Undergraduate Science Research at Claremont McKenna.
CMsci (Claremont McKenna Science) is CMC’s student-run research organization. Faculty-advised teams of undergraduates take on real problems in health, the environment, and physics.
Robert Day Sciences Center
Current Research
Health Team
Bacterial field incubation
A low-cost, portable incubator that tests bacterial samples for antibiotic resistance in the field, without costly lab equipment.
Environmental Team
Microbial responses to rain in dry soils
How soil microbes that release carbon dioxide or consume methane wake up when rain ends a Southern California summer.
Physics Team
Computer vision and biophysics
A two-camera pipeline that turns an athlete’s pitch, spike, or throw into 3D joint data, then models what makes it succeed.
Featured in CMC Currents
“CMsci is unique at CMC because it gives us the opportunity to pursue research projects…”
Heena Suleman ’29, Environmental Team, in CMC’s July 2026 profile of CMsci.
Join a research team
Analyst applications open every fall. Any major, any class year. No research experience required.
Start with a mentor
New to the Integrated Sciences? Our peer mentoring program pairs first-years with upperclassmen who have already been through it.