The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced their Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program for students majoring in science, engineering, and mathematics. This program operates at NIST’s Gaithersburg, Md. campus. If you are interested in applying to SURF at Gaithersburg, contact the Office of Sponsored Research and Programs at Illinois Tech. The Illinois Tech deadline, including faculty sponsor’s OSRP routing sheet is at noon on Friday, February 5, 2016. Only U.S. citizens or permanent U.S. residents are eligible to participate in the SURF Program.
Application due date: Friday, February 12, 2016. Only electronic application submissions will be accepted via Grants.gov until 11:59 p.m. ET on the due date. Students applying to the SURF Boulder program will be matched to opportunities in the Boulder divisions:
- Applied Chemicals and Materials Division
- Public Safety Communications Research Division
- RF Technology Division
- Quantum Electronics and Photonics Division
- Electromagnetics
- Time and Frequency
Students applying to the SURF Gaithersburg program will be matched to opportunities in the Gaithersburg laboratories:
- Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST)
- Communications Technology Laboratory (CTL)
- Engineering Laboratory (EL)
- Information Technology Laboratory (ITL)
- Material Measurement Laboratory (MML)
- NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR)
- Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML)
Additional information and application materials may be found here and here.
*Note: The SURF Program will host webinars tentatively scheduled on Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 2 p.m. ET and Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 1:30 p.m. ET. Check the websites above for registration information.
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Per Illinois Tech policy, all grant applications (federal and non-federal) must be reviewed, signed and submitted by the Office of Sponsored Research and Programs regardless of the amount of the request. Contact osrp@iit.edu or call at 312.567.3035 for more information on submitting a proposal.