Come join RIT’s Research Experience for Undergraduates! Accepted participants will join a vibrant community of education researchers to conduct cutting-edge research in STEM Education. STEM Education Research combines scientific disciplinary expertise, educational. social-science methods, and cognitive and neuroscience theories to investigate and explain questions about student learning.

During the program students will engage in rigorous education research projects with the support and collaboration of research mentors. Through a variety of activities, participants will build their research, communication and professional skills to help prepare for graduate programs in STEM and STEM Education Research, careers in STEM and STEM Education. Participants in this program will disseminate their findings at conferences and through scholarly publications.

Participants will take part in a virtual Spring-Ahead session (March 18th through April 26th, 2024), to meet mentors, complete Human Subjects training, meet their peers and start planning summer research projects. The 9-week on-site experience will take place at the Rochester Institute of Technology, located in Rochester, New York. Students will earn a stipend totaling $6,000 and will stay in furnished apartments, free of charge.

• This opportunity is for undergraduate students interested in STEM Education Research.
• Applicants must be majoring in a STEM discipline (e.g. Biology) or majoring in Education with a minor in a STEM discipline (e.g. Education major with a math minor).
  

• Applicants must be current undergraduate students who will not graduate before December 1, 2024. Applicants must also be U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, or permanent residents.