Summer 2009 Paid Research Opportunity

SUMMER 2009 PAID RESEARCH INTERNSHIPS FOR URM STUDENTS

Application Deadline  February 15, 2009

The CRA-W/CDC Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU) Program is a highly selective program that matches promising undergraduates with a faculty mentor for a summer research experience at the faculty member’s home institution.  The objective of the DREU is to increase the number of women and students from underrepresented groups entering graduate studies in the fields of computer science and engineering.

The DREU experience is invaluable for students who are considering graduate school, providing them with a close-up view of what graduate school
is really like and also increasing their competitiveness as an applicant for graduate admissions and fellowships.

Funding for the student consists of $6000 for the summer (10 weeks), plus relocation travel assistance when appropriate.  Additional funds
may be available to support student conference travel, either during the summer or afterward, and for outreach activities promoting the DREU.

An on-line Application for students and faculty mentors, more information about DREU, and webpages authored by previous participants are
available at: http://parasol.tamu.edu/dreu/

• Application Deadline February 15, 2009
• Awards Announced: mid-March 2009

For more information about the DREU, consult the DREU webpages http://parasol.tamu.edu/dreu or contact the DREU Co-Directors at dreu@cse.tamu.edu

Nancy Amato, Professor, Texas A&M University
Co-Director, Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (CDC)

Tracy Camp, Professor, Colorado School of Mines
Co-Director, Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (CRA-W)

Maria Gini, Professor, University of Minnesota
Co-Director, Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (CRA-W)

The Computing Research Association (CRA, http://cra.org) is an association of more than 180 North American academic departments of computer science and computer engineering; laboratories and centers in industry, government, and academia engaging in basic computing research; and affiliated professional societies.
The Coalition to Diversity Computing (CDC, http://www.cdc-computing.org/) is a joint organization of the ACM, CRA, and IEEE-CS.
DREU is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation with additional support from AAAI, the Luce Foundation, and USENIX.

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FROM: Nancy M. Amato, Professor
Parasol Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University, 3112 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3112
tel: +1-979-862-2275,  fax: +1-979-458-0718
email: amato@cse.tamu.edu, url: http://parasol.tamu.edu/~amato