Three undergraduates from diverse backgrounds reflect on their recent participation in Cornell's Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) summer program at CLASSE -- the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education. This internship program provides an opportunity for students to see whether they’d like to pursue research after graduation, and allows them to be creative and solve real-world problems.
“The program provides high-quality research experiences for students across the country, which is of special importance for undergrads who would not easily find such opportunities at their home institutions. We are, therefore, glad to have about 50 percent participation from underrepresented groups.”-- Georg Hoffstaetter, professor of physics and the CLASSE REU program’s principal investigator.