REU: Research Experiences for Undergraduates

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Thank you for your interest in the University of Nevada NSF-REU summer program in chemistry. This research experiences for undergraduates program will be held at the University of Nevada, Reno from June 8th through August 15th 2008 and is supported by the National Science Foundation. We are looking forward to an exciting program this summer featuring research covering the broad spectrum of chemistry.

This award by the Chemistry Division supports a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Nevada-Reno for the summers of 2006-2008. The program director is Sean Casey who is assisted by co-PI Brian Frost. This program places special emphasis on participants from small four-year colleges having no graduate degree program. A primary goal of the program is to educate students who otherwise have little to no exposure to graduate degree programs about the excitement and advantages of pursuing an advanced degree in chemistry. Each summer, eight students selected primarily from the Western region will join students from the University of Nevada for a ten-week research experience in one of 11 available research groups spanning the areas of inorganic, organic, physical, and theoretical chemistry. The summer programs will be capped-off by an Undergraduate Research Symposium which will include oral presentations from regional faculty at four-year institutions and a poster session by the REU participants.

Potential faculty mentors are listed below:


Additional information is available in this year's REU Program Flyer.

The deadline for application for Summer 2008 was March 21, 2008. Please contact us at reu@chem.unr.edu with any questions.


— Profs. Brian Frost and Sean Casey, Co-Directors of the NSF-REU program in Chemistry at the University of Nevada