Senior Year Research Projects
Senior Year Research Projects (SYRPs) provide students with the opportunity to apply their learning to complex real-world situations through focused research or advanced creative projects. Students culminate their academic careers through the Senior Year Research Project. Here are some recent examples of SYRPs:
Olivia Bates ’22: Recipes for The Earth and Her People: A Cookbook
Eric Bailey ’22: An Assessment and Report of Paddlers Impacts on Wildlife and Surrounding Areas Along Portions of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail in Northern Vermont
Bryan Emery ’22: Updating and Professionalizing Green Bikes
Paige Harris ’22: Ethical Slaughter and Value-Added Meat Production
Conner Quinn ’22: Research in aquatic hyphomycete associations with streambanks differing in vegetation
Anushka Saraswat ’22: The Causes and Aftermath of Global Immigration with a focus on Vermont
Julien Wilder ’22: Aesthetic and Practical Design: the construction of mobile medicine chests
Amelia Zenerino ’21: An illustrated guide to the vascular flora along Cane’s Run through the Brown Farm: Lacie, KY.
Jennifer Palmer ’21: Seed Saving for the Market Garden and Outreach to the Community with Seed Saving Workshops.
Niveditha Raju ’21: Ecosomatics: Literature Review, Embodied Research, and Program Design
Coursework-Only Option
Students may petition the Dean of Academics to pursue a coursework-only option, in lieu of a capstone project, if they can demonstrate that they have successfully completed a series of upper-level courses that create a comparable capstone experience. If they are interested in this option, students should consult the Student Handbook for more details about developing a coursework-only petition.
