Tufts Undergrad Research in Economics or IR

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I’m just curious if anyone knows how difficult it is to do research is at Tufts as an undergrad. How many research opportunities are available to underclassmen and what is the quality of the research being done? I’m more curious in economics and IR or social science if anything.

Thanks!

[1012mom]

Both my DDs did undergrad research, one in IR one in child development. Serious work, funded by the University. The iR DD received grant to conduct research abroad.

[Mastadon]

2013 Economics Nobel Laureate Eugene Fama performed undergrad research that put him on the path to the Nobel Prize.

In the late 1950s, Harry Ernst, a Tufts economics professor, was looking for ways to boost the stock market forecasting business he ran on the side. He turned to one of his promising undergraduates. “Can you design some models to beat the market?” Ernst asked Eugene Fama, a senior and student athlete who had only recently switched his academic interests from Romance languages to economics. Both men were puzzled when Fama’s models failed to work. Figuring out why would put Fama onto a research track that brought him to the Stockholm Concert Hall this past December to accept his share of the 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

http://emerald.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/winter2014/features/famas-market.html

In my last two years at Tufts, I went heavy on economics. The professors, as teachers, were as inspiring as the research stars I later profited from at the University of Chicago.

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2013/fama-bio.html