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Psychology

Anderson & Bowen Research Scholars

Research Symposium

Jessie Birdwhistell ('08) discusses the results of her summer research project on categorical learning at the Denison Summer Research Symposium.

The Summer Scholars Program permits students to pursue full-time collaborative work with faculty members, or independent research under the close supervision of faculty members for a minimum of ten weeks during the summer.  This program provides students a unique undergraduate venue in which to experiment with ideas, pursue an intellectual passion, and focus intently on the resolution of a question over a sustained period of time.

Students in the Summer Scholar Program earn a stipend ($3,300 in the summer of 2008) and on-campus housing during the ten-week research interval. They are also awarded a budget to fund their research.

Projects are supported by the Anderson Summer Scholar Program, the Bowen Summer Scholars Program, and the Psychology Department's Sharfstein Memorial Scholarship. In previous years, summer research projects were also supported by the Young Scholar Program and the Hughes Research Scholar Program.

Interested students should contact a psychology faculty member in November or December of the year before the summer research begins to discuss projects and the funding application process. Summer funding applications – in which students describe the proposed research in detail - are due in mid to late January of the year preceding the proposed summer research. The application requires an approval signature from the faculty member who will serve as the students’ summer-research advisor. Funding decisions are made by mid March.

 In the fall semester after the summer research is conducted, all summer-scholar students present their summer projects to the wider Denison community in an on-campus poster session. Some students also present their findings at regional, national, or international science conferences. Students should consult with their faculty advisors about funding for these off-campus conferences.

The Denison Summer Scholars Program permits