Analysis of artifacts from prehistoric and historic archaeological sites.  Archaeological science, particularly micro analysis in archaeology: soil chemistry, microartifact analysis, paleoethnobotany, ceramic thin sections.

Each summer the Psychology Department offers two or more undergraduates a Benton J. Underwood Summer Research Fellowship.  Students who accept these fellowships spend most of the summer working on research at Northwestern with a psychology professor. Both current juniors and current sophomores can apply. Priority is given to current juniors who are majoring in psychology, and work on an Underwood project often serves as the foundation for a senior thesis project.

Research in Chen Group has two main themes:

• Ultrafast electronic and geometric structural dynamics in photochemical reactions for solar energy conversion processes, such as photoinduced charge separation, water splitting and catalytical reactions;
• Electronic processes in organic and hybrid materials: Tracking and control ultrafast light induced energy and electron flow at molecular level and nanoscale for photovoltaic and molecular device applications.

The CLP Lambert Fellows Program is designed to provide multi-year funding for hands-on laboratory research for rising sophomores and juniors majoring in Chemistry under the mentorship of CLP faculty members.  The overall goal of the program is to create a cadre of enthusiastic, well-trained undergraduates who will be entrepreneurial in their approach to research. Fellowships will begin in the summer and continue throughout the academic year for a minimum period of two years.