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Chemistry Research WEBSITE

Project Descriptions for SUMMER 2008: (all PDF files):
Levandoski Lab; Lyons Lab, Marzluff Lab; Minelli Lab; Sharpe Lab; Sieck Lab

Application Form: Sci_Div_Summer_Res_App_08.pdf

Chemistry Summer Group Photos: 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004.

Leiden Exchange: The Leiden Institute of Chemistry and Grinnell College participate in a student exchange during the summer. Click on this link and choose Research to learn more about the available projects for students at Leiden. Contact Elaine Marzluff for more information. More information about Leiden University is available at the University of Leiden (English) homepage, and about living in Holland is available at The Official Holland Website.

Science Division webpage for summer research: find the common application here, as well as links to the MAP form and picnic group photos.

• ACS Directory of Graduate Research is now available on-line (a hardcopy is also available in the computational/study room)

• NSF: List of summer chemistry-related Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs).
• Arizona Heart Foundation (Phoenix) Cardiovascular Summer Student Program: Competetive internship opportunity for 8 students. Deadline 3/7/08.
• University of Iowa: Biosciences programs such as biochemistry, medicinal & natural products chemistry.
• University of Pittsburgh, Bioengineering and Bioinformatics. Deadline is 3/9/08.
• CALTECH SURF or MURF program.
• Summer Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program at Dept. of Energy labs, such as Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory.
• Undergraduate Internships in Germany. German Academic Exchange Service will match studetns with German PhD student for the summer.
• Amgen Scholars: Undergraduate Summer Research in Science and Biotechnology, with program locations at Caltech, Columbia University Barnard College, Howard University, MIT, Stanford, University of Washington, UC-Berkeley, UC-Los Angeles, UC-San Diego, UC- San Francisco.
• Center for Nanomarterials Research at Dartmouth College. 9-weeks; 3/13/08 is deadline.
• University of Kansas, Pharmaceutical Chemistry Summer REU.
• Hope College: Several science disciplines awarding stipends for summer research at Hope.
• RISE (Research In Science & Engineering) at Rutgers/UMDNJ (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey). The research opportunities span biomedical, physical and behavioral sciences, math, and engineering.
• Global Change Education Program (GCEP), SURE program; research encompasses a variety of technical areas including atmospheric sciences, ecology, global carbon cycles, climate modeling, and terrestrial processes.
• University of South Alabama. Applicants must have completed two semester of Organic Chemistry. All the projects involve different aspects of "Structure and Fuction of Proteins". Deadline is 3/7/08.
• University of Alabama at Birmingham: 8-week program sponsored by the Departments of Environmental Health Sciences, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Genetics, Medicine, Microbiology, Pathology, Physiology and Biophysics, and Pharmacology and Toxicology and the Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Center. Deadline is 3/14/08.
• The River Basins Research Initiative at Furman University, an interdisciplinary research program focused on the impact of urbanization on watershed processes in the piedmont region of South Carolina. Deadline is 3/14/08.
• North Dakota State University, departments of chemistry, molecular biology, pharmaceutical sciences, vet and microbiological sciences, and biological sciences. Deadline is 3/15/08.
• North Dakota State University, Dept of Coatings and Polymeric Materials: projects in the areas of coatings and corrosion protection, weathering durability of coatings, film formation processes, synthesis of high performance polymers. Deadline is 3/31/08.
• Missouri State University. Deadline is 3/15/08.
• TIM Consortium: spread out over six campuses, each with two students working on problems related to Theoretically Interesting Molecules (TIM). The entire group of six faculty and 12 students will get together twice during the summer, once to spend a week at Chapel Hill for the Reaction Mechanisms Conference and again at the end of the summer to report on results. TIM-REU website. Deadline is 3/15/08.
• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: Research in the RISE program spans the biomedical, physical and behavioral sciences, math, and engineering. 8- or 10-week experiences. Rolling admission begins at the end of January and is highly competitive.
• Rutgers University - Camden campus and Pinelands Field Station REU: a variety of different research areas (biochemistry, biophysics, botany, chemistry, ecology, evolution, microbiology, molecular biology, neurobiology and zoology). Contact information at their website. Deadline is 3/28/08.
• University of Nevada, Reno. Summer projects focused in broad areas of inorganic, organic, physical and theoretical chemistry. Deadline is 3/21/08.
• ITALY, UK, FRANCE: This ACS/IREU program allows US citizens or residents currently enrolled at a US institution to carry out a 10-week paid research internship at one of the following institutions: CPE-Lyon, University of Perugia, University of Strathclyde. Deadline extended till 3/10/08.
• Auburn University: NSF-REU on Biosensors. This multi-disciplinary, multi-departmental REU program is open to all undergraduates enrolled in Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering. Deadline is 3/24/08.
• Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology at Dartmouth College. Deadline is 3/13/08.
  
  
• The following have deadlines which have past:
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) HS-STEM Summer Internship Program. 10-week program. Deadline to apply is 12/14/07.
• NASA Internships. January 31, 2008 deadliine to apply.
• Center on Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies' (CPIMA): projects focus on the interfacial science of organic materials, at Stanford U., IBM Almaden Res. Cntr, U. California-Berkeley, U. California-Davis. Deadline 2/2/08.
• Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) summer program at UI. Deadline is 2/4/08.
• Medicinal Chemistry summer internship at Pfizer in St. Louis, deadline is 2/15/08.
• Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC) [PDF file]. Deadline is 2/15/08.
• Northwestern University Summer REU. 9-weeks; research areas include ceramics, polymers, nanocomposites, photonics, nanoparticles, molecular electronics and biomaterials. Deadline 2/15/08.
• University of Southern California Chemistry Dept. NSF-REU; deadline is 2/15/08.
• University of Kansas, Chemistry Summer REU; over 20 projects in all areas of chemistry. Deadline is 2/15/08.
• Stowers Institute Scholars Program, Kansas City MO. 8-week program. Deadline is 2/15/08.
• Nanoscale Science, Engineering & Technology REU Program of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN); approx. 70 positions at 12 major universities, ending with a 3-day conference with all participants gathered at one site. Deadline is 2/19/08.
• University of Alabama Chemistry Department. Deadline is 2/28/08.
• University of Pittsburgh, Department of Pharmacology: biomedical receptor and signaling research. Deadline 3/1/08.
• MASSCREST- Massachusetts Center for Renewable Energey Science and Technology. Chemistry REU at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Deadline is 3/1/08.
• University of Georgia, Computational Chemistry. Deadline is 3/1/08.
• Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi 10-week SURF program. Deadline is 3/3/08.
• University of Wyoming: Bioinformatics and computational molecular biology in Laramie. Deadline is 3/3/08.

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