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Collaborative Research
The Summer Faculty/Student Research Program gives students a singular opportunity to work one-on-one with a faculty member. Students learn in a hands-on way what research in their discipline is all about. They work 40-plus hours per week and are totally immersed in their research endeavor. The benefits are both immediate and long-term.
Students often cite their research experiences at Skidmore as fundamental in terms of what their ultimate career plans are. At the winter trustees meeting, several students said the program was one of the most rewarding experiences in their four years. Long-term, these projects help students gain admission to graduate schools and research careers. Returning graduates consistently tell us that their hands-on research work at Skidmore gave them an advantage over other graduate school students who did not have the same opportunity. Not infrequently, these other students graduated from large research-oriented universities. [Read more in this interview with Mark Hoffman]
- Student-faculty collaborative research often leads to jointly published articles and student presentations at national meetings.
For summer 2009, there are 51 students and 34 faculty members working on 39 different projects in the Summer Faculty/Student Research Program. This is a dramatic increase in the size of the program, which had 20 students in 2005, and just eight in 2000.
Project Summary:- Biology: 7
- Env Studies: 6
- Ex Sci: 4
- Gov't: 3
- Mgt & Bus: 3
- Math/Computer Science: 3
- Psychology: 3
- Sociology: 3
- Chemistry: 2
- Dance: 1
- Economics: 1
- English: 1
- GIS: 1
- Physics: 1
29 professors and 45 students participating
