{"id":616,"date":"2025-04-18T14:36:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T19:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/grulab\/?page_id=616"},"modified":"2025-05-06T15:35:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T20:35:30","slug":"undergraduate-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/grulab\/undergraduate-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-vivid-purple-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-b8f7a6dab6eea14818f617e3c7887ec9\" style=\"line-height:0\">Who Can Join &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you a Tech student studying chemistry, chemical engineering, environmental chemistry, computational chemistry or physics, physics, computer science, mechanical engineering or adjacent fields?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our interdisciplinary lab will provide you with meaningful research experience at the intersection of multiple fields in order to investigate novel questions related to astrochemistry and atmospheric chemistry. 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