Research Opportunities for Undergraduates

Benefits of participating in research include:

• Discover new career interests
• Gain marketable skills useful in many careers
• Prepare for graduate school
• Improve writing and reasoning skills
• Build presentation and visual information skills
• Boost confidence in public speaking
• Get published in academic journals as an author or co-author
• Develop relationships with faculty mentors and other collaborators
• Create tangible products (like games or artwork)
• Research Opportunities for Undergraduate Students at Adelphi

Adelphi University offers undergraduate students many ways to get involved in research. 

Lab and Research Assistant Positions

Students of all majors have a chance to work or volunteer as lab and research assistants in faculty labs. These hands-on experiences might involve collecting, cleaning and analyzing data; performing and observing experiments; and writing and editing reports.

See how one Adelphi lab gives research opportunities to students: The Fareri Lab for Social Neuroscience and Decision-Making.

Travel Study With Faculty Members

Many Adelphi academic programs offer travel-study experiences, some of which are related to their professor’s research interests. For example, Michael D’Emic, PhD, an assistant professor of biology, offers a three-credit summer archaeological field course, which takes students out west to dig for fossils. 

Class Projects, Independent Study and Service Work

Across disciplines, many Adelphi faculty members create coursework and class activities around research initiatives. This hands-on experience broadens students’ understanding of a topic, while allowing them to see the issue being tackled in action. Students in majors of all kinds also can enroll in an independent study course, which often revolves around a research project.