Texas A&M Summer REU Program

The Texas A&M Sociology department invites students to apply to the Summer 2018 “Research Institute in Sociology and Social Inequality” REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) site.

This 8-week summer program is an exciting opportunity for up to 10 undergraduates to gain invaluable research experience with close guidance from a faculty mentor. Texas A&M faculty will provide world-class opportunities to engage in research on the causes and consequences of social inequality.

Students will gain hands-on training in a range of research methods, including interviewing, experiments, and survey analysis. In addition, Texas A&M Sociology boasts four research centers that will support the students’ work: the Texas Federal Statistical Research Data Center; the Race and Ethnic Studies Institute; the Stuart J. Hysom Social Psychology Laboratory; and the Howard B. Kaplan Laboratory for Social Science Research.

Examples of research projects and details about the program can be found at https://sociology.tamu.edu/reu/.

Students will complete a research project and present their work at an academic conference the following semester. The program covers travel costs for the summer, room and board, GRE preparation, travel costs for the academic conference in the following semester, and a stipend.

Students can access the application and more information at https://sociology.tamu.edu/reu/. Applications, accompanied by a recommendation letter from a faculty member willing to be the student’s home campus mentor, are due March 12th, 2018. The program is best suited for students who are currently in their third year of college, although we will consider students at other stages. We especially encourage applications from first-generation students or students from underrepresented groups.

We ask faculty to please email letters of recommendation to reusociologytamu@gmail.com