Appalachian has been invited to participate in the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST's) Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program for students majoring in science, engineering, and mathematics.
Applications for participation in the SURF program are accepted only from colleges or universities and not from individual students or faculty. This program invites Appalachian to prepare a single proposal to the SURF program. (A separate proposal is required for SURF Boulder and SURF Gaithersburg.) This proposal will include a portion completed by an institutional representative and a set of materials provided by each student applicant. An administrative announcement of this Federal Funding Opportunity (FFO) has been posted on both Grants.gov and our program Web site.
Grants.gov: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=2015-NIST-SURF
SURF Program: http://www.nist.gov/surf
Application due date: Friday, February 13, 2015 [paper application, for Boulder 5:00 p.m. (MT) and for Gaithersburg 5:00 p.m. (ET); electronic application submitted to Grants.gov, 11:59 p.m. (ET)]. If you are interested in leading this type of program please contact Dr. Alan Utter in the Office of Student Research at 262-7655 or at utterac@appstate.edu.
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
Quantum Electronics and Photonics Division
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)
Information Technology Laboratory (ITL)
Material Measurement Laboratory (MML)
NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR)
Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML)
Further information and application materials may be found at these Web sites:
SURF NIST Boulder http://www.nist.gov/surfboulder/
SURF NIST Gaithersburg http://www.nist.gov/surfgaithersburg/