Year 1

• Fall: Student receives commitment from a faculty mentor for guidance and direction in creating a research proposal and conducting research.
• Applications including research proposal are due to the program office in November.
• Winter: Science Honors Review Committee evaluates applications and research proposals.
• Winter: Students and Faculty are notified of acceptance into Science Honors Research Program
• Spring: Students accepted into Science Honors Research Program take Science Honors Junior Seminar.
• Spring: Students accepted into Science Honors Research Program begin mentored research and enroll in 1 or 2 credits of Research.

Summer:

• Faculty mentored student research for nine weeks simultaneous with summer school session. Faculty and students receive stipends.
• Students and faculty participate in weekly research brown bag lunches.
• Social activities are organized among faculty mentors and student researchers.
• Students are offered housing on campus for the summer.
• Students begin drafting the methods and introduction of their thesis.

Year 2

• Fall: Honors research continues with a complete honors thesis draft due to faculty mentors by the end of fall quarter. Student enrolls in the Capstone Science Honors Seminar.
• Winter: Honors Research continues with a final complete honors thesis due to the Director of the Science Honors Research Program by spring quarter.
• Fall & Winter: Student enrolls in Science Honors Research credits.
• Spring Quarter: Student enrolls in Science Honors Thesis credits. The honors thesis is completed and due in final form in May.
• Spring Quarter: Students give culminating presentation of honors thesis at SOURCE.
• Fall, Winter, or Spring Quarter: The honors thesis is presented at a professional conference.