Selected undergraduate students perform frontier research  during the summer REU 2024 on experimental and theoretical projects in one of their chosen research areas.

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Research Areas:

Nano-materials and Condensed Matter

Photonics, Lasers, and Quantum Optics

Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics

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Additional activities include social events jointly with other REU's, field trips to industrial labs, seminars on ethics, use of a research library, and technical writing and research presentations.

Physics majors or those in fields related to Optics and Materials Science are eligible to apply. Students from small colleges and groups that are underrepresented in science and engineering, including women, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

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• Undergraduates with Physics Majors or those in a field related to Optics and Materials Science are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to those applicants who have completed 60 hours of college credit prior to the program start date with GPA greater than 3.0 (4.0 scale).
• US citizenship or permanent residency is required for NSF-REU fellowship.
• Students who will graduate before December of the program year are not eligible.