Students
Pack Research Experience Program
The Pack Research Experience Program (PREP) is a research award that directly benefits underrepresented students with an academic standing of freshman or sophomore. Get paid to work on a research project or creative activity under the guidance of a faculty mentor!
Benefits of participating:
- Get paid while learning about research.
- Apply what you learn in the classroom to real issues.
- Develop skills and knowledge that can help you be a better student.
- Build a supportive community around you that includes faculty, staff and fellow students.
- Contribute to a team of researchers that are developing new knowledge.
- Build experience to apply for other undergraduate research opportunities, the McNair Scholars Program or even graduate school.
Mentors and projects for spring 2022
Applications for these projects are due in the spring of 2022. Visit the PREP student information page for details.
Laura Blume
Tracking violence against public figures in Central America
Floris van Breugel
Designing autonomous flying robots from insect behavior – Biology
Floris van Breugel
Designing autonomous flying robots from insect behavior – Engineering and Robotics
Rosalind Bucy
Assessing a collection of Indigenous books
Steven Frese
Gut microbiomes in preterm infants
Lydia Huerta
Trans migrant women’s experiences accessing aid via digital technologies
Fang Jiang
Effects of aging on multisensory temporal processing and postural control
Daniel Joyce
Harmful and helpful lighting
Ezequiel Korin
Website influence on the Latinx community
Ezequiel Korin
Ethnic biases for Latinx journalists within newsrooms
Monica Nicolescu
Human-robot interaction and collaboration
Elizabeth Pringle
Plant resource stress impacts on food webs
Andrey Sarantsev
Stochastic portfolio theory and stock market valuation
Benjamin Weigler
Improving technologies and procedures for animal care and a state-of-the-art vivarium