Many undergraduates get their first exposure to science and engineering by participating in the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. Each REU project is designed to involve the student in all aspects of research and has a clearly identifiable research goal at a level appropriate for undergraduate study. This program is subscribed by undergraduates from across the country. Applications and transcripts are due February 28, 2009 and selection of the summer students proceeds with Center faculty through April. With direction from a faculty advisor and, in most cases, a postdoctoral fellow or graduate student, the REU student defines and sets up the program necessary to accomplish the ten-week summer project. A final presentation is given by each student at the end-of-summer seminar attended by Center faculty, student mentors, and fellow REU students.

Program dates for the 2009 program will be announced in January 2009.

Apply for the 2009 REU program at www.reusite.seas.harvard.edu/application

Eligibility:
Citizen or Permanent Resident of the United States
Currently enrolled undergraduate (not graduating before December 2009)

For more information about past projects and participants, please visit the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) website, or for more information about this program, contact Kathryn Hollar, Director of Educational Programs, at:

Pierce Hall Room 185
29 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel.:(617) 496-7479
Fax:(617) 812-0760
E-mail: hollar (at) seas.harvard.edu