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Effects of Mitochondrial protein degradation on organismal health
Are you interested in the project below? Awesome! PLEASE DO NOT APPLY THROUGH THE URO SITE. Instead, follow this link [ https://forms.gle/kNX3nguibGT6wG6R9] to send in your application by Feb. 23rd…
2 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Biology
Understanding Structural Changes of Anticonvulsants and Their Water Clusters
Welcome to SPECTROSCOPY!!! where we use electromagnetic radiation to interrogate matter. In my lab we focus on the understanding of the interactions between molecules because the key to understanding…
3 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Condensed Matter Physics
(+4)
Chemistry
Engineering
Physics
Condensed Matter Physics
Optics
Bacterial gene regulation in response to stress
Project Overview: Bacteria respond to stressful changes in their environment by changing their patterns of gene expression. The RpoS protein coordinates E. coli ’s general stress response, allowing…
3 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Biomedical Sciences
(+1)
Biology
Biomedical Sciences
The Tacit Dimension in Knowledge
Our college’s founding coincided with physical chemist and Royal Society Fellow Michael Polanyi’s shift from chemistry to philosophy and the study of knowledge. In his widely acclaimed treatise…
2 sp.
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1 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Teaching & Learning
(+3)
Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
Mathematics
Cognitive Science
Teaching & Learning
Quantifying the impact of AI-powered pro-social feedback
One of the biggest problems facing online platforms today is the prevalence of so-called “toxic'” behavior, such as personal attacks, harassment, and general incivility. My prior research, conducted…
3 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Computer Science
Biomechanical insights to prevent and treat kneecap instability
Using biomechanical simulation and machine learning, we will study patient-specific knees and relate their qualities to kneecap instability and treatment.
2 sp.
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2 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Biomechanics
(+3)
Engineering
Biomechanics
Biomedical Engineering
Machine Learning
Exact Algorithms for Identifying Structure in Sums and Graphs
Many fascinating problems in theoretical computer science have the following form: "Given as input a large data object (such as a graph or a set of numbers) can we find a large, mathematically…
3 sp.
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1 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Algorithms
(+2)
Computer Science
Mathematics
Algorithms
Developing Models for Chemical Reactivity
If interested in joining Prof. Ogba's computational chemistry research group, please do NOT apply using the URO site. Instead, click here Summer 2025 research in Prof. Ogba's group is full time (10…
2 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Chemistry
Music Information Retrieval Research
The Music Information Retrieval (MIR) Research Lab explores the intersection of music, signal processing, and machine learning. Our goal is to train machine learning and signal processing ninjas using…
2 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
(+1)
Spring - Part Time
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Human-centered Design
(+2)
Human-centered Design
Machine Learning
Signal Processing
Equitable Grading in a Computing Education Course
The goal of this project is to investigate existing equitable grading policies and develop assignments for a course that can be graded in accordance with the ethos of these policies.
1 sp.
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1 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Computer Science
Feature Isolation and Noise Robustness in Human and Computer Vision
This project is funded through multiple sources, including an NSF-funded REU site with the HMC Computer Science Department. You can read more about the mentors and projects taking part at this link…
3 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Visual psychophysics
(+3)
Computer Science
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Visual psychophysics
Selectively Planning with a Flawed Predictive Model
One reasonable way for an artificial agent to learn to make good decisions is for it to learn a predictive model of its environment so it can “imagine” possible futures and plan its behavior to obtain…
3 sp.
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1 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Computer Science
(+2)
Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Intro Computing Redesign
This is a hands-on education-focused project to develop, create, and test new ideas intro-computing ideas. These positions will work to improve HMC's cs5 course -- and will include working with the…
3 sp.
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1 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Computer Science
Shape-dependent Polymer Function
Overview: The accessibility of polymeric materials has led to their widespread use in addressing diverse global challenges from food preservation to light transportation and affordable medical devices…
2 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Polymer Science
(+4)
Chemistry
Materials Science
Molecular Design
Polymer Science
Sustainability
AMISTAD Lab: Proving the Limits of Large Language Models
This project is part of an NSF-funded REU site with the HMC Computer Science Department. You can learn about other REU projects here: https://sites.google.com/g.hmc.edu/summer2025reu/home . (US…
3 sp.
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1 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Computer Science
(+3)
Computer Science
Mathematics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Entrepreneurship Studio Program (ESP)
Bridging technical research with entrepreneurial opportunity is intense, creative, and fun. The ESP supports these self-directed, team-based, entrepreneurial bridge projects.
6 sp.
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1 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Engineering
(+8)
Biology
Chemistry
Computer Science
Engineering
Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
Mathematics
Physics
Human-centered Design
Human-Computer Interaction
CACTI Lab: Challenging Climate Tech Mental Models & Form Factors.
We have very specific mental models and expectations of what climate change interventions and technologies should look like. In this project, we will break free of these norms by leveraging…
2 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Human-Computer Interaction
(+3)
Computer Science
Environmental Science
Human-centered Design
Human-Computer Interaction
Rotational Spectroscopy of Anticonvulsant Drugs
Rotational spectroscopy allows for full molecular characterization. However, in order to achieve this, it is necessary to record the rotational spectra of both the parent molecule and a family of…
1 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Chemistry
Eco-friendly molecule making
Do you want to do chemistry that is good and beautiful, green and clever? Do you want to be a legit molecule maker? Join us! We are developing eco-friendly reactions to rapidly create organic…
3 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Chemistry
(+3)
Chemistry
Molecular Design
Pharmaceuticals
Sustainability
Evaluating Heat Pumps with Thermal Energy Storage in Minnesota
Although heat pumps can perform efficiently and effectively for most heating hours, available products perform poorly below 0 °F and fail to function in the coldest conditions. To ensure resiliency…
2 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
(+1)
Summer - Full Time
Summer - Part Time
Project categories
Architecture
(+4)
Engineering
Architecture
Climate Change
Mechanical Engineering
Sustainability
Scripting for All
Scripting is rightly appreciated as an automation engine. This project explores scripting's value as an exploration engine: Can it be helpful for developing and investigating ideas, far beyond CS?
4 sp.
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1 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Computer Science
First-year Summer Start Up
Similar to Entrepreneurship Studio, Summer Start Up combines entrepreneurial problem-research, project-design, prototype-building, and pitch-practice! However, students do not need to have a…
3 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Mathematics
(+6)
Biology
Chemistry
Computer Science
Engineering
Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
Mathematics
Physics
LILAQ Real-time air quality monitoring: from collection to dissemination
This work is a collaboration between Professor Lelia Hawkins (Chemistry/Climate) and Professor Julie Medero (Computer Science). Air pollution research can be described as requiring “three legs of a…
4 sp.
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1 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Computer Science
(+7)
Chemistry
Computer Science
Climate Change
Data Science
Earth Science
Environmental Engineering
Environmental Science
Signal Processing
Reducing Costs for Space- and Water-Heating in Multifamily Buildings
Critical technological challenges impact the cost and performance of decarbonized space- and water- heating solutions. This project is a multi-institution effort to develop, model, fabricate, and test…
2 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
(+1)
Summer - Full Time
Summer - Part Time
Project categories
Sustainability
(+4)
Engineering
Architecture
Climate Change
Mechanical Engineering
Sustainability
Ellison Institute Internship in Applied AI and Analytics
The Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), located in Los Angeles, researches and deploys advanced technology in pursuit of solving some of humanity’s most challenging and enduring problems in medical…
2 sp.
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1 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Mathematics
(+2)
Biology
Computer Science
Mathematics
Auburn/USDA Internship in EPG Visualizations and Analysis: AI, ML, and UI
Central to the US Department of Agriculture's mission is a deeper, fundamental understanding of agricultural and livestock pest arthropods, such as aphids and ticks, how they cause damage, and the…
2 sp.
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1 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Computer Science
Quantum Dot-Based Photovoltaics
We tailor the surface chemistry of PbS quantum dots and other semiconductors to allow solution processing and blade coating for the production of low-cost, ultra-thin, solid-state solar cells.
2 sp.
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1 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Materials Science
(+3)
Chemistry
Engineering
Physics
Materials Science
Is Pure Water a Mixture?
Water is simultaneously the most common liquid on earth and the weirdest, judging from the variety of its anomalous properties. For example, water has a density maximum at 4 degree Celsius, while…
2 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Physics
(+2)
Chemistry
Mathematics
Physics
'27 Kubota Research Fellowship in Chemistry
If you are a Mudd sophomore and a declared chemistry, chem/bio, or chem/climate major, you are eligible for the Kubota Research Fellowship in Chemistry. This fellowship provides research support to…
1 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Chemistry
Ant Wars: Can Native and Invasive Ants Coexist?
Ants play key roles in natural ecosystems, but many native ants are threatened by invasive Argentine ants. We'll build & deploy field cameras to discover how local harvester ants resist such invasion.
3 sp.
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0 appl.
Hours per week
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Computer Science
(+7)
Biology
Computer Science
Engineering
Computational Biology
Computer Vision
Data Science
Ecology
Natural Resources and Conservation
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