Category: Undergraduate Research

Study Plasmonics and Spintronics This Summer

Colleen Norden / / STEM, Summer Program, UR Opportunities

University of Utah Materials Research Science & Engineering Center (MRSEC) Next-Generation Materials for Plasmonics & Organic Spintronics in Salt Lake City, Utah

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)

June 5 – August 4, 2017

$5000 stipend, travel allowance and campus housing

Potential majors: physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering (chemical, electrical, mechanical, metallurgical), applied math.

Apply online by February 12, 2017 at: www.mrsec.utah.edu/reu

Open to U.S. citizens & permanent residents obtaining an undergraduate degree December 2017 or after. Women & minority students are especially encouraged to apply. Students from non-research institutions may be given priority. Supported by the National Science Foundation under grant no. DMR-1121252 CFDA NO. 47.049

Apply to Present at the First Yale Undergraduate Research Conference

Colleen Norden / / UR Opportunities

The 2017 Yale Undergraduate Research Conference is seeking student applications from national colleges and universities from which the 90 undergraduate poster presenters and 10 plenary speakers will be chosen.

Research spanning the humanities, social sciences, and STEM is welcome!

Application portal open until Dec. 8, 2016.

In addition, the two-day conference will feature keynote speakers from the Yale community and panel workshops on continuing education and careers after college.

The conference will take place on Saturday and Sunday, February 11-12th, 2017 at the Omni New Haven Hotel and will run from 9 A.M. to 7 P.M.

Middlebury students selected to present can apply to the Academic Conference Travel Fund (go/atf) for trip expenses.

Conference website: http://yura.yale.edu/conference

Kristin Knutzen ’16 Presents Research at Posters on the Hill in DC

Lisa Gates / / STEM, UR Opportunities
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Kristin Knutzen ’16 with Senator Patrick Leahy and his wife Marcelle at Posters on the Hill.

Check out this great video and article about Kristin’s senior research project and presentation of her work at the Council of Undergraduate Research’s annual Posters on the Hill at the Capitol in DC. This event shares impressive undergraduate research work from across the country with Congress and funding agencies. Congratulations, Kristin, on your research! To learn more about Posters on the Hill, see http://www.cur.org/conferences_and_events/student_events/posters_on_the_hill/  or contact uro@middlebury.edu

 

Power of Collaborative Research–Linguistics!

Lisa Gates / / Uncategorized

From the Middlebury College Newsroom ( http://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/around-campus/node/515966 ) :

“Two Middlebury students and two recent graduates, along with their Middlebury professors, presented their research at the 8th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics at the University of Puerto Rico on April 13-16.

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Top (l-r): Brandon Baird and Mark Balderston. Below: Madeline Gilbert, Evan Patz, Caroline Cating, and Marcos Rohena-Madrazo.

Evan Patz ’17 and Jeffrey Stevenson, associate professor and director of the School in Chile, presented “Socio-phonological variation of syllable final /s/ aspiration in Chilean Spanish and L2 acquisition.”

Mark Balderston ’15.5, Caroline Cating ’16.5, and Assistant Professors Brandon Baird and Marcos Rohena-Madrazo presented “He sounds like he plays fútbol: Perceptions of single-word Spanish phonology switches within English utterances.”

Madeline Gilbert ’14 and Prof. Rohena-Madrazo presented “Sociolinguistic stratification of coda (-r) in Buenos Aires Spanish: Hyperarticulation and Deletion.”

The Workshop on Sociolinguistics. is one of the most important academic events in the field of sociolinguistics, said Prof. Baird.

Middlebury’s Undergraduate Research Office provided funding support for the students’ participation at the workshop.”

Congratulations to all!

 

Paid Summer REU in Nevada to Study Water Resources, Climate Change and Snowpack

Colleen Norden / / STEM, Summer Program, UR Opportunities

University of Nevada, Reno Summer 2016 REU Program
Application Deadline: Friday, March 18th, 2016

Students will explore the intersections of socioeconomic and natural sciences in relation to drought resiliency in the Tahoe, Sierra Nevada and Great Basin Regions, sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Overview of Program: REU research teams will work in the Eastern Sierra Region of Nevada, specifically within the Lake Tahoe Basin and the surrounding northwestern Great Basin high desert. The program will encompass a wide range of interdisciplinary research, examining the various approaches to assessing, modeling, and managing water resources in the context of global climate change and diminishing snowpack. Participants will gain exposure to diverse scientific inquiries and technologies in order to glean how the socioeconomic and natural sciences inform land use policy and adaptive management of economic and natural resources.

The program will take place during the ten consecutive weeks of 6 June through 12 August 2016. Students in the program will be provided a stipend of $4750, plus housing.

Research Topics Include: · Rephotography: Changing Landscapes in the Tahoe Basin · Hydrology: Predicting Changes From Snow to Rain in the Eastern Sierra Nevada · Sage Grouse: Habitat Restoration in the Sierra Nevada · Agricultural Drought Management and Decision-Making · Modeling reservoir operations to mitigate for climate impacts on fisheries · Ecohydrological Effects of Pinyon and Juniper Removal · Ecological Investigations of Tree Limits in Nevada Mountain Ranges

Eligibility: Qualified undergraduates, who will have junior or senior status and will be a full-time student in the Fall 2016 term, with a combination of coursework in the following disciplines are invited to apply: environmental studies, natural resources, biology, ecology, hydrology, resource economics, photography, and statistics. We especially encourage applications from students at primarily undergraduate and non-research institutions and from underrepresented groups. Participants must be citizens or permanent legal residents of the USA.

Contact: For further information, email the Program Coordinator, Amanda Van Dellen at UNR.REU@gmail.com or visit their website for application materials and mentor profiles: http://environment.unr.edu/undergraduateresearch/opportunities/reu.html