{"id":331,"date":"2015-11-19T18:08:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T23:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eckerdstaging.com\/environmental-studies\/?page_id=331"},"modified":"2025-03-28T11:21:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:21:48","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/environmental-studies\/opportunities\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”48″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n

Research<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”32″][vc_column_text]Research experience is available to Environmental Studies majors to enhance the classroom learning. The benefits of doing research as an undergraduate include preparation for graduate level study, development of your analytical and critical thinking, creation of new knowledge, and exploration of possible career fields. Some of the options available are:[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”32″][vc_column_text]\n

Summer Research<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”32″][vc_column_text]Grants allow some faculty members to pay students as summer researchers working closely with professors on their research. In addition, students may apply during their sophomore year to be a Ford Scholar<\/strong>. This scholarship program provides a stipend, free housing during the summer after their junior year, and money for supplies or travel.[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”32″][tabbed_section style=”default” tab_change_animation=”fade” alignment=”left” spacing=”default” tab_color=”Accent-Color” vs_content_animation=”fade” vs_link_animation=”opacity” vs_navigation_alignment=”left” vs_navigation_width_2=”25%” vs_navigation_func=”default” vs_navigation_width=”regular” vs_navigation_spacing=”15px” vs_navigation_mobile_display=”visible” vs_tab_spacing=”5%”][tab icon_family=”none” title=”Ford Apprentice” tab_id=”1743175126952-3″ id=”1743175126952-0″][vc_column_text]The Ford Apprentice Scholars Program in Eckerd College<\/a> was launched by a grant from the Ford Foundation in 1987, sustained by a second Ford grant in 1991 and is now supported by the College. Each year up to twenty rising Juniors are given the opportunity to participate in a two year course of study designed to prepare them for graduate school and to pursue a career in college or university teaching. Faculty select and sponsor the participants on the basis of academic achievement, intellectual promise, and a willingness to explore college teaching as career. The program involves special coursework, summer research in collaboration with a faculty sponsor, a major project during the Senior year, and supervised teaching experience. Recent research topics:<\/p>\n