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NIST SURF
The National Institute of Standards and Technology Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
The SURF Program is designed to inspire undergraduate students to pursue careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) through a unique research experience that supports the NIST mission. Since 1993, SURF students from across the country have had the opportunity to gain valuable, hands-on experience, working with cutting edge technology in one of the world's leading research organizations and home to three Nobel Prize winners.
Over the course of 11 weeks, SURF students contribute to the ongoing research of one of the six NIST facilities which are the Communications Technology Laboratory (CTL), Engineering Laboratory (EL), Information Technology Laboratory (ITL), Material Measurement Laboratory (MML), NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR), and Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) (which now includes project in the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology). The SURF Program is administered at the Boulder, CO and Gaithersburg, MD locations.
2019 Participants
Boulder, CO Campus
- Daniel Baker, Development of Electrolyte Database Bases on Thermodynamic Properties. (Daniel majored in chemical engineering).
Gaithersburg, MD Campus | 2019 SURF Colloquium at NIST Gaithersburg Booklet
- Chad Hite, Elucidating the Role of Hinge Mechanics on Impact Mitigation. (Chad double majored in mechanical and aerospace engineering. His NIST mentor was Marcos Reyes-Martinez.)
- Oriana Ovide, Assessment of Elemental Homogeneity in Modern Glass micro-XRF for forensics. (Oriana double majored in chemistry and forensic and investigative science. Her NIST mentor was Ruthmara Corzo.)
- Katrina Rupert, Getting the Kinks Out: Reducing Disulfide Bonds for Protein Analysis. (Katrina majored in forensic and investigative science. Her NIST mentors were Jeffrey Hudgens and Kyle Anderson.)
2018 Participants
Boulder, CO Campus
- Katrina Rupert, Characterization of Vapor Pods via PLOT-Cryoadsorption. (Katrina majored in forensic and investigative science. Her NIST mentors were Tara Lovestead and Megan Harris.)
- Mikal Dufor, Development of a 776-nm Extended-Cavity Diode Laster for Low-Noise Detection of Laser-Cooled Rubidium Atoms. (Mikal majored in physics. His NIST mentors were Elizabeth Donley, Kaitlin Moore, and James McGilligan.)
- William Howard, Development of Test Cases for 3GPP Release 14 Mission Critical Services. (William majored in electrical engineering. His NIST mentor was Jason Kahn.)
Gaithersburg, MD Campus | 2018 SURF Colloquium at NIST Gaithersburg Booklet
- Samantha Isaac, Monte-Carlo Exploration of Focused Neutron Guide Geometries. (Samantha double majored in physics and mathematics. Her NIST mentor was Leland Harriger.)
- Nicholas Strogen, The Effects of Chlorine Exposure on the Performance and Morphology of Polyamide Membranes. (Nicholas majored in mechanical engineering. His NIST mentors were Valencia Witherspoon and Christopher Stafford.)
2017 Participants
Gaithersburg, MD Campus
- Sydney Brooks, Chemical and physical characterization of aged fibers (Sydney was a junior Honors College student majoring in chemistry)
- Tony Allen, The use of graph theory in forensic footwear analysis. (Tony was a senior Honors College student majoring in math)
2016 Participants
Gaithersburg, MD Campus | 2016 SURF Colloquium at NIST Gaithersburg Booklet
- Sydney Brooks, Fiber Trace Evidence: Quantification of Sample Bleaching During UV-vis Microspectrometry (Sydney was a junior majoring in chemistry and forensic science. Her NIST mentor was Amanda Forster).
- Samantha Isaacs, Monte-Carlo Exploration of Focused Neutron Guide and Monochromator Geometries (Samantha was a junior majoring in physics and mathematics. Her NIST mentor was Leland Harriger).
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Anna Gilpin, What is the Meaning of Life?: Terminology and Measurement Assurance for Biotechnology Standards (Anna was a junior majoring in biomedical engineering. Her NIST mentors were Clare Allocca and Sumona Sarkar).
