Sixty-six students have been awarded the Provost’s Undergraduate Student Summer Stipend of $1,500. The program, designed to engage undergraduate students directly in research, scholarly, and creative activity with a sponsoring mentor professor, generated a dazzling array of projects, demonstrating a high level of sophistication.
Examples include the hibernation muscle physiology in gold-mantled ground squirrels (and the implications for the prevention of muscle disuse atrophy) to the development and testing of liquid oxygen and liquid methane to fuel rockets (the combination of which is currently a leading candidate for the second generation of vehicles destined for the moon).
Reports of work accomplished will be forthcoming during the Fall 2007 semester.
