Undergraduate Research Opportunities

There are a couple ways students can secure research opportunities, including connecting with an office/department, connecting with a lab on campus, and connecting with a faculty member conducting research.

Here are a few places you can reach out to about undergraduate research:

• The VT Office of Undergraduate Research (general resource for helping students locate research opportunities)

• The Mims Research Lab in Biology (conducts ongoing freshwater research)

• The Carey Lab in Biology (conducts ongoing freshwater research)

• Labs in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (various)

• Research in CNRE (especially in FREC and FIW)

• Dr. Kevin McGuire, who can provide more information about opportunities with the Virginia Water Resources Research Center 

• WRPM faculty mentors and professors you know from past classes are great resources for ideas and may have some research happening now

• Dr. Gannon has ongoing hydroinformatics research

The Virginia Water Resources Research Center Internship Program is a semester-long paid internship for undergraduate students. 

Other research opportunities are posted in the Advising Center newsletter and the jobs/internships newsletter. 

A related opportunity are the on-campus internships with the VT Office of Sustainability.