Stony Brook University’s annual URECA/VIP Symposium highlighted the innovative work of 222 students and 24 multi-semester Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) teams, showcasing cross-disciplinary collaboration across fields such as humanities, social sciences, engineering, health sciences, and natural sciences. Projects ranged from an adaptive toy-car modification for children with disabilities (“Go Baby Go”) and a carnival-style physical therapy game to a BERT-based language model attention visualizer, each demonstrating how students work in diverse teams to solve real-world problems. The VIP model at Stony Brook fosters long-term, faculty-guided research, giving students valuable hands-on experience, encouraging interdisciplinary thinking, and strengthening career readiness through sustained engagement.

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