The Physics JILA Research Experience for Undergraduates Program is designed to equip you with the skills, experience, and supportive community to make your career trajectory tangible. This life-changing experience gives you hands-on opportunities to inspect the world around you with the guidance of an established CU Boulder Physics faculty member.

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The intellectual focus of this REU program is physics. Undergraduate students are paired up with preeminent faculty to do cutting-edge research in essentially all fields of physics.

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Although the main emphasis of the summer is centered on each student's individual research lab, students have the opportunity to engage with a variety of other activities during the program. In the past, these have included workshops on ethics in STEM and programming on "Getting into Grad School", hands-on electronics and machining classes, as well as lab tours and a weekly science seminar series.

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At the end of the program, we host a day of research presentations given by each of the REU students.

All student participants in the Physics/JILA REU Program must:

• Be U.S. citizens or have permanent resident status
• Have completed at least 1 year of college by the start of the program
• Not have graduated college at the start of the program