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Did you know the Honors College is built on four pillars?
- Interdisciplinary academics
- Undergraduate research
- Leadership development
- Community and global experiences
Each week, we will include a profile of a student who exemplifies one of our pillars, or primary tenets. We are now taking a look at Undergraduate Research.
Students in the Purdue Honors College are encouraged to get started in research as soon as possible. You will discover
first-hand how research contributes to the advancement of human knowledge. It's a change of pace from formal classroom activities, a way to gain skills applicable to both research and non-research careers.
Studies show that students who engage in research are:
- Twice as likely to graduate
- Five-times more likely to go on to graduate school
- Have more successful careers after graduation
An analysis by Purdue's Office of the Provost concluded that about
30 percent of Purdue undergraduates have at least one research experience during their time at Purdue.
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Undergraduate Research: Jake Hawes
On a mission to bring safe water to the Dominican Republic
Honors College student Jake Hawes is part of a Purdue team working to bring safe drinking water to the Domincian Republic. They are using sand filtration, low-pressure membrane filtration and chlorination to create a potentially life-saving water system at a primary school there.
Hawes will return to the Dominican Republic in December to tweak parts of the system design to improve water taste. It's an opportunity to put one of his research projects to the test.
Hawes has been working with Professor Ernest Blatchley, from the College of Engineering, on disinfection technologies that could be used to reduce the need for chlorination.
"It's been really inspiring for me to see the transition from something I was working on in the lab, and am still working on, to talking about practical implementation," Hawes said.
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