretchen Chapman.
They have postulated that homeowners will conserve energy if provided with real-time feedback on its cost. Learn more.
Delving into research at Rutgers starts by teaming up with the right faculty member. But once you and your mentor have outlined your inquiry, today’s digital-age library can be the best place to begin your research project in earnest. Learn more.
Seniors Kenny Disbrow, left, and Ashley Wenke plan to become physicians, with the goal of treating patients from poor and underserved communities. Each cites influential coursework at Rutgers and unique service learning opportunities in Cental America that shaped their visions of a future in medicine and public health. Learn more.
Amy Zhang’s research accomplishments and stellar academic record have earned her the opportunity to pursue graduate study at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, thanks to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Also a stellar athlete on the tennis court, Amy credits her coach for encouraging academic as well as athletic achievement. Learn more.
At a research university, you learn from great professors who are pushing and prodding the boundaries of human knowledge every day. And if you are determined and inquisitive, they will take you along on their journeys—and encourage you to begin your own.
Research requires discipline, organization, critical thinking, and writing skills; and it teaches patience and tenacity. And often it’s pure joy for the researcher. It can be a stepping-stone to graduate school or to that first job after graduation.
Rutgers undergraduates are found conducting research in the university’s outstanding laboratories, field stations, archives, libraries, museums, and fine and performing arts studios. If you want to be an undergraduate researcher at Rutgers, you will be.
Research opportunities within individual majors are extensive, with most schools, colleges, and departments offering honors, special problems, and independent study research courses. Requirements depend on individual school, departmental, faculty, and program procedures, so ask your adviser or professor, or check the unit website for more information.
These central resources are a good place to start.
I have read a lot of research papers, and it’s exciting to be on the other side, to be the one writing those papers and making the discoveries.
In New Jersey and across the globe, Rutgers undergraduate researchers get out there and do important work.
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Rutgers–Newark undergraduate and graduate students in ecologist Claus Holzapfel’s Fusion Ecology Lab study communities of plant and animal species that do not occur together naturally and are created through human impact. |
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Rutgers undergraduates team with faculty mentors to research a wide range of topics, including several with direct impact on New Jersey communities, such as controversial local policies affecting immigrants. |
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Approximately 100 undergraduate researchers showcased their research during the sixth annual Rutgers–Camden Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity. |
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Students in the Rutgers Chapter of Engineers Without Borders do applied research to improve water resources in Thailand, Guatemala, and Kenya. |
The Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates weighs in on the benefits of undergraduate research.
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