Summer Research at Bates During the beautiful Maine summer, the Bates campus is home to 30 to 50 students engaged in full-time research with a faculty member. Another 10 to 20 Bates students conduct research with Bates funding, at remote locations around the country and the world . Summer research gives students a unique opportunity to work closely with faculty members. They also say that their student collaborators give them fresh insights into their rese arch fields.
Students get invaluable experience in labs and library settings.
They see a discipline from a new angle, when the logic of the lecture hall gives way to the wide-open realm of unanswered questions. Several students each year publish their research, and many give presentations at national and international scholarly conferences. With funding available through Bates grant programs, summer research can be the perfect summer job. The Office of the Dean of the Faculty sponsors a number of grant programs offering support for students who wish to undertake research during the summer. Interested students should contact Kerry O'Brien in the Dean of the Faculty's Office early in the winter semester.