Summer Undergraduate Research

Every summer the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry provides a summer research experience for a limited number of undergraduate majors. Students that are accepted into the program will work alongside graduate students in state of the art facilities for 10 weeks (~ June 1- August 10). Ancillary activities include a weekly lunchtime seminar program, a field trip, ethics-in-research training, career opportunities and a concluding poster session. Each student receives a stipend, and housing is provided for students from outside of Baylor.

For summer 2012, the following students participated as full-time researchers:

Our field trip visited the Space-X rocket engine test facility, Allergan and the Owen-Illinois glass plant. Seeing blobs of molten glass turned into red-hot bottles every few seconds was impressive. A photo of the group at the Space-X facility is shown.