2025 Summer Research Program and Symposium
The 2025 Summer Research Program included 140 research assistants working with faculty mentors from various disciplines on the Middlebury campus.
Research assistant positions are generally full-time for 8-10 weeks and include training, workshops, hands-on research, and some Vermont summer fun. See the full schedule of activities.
The program opened with a luncheon in June and closed with a symposium on July 31, 2025 where research assistants presented their discoveries in a poster session. Middlebury community members can access the symposium’s program.
Positions are made possible by grant and donor funding. Departments that participated in the summer research program this year included:
American Studies (1)
Arabic (2)
Biology (22)
Chemistry (18)
Chinese (1)
Computer Science (11)
Earth and Climate Sciences (3)
Economics (7)
English (1)
Environmental Studies (2)
French and Francophone Studies (1)
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (3)
Geography (2)
History (2)
International & Global Studies (1)
Japanese Studies (3)
Luso-Hispanic Studies (1)
Mathematics and
Statistics (13)
Modern Hebrew and Israeli Society (2)
Music (1)
Neuroscience (8)
Philosophy (1)
Physics (16)
Political Science (5)
Psychology (9)
Religion (1)
Russian (1)
Sociology (2)
Theater (2)
Writing and Rhetoric (1)