Austin College actively supports and encourages scholarship in both students and faculty. Research helps students to gain a better understanding of the field as well as gain and refine skills for professional life, graduate school, and beyond.
- The number of students involved in on-campus student/faculty collaborative research in physics, chemistry, biology, and environmental studies has doubled in the past five years.
- From 2002 to 2007, almost 75 percent of students in the sciences were involved in some type of student-faculty research — compared to 25 percent from 1997 to 2001.
- Since 2005, the Science Division Poster Symposium has had over 150 student participants and has spurred a dramatic increase in off-campus presentations among our students (40 since 2005) with more student abstracts submitted to present at meetings in the fall of 2009.
- Since 2006, Austin College student-faculty collaborative research projects (involving eight faculty and 18 students) in the sciences have resulted in seven scholarly articles published in peer reviewed scientific journals.
- Since 2003, 24 Austin College math and science students have presented research findings on topics ranging from cell biology and organogels to geophysics to Snell Geometries at national and regional conferences.
