Tag: Undergraduate Research

Summer Research Programs at the University of Missouri–deadlines 1/31-2/19

Lisa Gates / / STEM, Summer Program, Uncategorized, UR Opportunities

Check out the variety of Summer Undergraduate Research Programs at the University of Missouri:

Alcohol Research (Feb 19)
Ellis Fischel Cancer Center Program (Feb 19)
Materials Science & Engineering (Feb 19)
Medical Sciences (Feb 17)
Missouri Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (Feb 19)
Translational Biomedicine (Feb 19)

Students live in on-campus air-conditioned housing (double rooms), and receive a meal plan paid by the program. Many programs provide one credit hour of research, travel to and from Columbia (MO), and stipends ranging from $3,400 – $5,400.

Coordinated by the MU Office of Undergraduate Research, the Summer Undergraduate Research Program hosts 50+ students from institutions across the nation. Interns in the program participate in educational and social activities and numerous outings planned by the interns themselves creating a vibrant, inclusive, and welcoming summer community. Under the guidance of an MU faculty mentor, students work on their own projects in collaboration with graduate students, lab technicians, and post-doctoral researchers and will showcase their results at a poster Forum on July 27th.

Two additional REU programs at MU are:

Computational Neuroscience (Feb 1)
Consumer Networking Technologies (Jan 31 priority deadline)

Paid Summer Research Opportunities in STEM at the University of Missouri! Deadlines 2/11-3/1/22.

Lisa Gates / / STEM, Summer Program, UR Opportunities

The University of Missouri has more than 60 slots in our AWESOME summer program for visiting students!  

In addition to providing a full time research experience and end-of-the-summer poster session, we organize evening seminars, specialty small group seminars, and orientation and social activities designed to create a supportive peer community.  Many of our seminars focus on professional development, tailored to different levels of student experience.  We provide students and faculty the tools they need to quickly establish a productive mentoring relationship.  And Columbia, Missouri is a great place to get away from distractions for the summer, and focus on research and professional development at a major research university — Big Time research with the Small Town touch!

Stipends range from $3400-$6000 and on-campus room & board.

Program Dates:  May 31- July 30, 2022 (We can not accommodate late arrivals)

Our programs, organized by deadline:

February 11

Medical Research – outreach for students interested attending MU School of Medicine

February 20

Alcohol Research – psychology addiction research

Translational Biomedicine – students planning on research careers and looking at MU for graduate training

Cell & Molecular Biology – for students interested in molecular and cellular biology and looking at MU for graduate training

Cancer Research – students planning on careers in cancer research, diagnosis, or treatment and considering MU for graduate/professional studies

Materials Science & Engineering REU – broad array of materials engineering research

Animal Sciences – for students considering PhDs in animal sciences.  This is not a pre-vet program.

March 1

Consumer Networking Technologies REU – computer sciences 

Computational Neuroscience REU (note :  This program is independent of the Office of Undergraduate Research)

Be sure to check out our homepage for our summer programs!

University of Tennessee Summer Undergraduate Research Education Experiences in the Environmental Health Sciences, Applications Open!

Lisa Gates / / STEM, Summer Program, Uncategorized, UR Opportunities

The University of Tennessee Summer Undergraduate Research Education Experiences in the Environmental Health Sciences provides students an opportunity to explore their interests in the environmental health-related aspects of biology, microbiology, and the biomedical sciences through hands-on summer research opportunities. Students will uniquely experience the breadth and depth of research that occurs at a major research institution.

Program Description
The University of Tennessee’s Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, and Office of Undergraduate Research have partnered to provide a ten-week summer research education experience program designed to immerse and challenge undergraduate students in the science, technology, engineering, mathematical, and medical science (STEMM) disciplines. Students will be placed into faculty mentor labs for rigorous hands-on independent research with complementary training in experimental design, ethics, statistical analysis, laboratory management, entrepreneurship, and science communication. Application deadline is March 10, 2020.

Program Highlights
• 10-week research experience in the lab of a University of Tennessee faculty member
• Weekly seminar series on current research topics
• Special seminars on applying to and surviving in graduate school
• Professional development in science communication
• Social trips and other fun activities

Summer 2020 Program Details
• Dates: May 26th to August 1st, 2020
• Stipend: $3,700 plus housing and travel to and from Knoxville, Tennessee
• Additional information and an online application are available at: http://ugradresearchexp.utk.edu/

Program Eligibility
Undergraduate students majoring in biology, microbiology, biochemistry, biomedical engineering, environmental engineering, or other biotechnology-related areas, other physical sciences, science education, or public policy who have a strong desire to complete a Ph.D. Students must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents enrolled in accredited colleges or universities.

Funding for this program is provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Apply for Johns Hopkins University’s first annual Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium

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Applications are now open for Johns Hopkins University’s first annual Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium! This is a new annual two-day event at our main campus in Baltimore, Maryland and it will offer students across the country the chance to disseminate their humanities research on a national scale. Our event will be this spring, April 3rd and 4th, 2020 and our application portal is now open. 

This symposium is open to undergraduate students who would like to present their original scholarship in the humanities. We hope to have 400 participants this year and will also be offering a select number of travel grants to help students afford participation. In addition to the multiple panels of student papers and presentations (including original creative works), we will also have a wonderful keynote delivered by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr and multiple professional development panels featuring graduate students and faculty in our humanities departments and centers. Students studying all areas of the humanities are welcome to attend.

You can learn more at our conference site: https://krieger.jhu.edu/macksey-symposium/. Students accepted to present are also eligible for funding through Middlebury’s Undergraduate Research Office–see go/atf .

Power of Collaborative Research–Linguistics!

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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!