RESEARCH & CLINIC
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WHY SHOULD GRADUATE STUDENTS HAVE ALL THE FUN?
RESEARCH By which we do not mean “spending a semester washing test tubes and staring at the back of a graduate student’s lab coat.” We mean professional grade, publishable, original work, done in collaboration with full-time, big-deal professors. And we mean you’ll do it—as early as your first year, perhaps, or during our expansive summer research pro- grams, or as a major contributor to a professor’s ongoing project, or for your senior research thesis or your Clinic experience. It’s not hard to see the practical benefits: you develop crucial skills (problem-solving, commu- nication, leadership, teamwork, etc.), gain applied experience, and push the boundary of knowledge a little further forward. But there’s more. We believe that science is a lived experience, a human practice—not simply a collection of facts and formulas and truths. You have to do it to understand it, to envision its future, to ask the next impossible, essential question.
THE CLINIC PROGRAM We started our first Clinic—a year-long in- vestigation of a research problem conducted on behalf of a nonprofit or corporate client—in 1963. Our students have worked for more than 350 clients—many of them Fortune 1000 companies—in more than 1,300 Clinics, and the program has become a model for engineering, mathematics and science schools around the country. How does it work? Clients pay more than $40,000 to the college, and a team of students gets to solve a real problem with real consequences. A faculty adviser provides guidance and makes sure no one gets hurt. A client liaison keeps tabs on the team’s progress. And the team spends a year—easily more than 1,200 work hours—doing what professionals do: talking, dreaming, planning, execut- ing, failing, starting again, leading, listening, freaking out, meeting dead- lines, making presentations and delivering, in the end, a functional, efficient, possibly groundbreaking solution. These aren’t amusing little exercises; they’re serious projects that often lead to patents, job offers and an ongo- ing relationship between the college and the client.
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