The Pew Science Program in Undergraduate Education provides students with the opportunity to do research as their summer job. Goshen was chosen for inclusion in the program because of the extraordinarily high number of graduates who go on to complete doctoral degrees. Goshen is one of only 42 colleges in the country, and the only one in Indiana, involved in the program. GC is also one of only three schools in the program with less than 1,200 students, which highlights the opportunity for intense student-faculty interaction. In the program, GC science students join their counterparts from five other colleges to study the process of research under the guidance of outstanding professors at one of the schools.
Students receive a stipend and living expenses while participating in the program.
Few small colleges can boast the equipment you'll discover in Goshen's Turner Precision X-Ray Measurements Laboratory. And few large institutions can offer undergraduates the research opportunities and faculty attention that we can. Fellowships and lab assistantships are available as early as your first year, if you show promise. Physics and pre-engineering students use sophisticated machining equipment to construct and modify laboratory equipment and to interface it with computers for control and data collection. Over the years, institutions such as the University of Notre Dame and Purdue University and industry giants like Amoco Research, a division of Amoco Oil have benefitted from the work here.