Undergraduate Research Opportunities

Prestigious awards, practical experience

Boston College is committed to providing an array of research opportunities for undergraduates. In the humanities, the sciences, business, and education, students have a chance to gain exposure to new methods and lead their own research projects.

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Student wearing eye protection working on research project

No matter your interests, fellowships across disciplines provide funding to gain practical experience in your fields of interest.

Whether Fulbright grants, Marshall and Rhodes scholarships or diversity fellowships, our humanities students have access to prestigious funding sources.

Studying social sciences at Boston College means many opportunities for funding, including the Boren and James Madison fellowships.
Extend your expertise between semesters with extensive Summer Fellowships.
Advanced Study Grants promote scholarly initiatives by supporting student-designed projects.
Conference Travel Grants support students presenting original research at academic or professional conferences worldwide.

Thesis Research Supplemental Grants help cover expenses for seniors working on a thesis or Scholar of the College project.

Undergraduate Fellowship Opportunities

Undergraduate Journals

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Research Highlights

Environmental Sciences

Geological Studies major Anne Haws ’18 spent a week conducting field research in Italy as part of a collaborative NSF project focused on understanding ancient subduction zone processes. Haws visited a variety of sites in the Western Alps and Apennines, where she collected rock samples for her upcoming senior thesis on rodingites. “I knew that being able to see these rocks in person would be an unparalleled experience,” said Haws. “As my senior thesis advisor, Professor Ethan Baxter, often says, ‘Every rock tells a story.’”
Chemistry

Undergraduate researchers Christopher Latour ’18, and Chester J.J. Wrobel ’17 co-authored a report with Assistant Professor of Chemistry Abhishek Chatterjee on their lab’s efforts to create a new method to engineer and monitor protein functions as a way of expanding the scientific understanding of the processes that guide protein functions in our cells. The report appeared in the journal Chemical Biology.
Biology

With funding from a Department of Defense grant, biology major Benjamin Posorske ’20 is conducting platelet and stem cell research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. An article co-authored by Posorske outlining a new method for developing non-donor-based platelet sources appeared in the academic journal Platelets.

Original Thinking

FUNDING A WIDE ARRAY OF SUMMER PROJECTS IN LOCATIONS AROUND THE GLOBE.

Some grants take their researchers overseas, like John Sege's works in Pantasma, Nicaragua, investigating solutions to providing clean, easy access to drinking water.

Prestigious awards, practical experience

No matter your interests, fellowships across disciplines provide funding to gain practical experience in your fields of interest.

Undergraduate Journals

Research Highlights

Environmental Sciences

Chemistry

Biology

Original Thinking

FUNDING A WIDE ARRAY OF SUMMER PROJECTS IN LOCATIONS AROUND THE GLOBE.

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