Research

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90% of the Class of 2025 completed undergraduate research.

Faculty and students conduct research on-campus and off-campus, in class and outside of class. With a faculty to student ratio of 1:14, you can work collaboratively with faculty on their research projects or develop your own research project under faculty mentorship. You’ll be gaining valuable graduate level research experience as an undergrad.

Faculty research

A team of researchers across the United States, including Cornell College Professor of Geology Rhawn Denniston, is embarking on a mission to answer questions about climate change in Portugal. The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the team more than $676,000 to study stalagmites from caves in central and southern Portugal as a means of investigating how rainfall changed over decades and centuries starting 2,500 years ago.

Professor Denniston is just one faculty among many on campus conducting research in the natural sciences. As a Cornell student, you'll have the chance to learn how to conduct your own research from those who are experts in the field. A few of our ongoing projects include:

• NSF Grant on Climate Change
• NIMH-funded research on eating disorders

Faculty and student collaborative research

You can collaborate with faculty on a research project, gaining valuable hands-on experience where you'll apply what you're learning in the classroom to a real-world problem. We've had students work with faculty on the following:

Design a pathway to a research career

Just like you can customize your degree at Cornell, you can also design your own research project. You bring your research ideas and Cornell faculty can act as your mentors.

You can also pursue research opportunities at other facilities and institutions. The Berry Career Institute can connect you to research internships.

Examples of recent research focused internships include:

• Tuberculosis Drug Testing and Development at the University of Colorado - Anschutz Medical Campus
• Concussion Research at Children’s Hospital Colorado
• Summer Research at the University of Colorado
• Estuarine Ecology Field Research at the Baruch Marine Field Laboratory
• Research in Psychiatric Disorders at the University of Iowa College of Pharmacology
• Gait and Movement Analysis at Children’s Hospital Colorado
• Cognitive Neurophysiology at the Mayo Clinic Center for Sleep Medicine