Undergraduates are encouraged to apply to engage in scholarly
activity (research/creative work) via the Summer Undergraduate Research
Experience (SURE) program. Applications are now open (March 1 application
deadline). SURE is a PAID undergraduate research experience for students
interested in GRADUATE SCHOOL and research/creative work within their
discipline or a related discipline. 2019 SURE program dates are May 28-July 26,
2019.
Undergraduates from all majors are invited to submit
abstracts for presentation of scholarly works (research or creative endeavors) at WVU's 3rd Annual Undergraduate Spring Symposium on April 12-13,
2019 at the WVU Mountainlair.
The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) is hosting a problem-based
challenge for undergraduate students!
The challenge for undergraduates is to identify a situation in which an instrument
interferes with its own measurements and data collection, and to propose a solution
to the problem. Your proposal could win you a
$5,000,
$3,000, or
$1,000
scholarship!
Karan Sah, from Lexington South Carolina, is a junior at West Virginia University
majoring in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Karan is actively involved on
campus as a researcher, an administration assistant for the Physics department,
and as the SolidWorks CAD Modeling Lead on the WVU Robotics team. I met with Karan
inside a laboratory at the Engineering Research Building on the Evansdale campus
where he and the WVU Robotics research team are currently working on innovating
projects and preparing for upcoming robotic competitions.
The Office of Undergraduate Research is seeking undergraduate students with a strong interest in research, publishing, and scholarly communication to re-launch the WVU undergraduate research journal, the “Mountaineer Undergraduate Research Review,” or MURR, in fall 2020. MURR was published in four volumes of open access journals from 2009-2014 and is accessible on the Research Repository @ WVU.
Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine (MU JCESOM) Graduate Program
is offering the Summer Research Internship for Minority Students (SRIMS) for
its 11th year!
The SRIMS program includes nine weeks of graduate-level research in the field
of biomedical sciences. Participants receive formal research training while expanding
their learning experience through workshops, seminars on current topics, mentoring
and professional networking.
Application Deadline The application and supporting documents are due in the office on or before February
8th, 2019
The 51st annual Southeastern Undergraduate Research Conference will be held at The
University of Tennessee Martin, February 8-9th.
The last day to submit an abstract or register for SURC 2019 is January 15th.
Please forward to any interested students and faculty at your institution. Also,
when registering you have the option to reserve a recruitment table if interested.
Our keynote speaker is New York Times best-selling author, Sam Kean. He has written
for The New York Times Magazine, Mental Floss, Slate, Psychology Today, and The New
Scientist. He has also published four books which discuss scientific discoveries
in a narrative style: The Disappearing Spoon, Caesar's Last Breath, The Violinist's
Thumb and The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons.
Sam Kean will speak Friday evening with a book signing to follow. Student presentations
and posters will take place Saturday, February 9th.
Please visit
http://surc2019.org for all other information. If you have any questions, please
contact surc2019@gmail.com.
The
Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) brings ten
students each summer to campus to work closely with VINSE faculty on research projects
in cutting edge areas of nanoscale science and engineering. This summer program
is funded by the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates
(NSF-REU) program. Participation in the program provides students with a true
interdisciplinary research experience in an environment where physicists, chemists,
biologists, and all engineers collaboratively solve problems and create new scientific
understanding. Weekly lunchtime meetings are held for all faculty and students that
cover topics ranging from ethics and the responsible conduct of research to demystifying
graduate school and the GRE examination. Each student works directly with VINSE faculty
members and their research groups and has access to the VINSE laboratories, which
are shared facilities available to all authorized users. Furthermore, the Vanderbilt
campus is just one mile from downtown Nashville, which is one of the most vibrant
and cosmopolitan mid-sized cities in the United States.
Students who are US Citizens or Permanent Residents majoring in science or engineering
are eligible to apply to the REU program. Students from underrepresented
groups and institutions are strongly encouraged to apply. Students are to be notified
of their acceptance into the program by email by mid-March annually. Selections
are primarily based on academic standing and faculty recommendations.
All studies involve genetic, biochemical, and transgenic techniques including isolating
genes by PCR, overexpressing or RNAi silencing gene expressions in plants, and
investigating the effects on gene expressions and metabolite levels. Some specific
projects may involve culturing transgenic yeasts for determining protein-protein
interactions (yeast two-hybrid) or for analyzing transporter substrate specificities.
Columbia University
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
Summer 2019
PAS3 supports outstanding undergraduates as Summer Research Fellows each year
in a ten-week collaborative REU program between Columbia and City College of New
York. Topics of research encompass two interdisciplinary research groups studying
materials composed of atomically precise low-dimensional building blocks: two-dimensional
atomic sheets and zero-dimensional molecular clusters.
