KSU REU - Research Experience for Undergraduates

Overview

The Kansas State summer research program offers students an opportunity to perform cutting-edge research. As a student in our program, you will be paired with a faculty research mentor. Furthermore, on average about 2-3 hours per week will be spent in a classroom setting, where faculty members will describe the physics behind your own project and your peers' projects as well. In addition to your research mentor, Dr. Larry Weaver will be available to assist you in learning about your research as you get more involved. For 1-2 hours per week, Dr. Bruce Glymour, Professor of Philosophy and co-director for the KSU Center for the Understanding of Origins, and Amy Lara, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, will lead discussions of ethical issues in physics, including case studies of some famous ethical violations in recent years.

You will develop a web page on your project, and give regular updates on your research to your fellow student researchers. Your project will culminate in an oral or poster presentation summarizing your research project, and in the creation of a web page summarizing your experiences. Click here to see last years participants final presentations, and click on individual students' names to view their web pages, where their personal experiences in the program are described in detail.

We will organize social activities from time to time. In past years, we have had dinner at faculty mentors' homes, ice-cream socials jointly with the K-State Biology REU program, and gone canoeing down the Blue River.

2008 Schedule

	Monday, February 18	Rolling admissions begins. Applications will be accepted until all spots are filled.
	Monday, May 26	Students arrive at K-State, move into dorms. Dinner off-campus in Aggieville.
	Tuesday, May 27	Students learn about research projects, start safety training.
	Wednesday, May 28	Students choose research projects.
	Friday, June 6	First public research progress report.
	Friday, July 4	Half-way point, and HOLIDAY.
	Thursday, July 31	Public presentation of FINAL research report.
	Friday, August 1	Last day of program.