Duke University | Howard Hughes Undergraduate Program
Undergraduate Research
"Undergraduates at a research university are engaged with faculty and with other students at the frontiers of knowledge and understanding. Looking together at pressing problems from multiple perspectives, they develop improvements to the quality of life in their communities, their nations, and their world."
George L. McLendon - Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences and Dean of Trinity College
From their first year at Duke, undergraduates have the opportunity to engage in original research that helps them develop the intellectual skills essential for success in our information-intensive world.
Mentored by our world-class faculty, students begin to have daily contact with the inquiry process, to collaborate with professors and graduate students, and to become experts as a result of the research they conduct.
Student Quotations
“I have learned how doing experiments in a research lab is an entirely different–and dare I say more stimulating–experience than doing experiments in class labs.” — Julie Sogani, 2007 Howard Hughes Research Fellow
"I think it's the most useful kind of learning for a biology student… By working in a lab, you're really learning how to solve problems, and at the same time you're contributing to the body of knowledge of all scientists. So you learn not just facts but also skills." — Felicia Walton, Trinity ‘07