Undergraduate Research
At Pitt-Bradford, you won't be limited to learning just in a classroom. You'll also have many opportunities to conduct research. You'll work side by side with your professor in many of our academic majors, including biology, criminal justice, mathematics, sociology, chemistry and psychology.
You'll also have opportunities to present your research. Many of our students present at the annual Research and Scholarship Day that is held on campus each spring. Students are also selected each year to present at the annual Penn-York Undergraduate Research Conference.
Our students have researched
- The many personalities of remote work
- Traces of heavy metals in pine needles
- Coronary heart disease between humans and animals
- The link between thawing permafrost and excess greenhouse gases
- Social media's impact on self-esteem
- Perceptions of bullying
- The effects of divorce on adolescent mental health
- The intersection of forensic anthropology and artificial intelligence
- The psychological profile of the criminal brain
- Forensic genealogy
- Ethnotourism in Himalayan India
- Mindfulness in virtual reality
- Invasive plants on campus
- Doom scrolling on social media
- Gendered mental health stigma
- How parent supervision and peer dynamics shape adolescent risk behavior
- Access to mental health services in McKean County
- The effects of stress on academic success
- How music affects reading comprehension
And that's just the beginning. You may even get it published in an academic journal. Other students have. Your research opportunities are limited only by your imagination.
Student Research Grant Form and guidelines
Contact Dr. Warren Fass, Director of Undergraduate Research