Student Research Projects
A wide variety of student research opportunities are available with faculty across disciplines. The following list includes selected recent student research project highlights in science and mathematics.
Biology
- Ants on the Fly: Deconstructing the Ant Antenna
- Cataloging and Digitizing the Bird Specimen Collection at Middlebury College
- Characterizing the SloR-mntH Promoter Region Interaction in S. mutans
- Does This Tick You Off Too? Ecological Drivers of Tick Abundance and Lyme Disease Prevalence
- Investigating the Impact of SloR Binding on Streptococcus mutans Gene Expression
- The Smithsonian’s Maine Fur-Bearer Archeofauna Collections
- Validating a Role for Small Regulatory RNAs in the Streptococcus mutans SloR Regulon
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
- Characterizing the Functional and Structural Differences between Cytosolic and Exported Borrelia burgdorferi glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase
- Chemical-Genetic Dissection of Necroptosis
- Elucidating Structural Origins of Nonradiative Events in CdSe:CdS Nanocrystals
- Optimizing the Synthesis of a Methoxyamide Substrate to Explore New Photoredox Chemistry
- The Characterization of phosphofructokinases from Borrelia burgdorferi
- Towards a Proof of Concept Photoredox Coupling Reaction between Two Polypeptides
Computer Science
- Improving Quantum Algorithms on Easy Inputs
- Theoretical and Experimental Algorithms
Earth and Climate Science
- Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Equatorial Pacific’s Line Islands Region
- Using Neural Networks to Model Sea Surface Temperatures
Environmental Studies Program
- Cataloging and Digitizing the Bird Specimen Collection at Middlebury College
Geography
- Mapping the World: A Visual Introduction to Global Studies
Mathematics
- Toward a Better Understanding of Epilepsy: Modeling the Effect of Gap Junctions on Epilepsy
Neuroscience Program
- Interstrain Variation of Negative Affective Withdrawal from Cocaine
Physics
- Constructing a Laser-Scanning Confocal Microscope Using Curved Mirrors
- Direct Imaging of RNA loaded Lipid-Nanoparticles for RNA-based Vaccines
- Entanglement Entropy in Frustrated Quantum Ferromagnets
- Machine Learning to Reverse-Solve Schrodinger’s Equation
- Measuring the Superconducting Transition of a High-Temperature Superconductor
- Observing the Hall Effect in Semiconductors
- Taking 3D Pictures with a Pulsed Laser
- Using Machine Learning to Identify Supermassive Black Hole Powered Quasars
Psychology
- Computational Models of The Effects of Infraslow Oscillations on Neuron Ensemble Formation
- Developmental Consequences of C-Section Delivery in Prairie Voles (Microtus ochrogaster)
- Does Using Moral Foundation Language for Christians Increase Environmental Engagement
- Formula Hybrid Aerodynamics
- Memor-eyes; Bilateral Saccadic Eye Movements and Episodic Memory Retrieval
- Social Media Use Among Adolescents in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Talking About Pandemic Losses