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 - Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates in Environmental Microbiology at UNLV is now accepting applications. NSF supported program provides undergraduates with an opportunity to perform independent research under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Students receive a $5,000 stipend ($500 per week), travel subsidy, and complimentary housing in a UNLV dormitory. The program dates are June 6 to Aug 12, 2011. Please direct your students to the list of mentors and the on-line application at http://sols.unlv.edu/reu_main.html The deadline for applications is Friday March 11, 2011. A complete application includes a one-page career essay, transcripts, and two letters of recommendation from science faculty.
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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/
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REU 2012 Summer Program in Data Intensive Computing Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina
Program Dates
June 4, 2012 - July 27, 2012 (end date can vary)
Application review will begin on March 8, 2012. Applications will be accepted until all positions are filled.
Undergraduate computing, engineering, and science students, come join our REU summer program on data intensive computing. Students will work in a team environment on one of several projects in areas of complex systems modeling, medical informatics, the Intelligent River project, Next Generation Sequencing, software engineering, and video game development. A key component of our program is the Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Bootcamp, which meets for a few hours each week during the first
weeks of the summer. In the CI Bootcamp, students will learn computing technologies and
research tools that will be essential for success in graduate school. Students will be matched with a faculty mentor during the first weeks of the summer program, and each student will participate in
a focused research project. For more information and to apply, see:
http://www.cs.clemson.edu/reu
Send questions to Dr. Amy Apon, aapon@clemson.edu
Amy Apon, Ph.D. (aapon@clemson.edu)
Professor and Chair, Division of Computer Science, School of Computing
Clemson University
201 McAdams
Phone: 864-656-5769 -
The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) is offering two paid summer
research internships in 2012: Undergraduate Studies in Earthquake Information Technology (UseIT) is an 8-week
team-based undergraduate research program that allows students to work in
multi-disciplinary collaborative teams to tackle a scientific "Grand Challenge"
where they use the advanced tools of information technology to solve important
problems in interdisciplinary earthquake research. During the 2011 internship
the focus of the program was to develop a Seismic Sequence Visualization System
based on SCEC-VDO and GIS that can display earthquake sequences, monitor their
evolution in space and time, and assess their hazards and risks. SCEC-VDO is the
SCEC intern-developed visualization software that allows the user to see
earthquake related phenomena in three dimensions.
The SCEC Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) is an 8-10 week program
that pairs a student, one-on-one, to conduct research with a pre-eminent
earthquake scientist or specialist. Many SURE interns also have the opportunity
to work alongside graduate students and post-doctoral researchers, and thus gain
the special perspective of these early career professionals.
Priority application deadline for both programs is: 27 February 2012
Learn more about and apply to UseIT and SURE at: http://www.scec.org/internships
Questions? Send a message to: internships@scec.org - 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.
- Research Experiences in the Solid Earth Sciences for Students (RESESS) is an
11-week paid internship program based in Boulder, Colorado, in which interns do
research on a project of interest to them with a scientist at the U.S.
Geological Survey, University of Colorado, NOAA, or UNAVCO. Topics include
geology, geomorphology, hydrology, seismology, paleoclimatology, glaciology,
geophysics, geodesy and more. The program includes a writing class, mentoring,
field trips, and a supportive community. RESESS provides travel to Boulder,
housing, a competitive salary, and a partial scholarship for the following
academic year. This program is intended to increase diversity in the geoscience
workforce by supporting students from underrepresented groups on their path to
graduate school, and encourages applications from Native Americans, African
Americans, Hispanic Americans, and disabled Americans. Please go to our APPLY
and FAQ pages for more information.
Application Deadline: 10 February 2012
Apply to RESESS at: resess.unavco.org
Questions: resess@unavco.org
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.
- National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduate Programs
(REUs) for all sciences, and Earth Sciences REU Opportunities - Sheehan Geophysics Research Group Listing of Undergraduate Summer Internships
in Geological Sciences -
CCT REU: Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Computational Sciences
http://reu.cct.lsu.edu/
The Center for Computation & Technology (CCT) hosts a nine week Research
Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program where students work
collaboratively on a wide variety of computational science projects.
Each student receives a stipend of $4,500, free housing in university
dormitories, and up to $500 in travel expenses to and from Baton Rouge,
Louisiana. Nine students will be selected.
Qualifications:
* Interested in a major that is within the computational sciences umbrella
(leaves out few majors as it includes all sciences, mathematics,
engineering, finance, statistics, etc.)
* At least a 2.75 GPA
* Considering a career in research and/or graduate school in your major
* US citizen or permanent resident
Important Dates:
March 1, 2012: Application deadline.
March 30, 2012: Notification of decision.
May 29, 2012 through July 28, 2012: Program dates.
The research activities of the CCT are organized into five Focus
Areas:
* Core Computing Sciences
* Coast to Cosmos
* Material World
* Cultural Computing
* System Science and Engineering
These are broad, and sometimes overlapping areas where faculty from diverse
departments (Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Civil Engineering,
Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical
Engineering, Electrical and Computing Engineering, Music, Business, etc.)
collaborate in multidisciplinary projects.
Our REU students learn how to use some of the nation's largest
supercomputers, may participate in the setup and management of large-scale
simulations, and may take on an important role in the analysis and
visualization of the simulation results.
For more information and to apply, visit:
http://reu.cct.lsu.edu/ - 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 - LA-SiGMA REU: Interdisciplinary Research Experiences in Materials Science
http://reu.lasigma.loni.org/ This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) project is a nine week
program where students work collaboratively on a wide variety of materials
science projects.
Each student receives a stipend of $4,500, free housing in university
dormitories, and up to $400 in travel expenses.
Thirty students will be selected, five each at Louisiana State University,
Louisiana Tech University, Southern University at Baton Rouge, Tulane
University, University of New Orleans, and Xavier University of Louisiana.
Qualifications:
* Interested in a major that is within the computational sciences umbrella
(leaves out few majors as it includes all sciences, mathematics,
engineering, finance, statistics, etc.)
* At least a 2.75 GPA
* Considering a career in research and/or graduate school in your major
* US citizen or permanent resident
Important Dates:
March 1, 2012: Application deadline.
March 30, 2012: Notification of decision.
May 29, 2012 through July 28, 2012: Program dates.
The research activities of LA-SiGMA are organized into three Science
Drivers:
Electronic Materials
* Energy Materials
* Biomolecular Materials
and the CyberTools and Cyberinfrastructure group.
These are broad, and sometimes overlapping areas where faculty from diverse
departments (Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Mechanical Engineering,
Electrical and Computing Engineering, Biomolecular Engineering, Biology,
Chemistry, etc.) collaborate in multidisciplinary projects.
Our REU students learn how to use some of the nation's largest
supercomputers, may participate in the setup and management of large-scale
simulations, and may take on an important role in the analysis and
visualization of the simulation results.
For more information and to apply, visit:
http://reu.lasigma.loni.org/ -
Marshall University Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
Computational Science
http://sites.google.com/site/marshallreu
Marshall University will once again be hosting a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) this summer.
Application review will begin March 9 2012, but applications will be accepted until all 12 positions are filled. Students will be matched with research mentors from the math, physics, or chemistry departments. The mentors will direct the students in carefully selected problems from the mentors' research interests. Posters from the research conducted over the summers of 2010 and 2011 can be found on the web site. Students will also learn about the problems, techniques, and tools common to all scientific computing.
For more information, see
http://sites.google.com/site/marshallreu
The standard requirements for REU participation apply, the most important of which may be that the applicant must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, and the applicant must be an undergraduate
during the summer -- seniors graduating at the end of the spring semester are unfortunately not eligible. - Texas A&M NSF-REU Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Biochemistry, Sociology, Engineering http://www.tamu.edu