Research

Research is pivotal to the Pitzer-Scripps academic experience. It’s where classroom learning is transformed into lab and field discovery, where theory becomes practice, and where scientific questions are answered. All majors except for the dual engineering program pursue a senior thesis project; this experience will provide a capstone to your education and help you to build the foundation for graduate school or professional research work.

You will be strongly supported in your research by your collaborators – our faculty – all of whom do research and offer a wide range of projects to get involved with. In addition to research opportunities during the school year, we offer an extensive summer research program, in which students receive paid 8-10-week fellowships to work with faculty throughout the department.

At Scripps-Pitzer, you’ll have access to fully equipped research labs and the diverse instrumentation required to perform leading-edge scientific research. Research happens here, and you’re the one who will make it happen. 

A shared equipment list can be found here.

Please visit the individual faculty pages on each of the discipline tabs above to learn more about research going on in our department.