Student Projects

Each IRES student will work on a research project with the US faculty mentors and Chilean mentors. Structured mentoring is the primary mechanism to ensure excellent academic and social support for IRES students. In the pre-departure phase, US faculty mentors will introduce projects to students via zoom webinars, discuss the research plan with an IRES student at Rutgers in Week 1, and help her/him develop an outline as the research guide before traveling abroad. During IRES students’ stay at UAI (Week 2-10), each student will discuss the previous week’s results, identify problems and set specific goals for the upcoming week in the group and one-on-one meetings with primary and secondary mentors. After the international travel, US mentors will help the IRES students prepare abstracts and posters for submission to relevant professional conferences. Writing and disseminating research results will bring students’ research experience to the next level.

The projects briefly outlined in the subheadings on the left represent some of the areas available for students to explore in the program.