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Personalize your education through Undergraduate Research.<br />

It’s the kind of academic freedom normally reserved for masters-level<br />

students at other universities.<br />

Some recent undergraduate research projects:<br />

4 Predicting the effects of greenhouse gases<br />

4 Uncovering spy organizations that fought racism in the 1900s<br />

4 Finding what causes cancer to spread<br />

4 Designing affordable, nutritious dietary plans for poor communities<br />

4 Creating a series of paintings on human psychology and social interaction<br />

4 Determining the economic value of indigenous mountain trout<br />

Mesha Maren ’12 and Matt Owen ’12: Last year, these students spent six weeks<br />

in Portland, Oregon, while attending an author’s writing seminar. That trip was<br />

part of their undergraduate research project, in which they started a student-led<br />

writer’s workshop on campus, called Redaction.<br />

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