Group Research Practicum - Winter 2024

Target Students: Grade 9-12 students

Starts from January and lasts for 12 weeks

Structure:

  • 6 group sessions with Faculty Advisor

  • 6 1-on-1 sessions with Teaching Assistant

  • 3 recorded methodology courses

  • [STEM]

    Aerospace Engineering: Crafting the Future of Flight

    Faculty Advisor: Adjunct Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

  • [STEM]

    The Management of Medical Emergencies in Zero Gravity and for Long-term Space Missions

    Faculty Advisor: Resident Physician, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic; MD, Baylor College of Medicine

  • [STEM] Astronomy

    Exoplanets: Unveiling Alien Worlds and The Quest for a Second Earth

    Faculty Advisor: Independent researcher; Post doctoral researcher, UCLA and CSUN; Ph.D., Astronomy and Astrophysics, Harvard

  • [STEM] Neuroscience and Psychology

    Neuroscience and Psychology: How the Brain Works in Learning and Memory

    Faculty Advisor: Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego

  • [STEM] Public Health

    Living with Covid-19: Public Health Policy in China and the USA

    Faculty Advisor: Former Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine

  • [STEM] Applied Math and AI

    Applied Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning: Theories and Applications

    Faculty Advisor: Professor, Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • [STEM] Cancer Biology

    Fundamentals of Cancer Biology

    Faculty Advisor: Associate Professor, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis

  • [STEM] Artificial Intelligence

    Human-Machine Teaming: Applications, Issues, and Case Studies

    Faculty Advisor: Adjunct Faculty, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

  • [STEM] Music and Science

    Music as Medicine: the Connections between Musical Sound and Science

    Faculty Advisor: Former Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine

  • [STEM] Engineering

    Designing safer vehicles to achieve vision zero in the era of Connected, Autonomous, Shared, and Electric (CASE) Vehicles

    Faculty Advisor: Principal Scientist at a leading car manufacturer

  • [STEM]

    Algorithms, Data Structures and Python

    Faculty Advisor: Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • [Humanities and Social Science] International Relations and History

    (Closed) War and Peace: International Relations through the Ages

    Faculty Advisor: Associate Researcher, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

  • [Humanities and Social Science]

    Global Racism and Anti-Racism: Far-Right Movements, Conspiracies, and Structural Injustice Around the Globe

    Faculty Advisor: Researcher PhD candidate, University of Pennsylvania; Head Teacher in History, Leiden University, 2019

  • [Humanities and Social Science] Humanitarianism

    Analyzing Humanitarian Interventions: A Toolkit for Understanding Humanitarian Action in the Past, Present, and Future

    Faculty Advisor: Lecturer, International and Comparative Studies, University of Michigan

  • [Humanities and Social Science] Racial Studies

    Social Injustice in Modern America: Understanding the Historical, Cultural, Economic, and Legal Factors behind

    Faculty Advisor: Lorna Goodison Collegiate Professor of African, American and African Studies, Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan

  • [Humanities and Social Science] Digital Game and Society

    Digital Games: History, Business, and Social Impact

    Faculty Advisor: Associate Professor, Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota

  • [Humanities and Social Science]

    (Application Closed) Unlocking History's Secrets: A Journey of Discovery through Personal Narratives and Historical Events

    Faculty Advisor: PhD Candidate, Princeton University; Fulbright Research Fellow

  • [Humanities and Social Science] Education

    From Plato to Marx: Theory of Education Throughout Time

    Faculty Advisor: PhD candidate in Medieval Studies, Harvard University

  • [Business] Finance

    A Deep Dive into the Stock Market

    Faculty Advisor: Research economist, Central Bank of Mexico

  • [Business]

    Angel Investing and Venture Capital

    Faculty Advisor: Former Professor of Dartmouth Tuck Business School; Former Director of MD-MBA program, Dartmouth

  • [Art and Architecture] Architecture and Urban Design

    Architecture and the City: Sustainable Urban Design that Inspires

    Faculty Advisor: Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech