BLISS

BLISS*  is a summer residential program designed to stimulate community, creativity, and scholarship among a diverse cohort of undergraduate researchers. During the ten-week program approximately 15 Harvard students work full time on faculty-led social science research projects on campus or in the neighboring communities. BLISS provides on-campus housing and partial board, a stipend for expenses, and coverage of summer savings obligations for financial aid recipients; it also provides academic and professional development programming for the student Fellows (including lectures and discussions with distinguished faculty and professionals in a wide variety of fields, practical seminars, aand chance to present their research publicly), as well as a host of social activities.

The call for faculty project proposals goes out in early December (with a deadline in mid-January). The projects are posted for the students on this website, and the student applications are due in mid-February. (Students should visit the URAF website for more details about this and other summer programs.) Contact Jennifer Shephard for more information.

_{*Formerly ‘Behavioral Laboratory In the Social Sciences’, but this implies a limited scope: in fact, we seek projects from across the spectrum of social science fields.}