{"482111":{"#nid":"482111","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Summer Undergraduate Research Opportunities","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s not too early for your Georgia Tech student to be thinking about plans for summer!\u0026nbsp; Opportunities are available for undergraduate students to spend part of the summer working side-by-side with researchers at universities in the U.S. and abroad.\u0026nbsp;Students are able to gain valuable experience in full-time research with a cohort of students from universities across the country and are able to not only participate in exciting research projects, but experience the research culture at another university.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOpportunities are available in programs for all majors. The National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsors programs from Alabama to Washington. Other programs are sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), NASA, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the U.S. Department of Energy, the Mayo Clinic, the Department of Defense, among others. Programs are also available abroad either through the NSF or other international organizations or universities.\u0026nbsp;Most domestic programs provide the participating student with a stipend, housing allowance and some travel assistance. Many programs also sponsor professional development seminars and workshops in addition to planned social events or outings. Also, many programs label their summer research as an \u201cinternship,\u201d so don\u2019t forget to include those opportunities in your search.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has some great on-campus opportunities for summer research. One of those is the SURE program, founded in 1992 by Dr. Gary May, current dean of the College of Engineering. The program is 10 weeks in length for approximately 30 to 40 upperclassmen and women recruited from the Colleges of Computing, Engineering, and Sciences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother great research opportunity for the summer is President\u2019s Undergraduate Research Awards. The deadline for summer applications is February 26, 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMost programs have deadlines in early to late February, some as early as mid-January.\u0026nbsp; Many use rolling admission, so apply early and often!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVisit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.urop.gatech.edu\/summer-research\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.urop.gatech.edu\/summer-research\u003C\/a\u003E for additional information and links to programs. Information on the page is being updated on a regular basis, so check the website often.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChristopher W. Reaves, Ph.D., Director of Undergraduate Research and Student Innovation\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAllyson Tant, Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"It\u2019s not too early for your Georgia Tech student to be thinking about plans for summer!"}],"uid":"27244","created_gmt":"2016-01-05 16:09:27","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:20","author":"Sara Warner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1298","name":"Parent and Family Programs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["parents@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}