School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation

 

 

 

 

 

Architecture Building
     (301) 405-8000
http://www.arch.umd.edu

The thesis sequence at Maryland is an integral part of the curriculum; it allows, in fact demands, a self-directed study. The student individually defines an architectural problem and generates architectural solutions. Many theses are motivated by social and cultural problems, and others are more narrowly focused on the craft or practice of architecture. More >>

Student work in the Urban Studies and Planning Program consists of individual research, collaboration with faculty members, class projects, and semester-long team studio projects. In the studio projects, students address a particular issue or problem facing a community by talking with stakeholders to clarify the nature of the problem, designing a research strategy, collecting and analyzing a range of information, and presenting an oral and written report containing analyses and recommendations. More >>

College of Behavioral and Social Sciences

2141 Tydings Hall
(301) 405-1697
http://www.bsos.umd.edu

2 Year Programs with Research Components for Incoming Freshmen

CIVICUS is an academic citation program centered around 5 tenets of civil society: citizenship, leadership, community building in a diverse society, scholarship, and community service-learning. During the final semester of this two-year learning and living program, students participate in a Supervised internship, engage in community service, or complete a research project on a civil society topic. This final project demonstrates the application and continued study of skills and concepts, grounded in the social sciences, relevant to understanding and effectively dealing with contemporary social issues.

Summer Programs for Rising Juniors and Seniors

The program was developed to reinforce the interest of talented and underrepresented students in pursuing academic careers through graduate study. The Summer Research Initiative gives promising undergraduates the opportunity to experience hands-on research and to learn about graduate programs at the University of Maryland. tudents in the program participate in a faculty-guided research project and a twice weekly seminar series, attend off-site visits to local research institutions, and present their research to the University of Maryland academic community in a poster session. Participating academic departments include Anthropology, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Geography, Government & Politics, Hearing & Speech Sciences, Psychology, and Sociology.

Programs by Department

This intensive, six-week field school devotes eight hours daily to supervised archaeological fieldwork, laboratory work, stratigraphic analysis, technical drawing, writing and interpretation. Skill development will focus on: soil identification and description; accurate record keeping and photography; artifact identification and cataloguing; understanding of site formation processes and reconstruction of site stratigraphy; basic surveying and mapping; elements of site report production (e.g., background historical research, reconstruction of site stratigraphy, production of unit summaries and familiarity with professional standards and guidelines for conducting and reporting on fieldwork and laboratory analysis); and public speaking and interpretation.

Most faculty members are actively engaged in research programs which can provide valuable and interesting experiences for the student. Often, in addition to working closely with an individual faculty member, the HESP major has an opportunity to work and interact with other undergraduates, and with graduate students. Various opportunities are available for research experience. Students may go to the HESP faculty research site to identify potential projects and mentors. Students may also contact individual faculty and graduate students regarding research opportunities.

Most faculty members are actively engaged in research programs which can provide valuable and interesting experiences for the student. Often, in addition to working closely with an individual faculty member, the undergraduate student (PSYC major) has an opportunity to work and interact with other undergraduates, and with graduate students. Various opportunities are available for research experience. The Psychology Undergraduate Listserve is one source of possible research positions on campus. Students may also contact individual faculty and graduate students regarding research opportunities.

The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) offers a number of research opportunities for undergraduates at the University of Maryland. Each semester, START hosts undergraduates in a for-credit internship program that connects students with ongoing, faculty-led research projects related to the study of terrorism and responses to terrorism. Students have worked on projects involving such topics as: terrorist acts committed by ethnic minority groups; geospatial patterns of terrorism; potential terrorist use of radiological/nuclear weapons; and incidents of maritime piracy.

In addition to semester internships, START also runs a summer research program, in which students from across the country work 20-40 hours/week on START research projects while also attending a professional development series designed to provide them in-depth knowledge of terrorism studies research being conducted around the world as well as to facilitate their professional development.

Honors Programs and Research for Credit

Robert H. Smith School of Business

1570 Van Munching Hall
(301) 405-2286
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu 

2-3 Year Long Programs with Research Components

This innovative, three-year program invites high-achieving students to progress in team-based courses led by an interdisciplinary faculty. The QUEST program is a collaborative effort between the Robert H. Smith School of Business and the A. James Clark School of Engineering, and admits students from those schools as well as the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences. Business, Engineering and CMPS freshmen and five-year sophomores may apply.

The Smith School Honors program offers students with superior academic achievements special opportunities and resources, including the opportunity to participate in cutting-edge research on business issues, and to graduate with honors. Students in the honors program take their upper-level BMGT core courses in small, seminar-style honors sections, which allow in-depth exploration of business topics in marketing, finance, management and organization, business law, and policy and strategy.

Research for Credit

College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences

CMNS Research Website

Semester-Long Research Programs (Fall, Spring, Summer)

The goal of the Catalyst Seminar is to introduce new students to the diversity of research opportunities available to them in the College of Life Sciences and facilitate interaction among students and faculty investigators. Students will learn about the life sciences research currently being conducted at the University of Maryland through a series of faculty seminars and informal coffee hours. The seminar will also provide an opportunity for students to learn skills essential for becoming successful student researchers, such as strategies for negotiating the research process, locating a faculty mentor, ethics in science, and critical analysis of research papers and proposals.

The JIFSAN internship program allows undergraduate students at the University of Maryland, College Park to participate in research at FDA facilities, including the Harvey Wiley Building in College Park and the MOD1 and MOD11 facilities on Muirkirk Road in Laurel, MD. Internships require a time commitment of 8-10 hours/week during the semester and 30 hours/week during winterterm and summer. After 100 hours as an unpaid intern, JIFSAN interns become eligible to compete for a paid internship for subsequent semesters.

The Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the College of Chemical & Life Sciences, University of Maryland supports the independent research activities of talented undergraduate students under the direct supervision of a faculty investigator/mentor. The objectives of the program are to allow students to experience the investigative process, demonstrate their aptitude for research, develop a close collaboration with a faculty mentor, and strengthen their conviction in their career choice. The Undergraduate Fellowship program encourages the submission of applications from members of groups traditionally underrepresented in the sciences.

Summer Research Programs

Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Summer Program

CBCB offers undergraduates the opportunity to get hands-on research experience in bioinformatics as part of an ongoing research projects within CBCB. The program involves full-time research (40 hours/ week) and students will get to choose from among several projects. Students will be able to attend seminars and lectures to enrich their experience. Students are compensated at a rate of $10/ hour.

Maryland Sea Grant

Maryland Sea Grant offers 14 undergraduate students the opportunity to conduct marine research in biology, chemistry and physical oceanography on the Chesapeake Bay. As part of a research team, you will work on an individual project in areas including estuarine processes, biogeochemistry, contaminants, fisheries, physical oceanography, the benthic environment, and submerged aquatic vegetation. As part of a research team, you will work on an individual project in areas including estuarine processes, biogeochemistry, contaminants, fisheries, physical oceanography, the benthic environment, and submerged aquatic vegetation.

Summer Research Programs

The University of Maryland's Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, with support from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense, offers research opportunities for undergraduate students in the broad area of nonlinear dynamics. Students from a variety of universities and backgrounds typically work in teams of two or three for 11 weeks during the summer and are supervised jointly by faculty members and graduate students. Research projects will be theoretical, experimental, or both. Examples of research topics are: theoretical studies of chaos in time and space, experimental studies of patterns in granular media, the development of singularities in fluids and solids, nonlinear dynamics in optical systems, nonlinear dynamics in charged particle beams and devices, and turbulence and nonlinear phenomena in plasmas.

The Math SPIRAL summer program in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland in College Park is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Security Agency (NSA). Working with a group of affiliated minority serving colleges and universities, we bring gifted rising sophomores and rising juniors to the College Park campus for a six-week intensive program to help prepare them for graduate study and active careers in the mathematical sciences.

Semester and Year Long Research Opportunities

A student may receive credit for performing research in the laboratory of one of the faculty in the Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics. Please visit our website for more information.

This program provides the opportunity for undergraduates to collaborate with a faculty member and his or her research group in the area of atmospheric and oceanic sciences. Participants may help write a scientific paper, or even write one entirely on their own; they may also be given an opportunity to present such a paper at a professional conference. The following general topics are available for undergrad research: Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Pollution, Climate Diagnostics, Earth System Science, Numerical Weather Prediction and Atmospheric Dynamics, Physical Oceanography and Air/Sea interaction, and Remote Sensing.

A variety of research experiences are available for undergraduates at the University of Maryland. Students with an interest in performing research, either independently or in conjunction with faculty and graduate students, should contact the person identified on this website or the Undergraduate Astronomy Advisor.

Our aim in the Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research (LMDR) is to apply fundamental chemistry and physics to problems in economic geology, igneous petrology, and industrial mineralogy. For information about high school, undergraduate, and graduate research opportunities and internships, please check out this website.

This link contains a listing of physics professors and information about possible undergraduate research opportunities they may offer. This list is not exhaustive; please contact physics professors not listed to discuss their field of research an possible opportunities for undergraduates.

The Institute for Physical Science and Technology's primary focus is research in interdisciplinary areas that fall outside the boundaries of traditional academic departments. IPST offers a variety of research projects that welcome undergradute participation. Interested students are encouraged to make direct contact with sponsoring faculty.

For information about high school, undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral research opportunities and internships, please visit our website.

There are a variety of opportunities for undergraduate geology students to participate in research with members of the IGL . These include the possibility of work on samples from Earth's mantle and crust, and extraterrestrial materials. Interested students are encouraged to visit our website.

Geology undergraduates and others with background in chemistry and/or physics are invited to participate in research with members of the Plasma Lab. Research opportunities include hands on experience in chemical and/or isotopic analyses and data processing. Please visit our website for more information.

Honors Programs and Research for Credit

College of Education

Benjamin Building
(301) 405-2344

http://www.education.umd.edu/

Opportunities in Research Laboratories

Research at the Child Development Laboratory focuses on multiple facets of socio-emotional development during infancy and the preschool years. Researchers study cognitive and emotional development in infants and young children and are interested in the observation and measurement of emotion expression, experience and emotion regulation. The Child Development Laboratory specializes in developmental psychophysiology including the measurement of brain electrical activity (EEG).

The Social and Moral Development Laboratory is housed in the Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, and its research focuses on how children, adolescents, and young adults evaluate social and moral issues in everyday life. Post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students collaborate on a range of projects. Students study developmental theory, research methodology, conduct data analysis, read the current research literature, and communicate the findings through presentations and publications. The general topics investigated in the Social and Moral Development Laboratory include developmental social cognition, moral reasoning, intergroup attitudes and relationships, explicit judgments and implicit biases, stereotyping, and the role of culture on social development.

School of Public Health

3310 Health and Human Performance Building
(301) 405-2438

http://www.sph.umd.edu/

Honors Programs and Research for Credit

Philip Merrill College of Journalism

1100 Knight Hall
(301) 405-2438

http://www.merrill.umd.edu/

Honors Programs and Research for Credit