The University of Michigan - CERN Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (UM-CERN REU) provides undergraduate students from around the United States an opportunity to conduct nine weeks of summer research with some of the world's leading physicists at CERN in different research fields. The program is conducted in concert with the NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program and is supported by funds from the National Science Foundation.  Every year the program runs from the beginning of June (usually first week) to the beginning of August (usually second week).

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Note that our proposal to support the CERN summer program has been submitted to NSF, and we are waiting for the grant to be awarded.

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Our program has been highly successful in the training of future scientists; the vast majority of those selected go on to graduate study in physics, mathematics or engineering. As one example, of the 15 students participating in the 2011 summer program, all fifteen participants went to graduate schools to pursue further education at top schools including Berkeley (4), Columbia (2), Cornell (2), Harvard (2), Princeton (2), Stanford (1), UIUC (2).  The 30 students who participated in 2008/2009 have garnered an impressive number of awards: seven NSF Fellowships, four NSF honorable mentions, one DOE Fellowship, one IGERT, and one NDSEG. Also over the years several of our students have received the prestigious Churchill and Marshall Awards. In addition, USA Today recently selected one as one of the 20 outstanding Academic All-stars in the nation. The NSF recognized the UM-CERN program as exemplary, featuring it on the Web page of NSF International Programs for an extended period.

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Numbers of awards received by participant students from 2014 - 2019 are listed below (We expect to have more students in the 2017-2019 programs to receive more GRFPs since many of them have not applied yet):

• The CERN REU is exclusively for students currently pursuing an undergraduate degree. Students from any university are welcome. We do not consider high school students. Due to limitations of our sponsor, we can not consider undergraduate students who are currently not U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Foreign students should check this page at CERN