Summer Research Experience (TX)
This summer the Environmental Science Institute at the University of Texas at Austin is recruiting up to ten students for an NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). The program is focused on Global Change and Its Impacts, and is designed to provide an interdisciplinary perspective by integrating ecology, geology, urban studies, policy, hydrology, and marine science, among others.
Students will work in a research group headed by a faculty mentor, and come together regularly to participate in topical and professional development seminars, field excursions, and social outings. Workshops and field trips will familiarize students with pressing environmental issues surrounding global change and faculty mentors will guide students in the development of independent research projects.
The ten week program runs from the first week of June to the first week of August. Each student will be awarded a salary of $4,500 for the summer, and some travel funds will be available to help defray the cost of traveling to Austin. Students will be housed in a UT dormitory, and the costs of the dormitory and a meal plan are included in the program.
We seek students presently in their sophomore or junior years, with strong credentials and majoring in biology, ecology, geological sciences, civil engineering, marine science, urban ecology, chemistry, or any other environmentally-related discipline.
Applications are due February 1, 2009. Participants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. For more information and to apply, please visit www.esi.utexas.edu/research/reu/