Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Following are links to summer research opportunities for undergraduates. Click on the link for more information and the application process. If you have any questions or need assistance please contact Deb Easterly, eastdebb@isu.edu, or 208/282-2618.
For specific questions, please visit the appropriate website:
- The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) Internship Opportunities:
- Environmental Health Research Experience Program (EH REP)
at the University of Washington Seattle -
10 Paid Undergraduate Summer Research Internships”- Are you interested in hands-on Hyperspectral Imaging (HI) experience and learning how to work with interdisciplinary teams? Here is an opportunity. The GeoTREE Center (www.geotree.uni.edu) at the University of Northern Iowa received a NSF REU award to introduce young scientists to a highly interdisciplinary research environment with fundamental and applied research in hyperspectral imaging (HI). HI is widely used in various disciplines such as Earth Science, Environmental Science, Biology, Forestry, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geographic Information Science (GISc), and more. If you interested, application and more information is available online at http://www.geotree.uni.edu/REU/
- RUTGERS, The State University of New Jersey, invites chemistry undergraduates to apply for our highly successful SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM, RiSE (Research in Science and Engineering), http://rise.rutgers.edu and www.facebook.com/rutgers.rise. We are seeking sophomores, juniors, and non-graduating seniors with strong academic credentials, a passion for research, and an interest in graduate school. We particularly encourage applications from students from underrepresented or disadvantaged backgrounds.
- National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduate Programs
(REUs) for all sciences, and Earth Sciences REU Opportunities
This internship Program is designed to introduce undergraduate and graduate students to the challenges of conducting energy research. It is an opportunity to network with world-class scientists using world-class equipment, to expand knowledge of your major field of study and to expose oneself to new areas of basic and applied research. Participants interact daily with assigned mentors who guide research activities during the internship. These research activities help transition classroom theory into hands-on experience, helping solve today’s pressing scientific questions. For more information visit: http://www.orau.gov/netl/PIP.htm. Applications accepted anytime.
- Sheehan Geophysics Research Group Listing of Undergraduate Summer Internships
in Geological Sciences - The LSU Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, is an innovative
research environment, advancing computational sciences, technologies and the
disciplines they touch.
Researchers at CCT use the advanced cyberinfrastructure -- high-speed
networks, high-performance computing, advanced data storage and analysis and
hardware and software development -- available on campus to enable research
in many different fields.
By uniting researchers from diverse disciplines, ideas and expertise are
disseminated across LSU departments to foster knowledge and invention.
For more information on the CCT, visit:
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/home - Texas A&M NSF-REU Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Biochemistry, Sociology, Engineering http://www.tamu.edu
- Please invite your undergraduates to apply to the UNLV REU program in Environmental Microbiology (http://faculty.unlv.edu/microreu/)
Students collaborate with faculty mentors in developing and carrying out hypothesis-based projects on microorganisms from diverse habitats such as hot springs, the deep terrestrial subsurface, hypersaline lakes, arid soils, and ephemeral water sources. Students may also choose to explore the mechanisms of magnetotaxis, sporulation, soil-forming processes, microbial adaptation to stressful and non-host environments, or the dynamics between primary producers and consumers. At the conclusion of the program, students will present their research results at a scientific colloquium. Students will receive a $5,000 salary, housing and a travel subsidy.
10 week program: May 26 - Aug 2, 2013
Application deadline: Friday Feb 15, 2013
A podcast with tips on submitting a competitive application is available
Please distribute to any interested student.
Happy New Year!
Kurt M. Regner, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Coordinator
School of Life Sciences
White Hall 212
UNLV
4505 Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89154-4004
Phone: 702.895.1071
Fax: 702.895.3956
http://faculty.unlv.edu/wpmu/kregner/
http://faculty.unlv.edu/microreu/ - Check out the following NASA opportunities for the education community. Full descriptions are listed below.
National Space Biomedical Research Institute Summer Internship Program
Audience: Higher Education Educators and Students
Application Deadline: Dec. 31, 2012
Student Spaceflight Experiments Program -- Mission 4 to the International Space Station
Audience: 5-Higher Education Educators and Students
Inquiry Deadline: Dec. 31, 2012
NASA Social Event at Next Landsat Launch
Audience: All Educators and Students 18+ Years Old
Registration Deadline: Noon EST on Jan. 2, 2013
Women in STEM High School Aerospace Scholars
Audience: Female High School Juniors
Deadline: Jan. 3, 2013
Free Smithsonian's Stars Lecture Series
Audience: All Educators and 9-Higher Education Students
Next Lecture Date: Jan. 5, 2013
2013 NASA and Worcester Polytechnic Institute Sample Return Robot Challenge
Audience: Higher Education Educators and Students
Early Bird Registration Deadline: Jan. 7, 2013
Registration Open for the 20th Annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race
Audience: 9-12 & Higher Education Educators and Students
Registration Deadline for International Teams: Jan. 7, 2013
Registration Deadline for U.S. Teams: Feb. 4, 2013
Analyzing Solar Energy Graphs: MY NASA DATA Web Seminar
Audience: 9-12 and Informal Educators
Event Date: Jan. 8, 2013
Teaching From Space Office Seeks Educators for MicroGravity eXperience
Audience: K-12 Educators
Proposal Deadline: Jan. 9, 2013
International Space Station Research Opportunity for Higher Education Organizations
Audience: Higher Education Community
Deadline to Submit White Papers: Jan. 23, 2013
2013 Space Exploration Educators Conference
Audience: K-12 Educators
Event Date: Feb. 7-9, 2013 - National Space Biomedical Research Institute Summer Internship Program
Interns selected for the NSBRI’s summer program join ongoing project activities and gain hands-on experience in space biomedical research at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas; Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio; or Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The program is open to graduate students, medical students and undergraduate students who have completed their second year of studies.
Applicants are asked to submit a curriculum vitae or resume, a letter of interest, two letters of recommendation, and college transcripts. Applicants must be available from May 27 through Aug. 2, 2013.The program is open to U.S. citizens.
Applications for the 2013 program are due Dec. 31, 2012.
For more information and to apply online, visit http://www.nsbri.org/summerinternship/. Questions about this opportunity should be directed to info@nsbri.org. - Student Spaceflight Experiments Program -- Mission 4 to the International Space Station
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education, in partnership with NanoRacks LLC, announce a new opportunity for communities across the U.S. and space station partner nations. The newest Student Spaceflight Experiments Program, or SSEP, flight opportunity, Mission 4 to the International Space Station, or ISS, gives students across a community the ability to design and propose real experiments to fly in low Earth orbit on the International Space Station.
Each participating community will be provided a real microgravity research mini-laboratory capable of supporting a single microgravity experiment, and all launch services to fly the mini-lab to the space station in fall 2013 and return it to Earth. An experiment design competition in each community -- engaging 300+ students -- allows student teams to design and proposereal experiments vying for their community’s reserved mini-lab. Content resources for teachers and students support foundational instruction on science in microgravity and experimental design. Additional SSEP programming leverages the experiment design competition to engage the community, embracing a learning community model for science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, education.
This competition is open to students in grades 5-12 and college. Informal education groups and organizations are also encouraged to participate. Interested communities must inquire about the program no later than Dec. 31, 2012. The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education is available to help interested communities in the U.S. secure the needed funding.
The first two SSEP flight opportunities saw experiments flown on the final flights of space shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis. These missions engaged 27 communities, providing a combined 30,700 students in grades 5-14 the opportunity to participate, 977 student team proposals were received and 27 experiments were selected and flown on the shuttles. SSEP Missions 1, 2 and 3 to the International Space Station engaged 32 communities, providing 69,100 students in grades 5-14 the opportunity to participate, 3,370 student team proposals were received and 39 experiments were flown to space station on the SpaceX Dragon vehicle. The Mission 3 payload of 17 experiments is expected to fly to the space station in April 2013.
To learn more about this opportunity, visit the SSEP Mission 4 to International Space Station National Announcement of Opportunity at http://ssep.ncesse.org/2012/11/announcing-student-spaceflight-experiment-program-ssep-mission-4-to-the-international-space-station-for-2013/.
SSEP is a program of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education in the U.S., and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education internationally. It is enabled through a strategic partnership with NanoRacks LLC working with NASA under a Space Act Agreement as part of the utilization of the International Space Station as a national laboratory. TheCenter for the Advancement of Science in Space is a National Partner on SSEP.
If you have any questions about this opportunity, please email SSEP National Program Director Jeff Goldstein atjeffgoldstein@ncesse.org. - Women in STEM High School Aerospace Scholars
Engineer your dream job! The adventure begins in 2013. NASA wants you to become part of the workforce of tomorrow as we offer the opportunity to dream, engineer and WISH. The Women in STEM High School Aerospace Scholars, or WISH, project offers a one-of-a-kind experience for female high school juniors to jump-start their future by engaging in opportunities relating to science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Participation starts in an online community and culminates with a summer experience at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, during the summer of 2013. Get ready to collaborate with girls from across the country as you complete online activities, design unique projects, work with NASA personnel and present mission accomplishments. Start your dream now!
To be eligible, applicants must be:
-- U.S. citizens.
-- Female high school juniors during the 2012-2013 school year.
-- Interested and excited about science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
-- Committed to a one-year relationship with NASA's Johnson Space Center.
-- Able to access the Internet and email (at home, school or public library).
-- A scholar with a cumulative GPA of 3.25/4.0 or higher.
The application deadline has been extended to Jan. 3, 2013.
For more information and to download the application, visit http://wish.aerospacescholars.org/.
Questions should be directed to JSC-NHAS@mail.nasa.gov. - 2013 NASA and Worcester Polytechnic Institute Sample Return Robot Challenge
NASA and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass., are seeking teams to compete in a robot technology demonstration competition with a potential $1.5 million prize purse.
During the Sample Return Robot Challenge, teams will compete to demonstrate a robot that can locate and retrieve geologic samples from a wide and varied terrain without human control. The objective of the competition is to encourage innovations in automatic navigation and robotic manipulator technologies. Innovations stemming from this challenge may improve NASA's capability to explore a variety of destinations in space, as well as enhance the nation's robotic technology for use in industries and applications on Earth.
NASA provides the prize money to the winning team as part of the agency's Centennial Challenges competitions, which seek unconventional solutions to problems of interest to the agency and the nation. While NASA provides the prize purse, the competitions are managed by nonprofit organizations that cover the cost of operations through commercial or private sponsorships. The competition is planned for June 2013 in Worcester and is anticipated to attract hundreds of competitors from industry and academia nationwide.
Early bird registration and fees for the competition are due by Jan. 7, 2013. Teams wishing to register after this date are subject to approval by the judging committee.
For more information about the Sample Return Robot Challenge and to register online for the competition, visithttp://challenge.wpi.edu.
The Centennial Challenges program is part of NASA's Space Technology Program, which is innovating, developing, testing and flying hardware for use in NASA's future missions. NASA's Space Technology Program and the Centennial Challenges are creating new technological solutions for NASA and our nation's future. For more information about NASA's Centennial Challenges and the Space
Technology Program, visit http://www.nasa.gov/challenges.
Questions about the Sample Return Robot Challenge should be sent to challenge@wpi.edu. - Registration Open for the 20th Annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race
Registration is open for the 20th Annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race. High school and college students are challenged to design and build a vehicle that addresses a series of engineering problems similar to those faced by the original lunar-roving vehicle team. Each school may enter up to two teams. International teams are limited to 10 teams per country. The race will take place April 25-27, 2013, in Huntsville, Ala., at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.
International teams must register by Jan. 7, 2013. U.S. teams must register by Feb. 4, 2013.
For more information about the competition and to register online, visit http://moonbuggy.msfc.nasa.gov/index.html.
International teams with questions about this event and registration should email Marilyn Lewis atMarilyn.H.Lewis@nasa.gov. U.S. teams with questions should contact Diedra Williams at Diedra.A.Williams@nasa.gov. - International Space Station Research Opportunity for Higher Education Organizations
Conduct research in space and make new discoveries! The adventure begins in 2013. The International Space Station NASA Education Projects Office has released a solicitation for proposals of educational experiments relating to science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, that utilize the unique microgravity platform of the space station.
Proposals are being accepted from higher education institutions or consortia of organizations serving the higher education community. Proposals must align with space station program research priorities in technology, biology, biotechnology and physical sciences. Experiment ideas also must address innovative, meaningful and enduring research and technology development activities with STEM-based context.
White papers must be submitted by 4 p.m. CST on Jan. 23, 2013. Full proposals are due Feb. 20, 2013.
For more information, visit http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?method=init&solId={8626F554-923E-4797-DEE7-89CF3988FEE3}&path=open.
Questions about this solicitation should be directed to Janejit T. Gensler at Janejit.t.gensler@nasa.gov. - Funding Opportunity Title: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) NIST Gaithersburg Programs2013-NIST-SURF-G-01 FFO/Full Announcement