Five Benefits of Student Research
(World News USA)

Over summer 2017, Alice Ready and Emma Rinn flew drones at the Weaver Dunes Preserve, collecting to help support the preserve`s mission. The summer before, Sam Madden worked in Eric Fort`s chemistry lab learning how to make molecules. Whitney Oachs examined the history of highways and protest, with a particular focus on the Rondo neighborhood. While these topics seem like they might have little in common, all these research projects were driven by undergraduate students at St. Thomas and made possible by grants from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. The research is geared toward training students to learn proper methods in their fields while simultaneously allowing them to...