Each summer, a number of Lawrence students are provided the opportunity to conduct sophisticated, "hands on" research in collaboration with or under the supervision of science faculty members.
On August 16, 2005, 20 students presented their research in an all-day symposium before an audience of peers and professors in Science Hall. Topics ranged from the physics of non-uniform strings and the study of inflammatory processes involved in rhinovirus-induced exacerbation of asthma, to the effects of zebra mussels on the aquatic ecosystems of local waterways and the use of scanning tunneling spectroscopy for imaging single walled carbon naotubes.