<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2021/surf-recap-2021.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>10/01/2021</pubDate><title>Students Reflect on Opportunities Created through Faculty-Mentored Research</title><description>The University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program has enabled a dozen students from diverse majors to collaborate with faculty mentors while gaining meaningful hands-on research experience.</description><hide-description/><author>Renee Chmiel, Office of Marketing and Communications</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>October 1, 2021</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/news/non-college-specific/blog/2021/surf-lab.jpg" alt="Image of a Student doing research in a lab."/></image><image-caption>The University’s SURF program enables students to gain meaningful hands-on research experience.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2021</tag></tags></item>