Smith offers many unique research opportunities to undergraduates in most academic disciplines, from the sciences to the humanities and the arts. The ways in which students can conduct research, beginning even in their first year, varies from assisting faculty with their research endeavors to participating in the Summer Research Fellows Program to initiating their own projects of inquiry. What's more, the AEMES program provides support for students who are underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering and math fields. At Smith, student research is a way of exploring what it means to be a scholar.