Pollentia Undergraduate Research Expedition (PURE)
The goal of this special academic endeavor is faculty/student research in a global academic and cultural context. The Pollentia Undergraduate Research Expedition is not a ‘program’ as such but rather a context or umbrella under which UP faculty and students can undertake discipline specific research projects abroad that correspond naturally to the broad framework of an archaeological excavation that involves professionals, students, and volunteers in all the physical and human sciences that pertain to the study, preservation, and conservation of cultural heritage. While the University of Barcelona brings the archaeological expertise, faculty/student research teams from UP add – always under the direction and supervision of the Pollentia Excavartion Co-Directors Professors Miguel Ángel Cau and Esther Álvarez – other discipline specific research agenda that complement archaeological findings.
About the UP Directors:
Rev. H. Richard Rutherford, C.S.C., Professor Emeritus, serves as director of the Initiative for Christian Antiquity in the Digital Age and as coordinator of the Pollentia effort.
Dr. Ronda S. Bard, Ph.D., Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, serves as the onsite program director.
