Applications for LURE Program due January 28

The LURE (Long-term Undergraduate Research Experience) Program is accepting applications for summer 2008 research fellowships. The program is made possible by a National Science Foundation grant that the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science received, in collaboration with three other universities. The program emphasizes beginning undergraduate research in mathematics early in students' academic careers. 

LURE recruits students early in their undergraduate careers and pairs them with faculty who serve as mentors throughout a two-year research experience in the mathematical sciences. Through closely supervised research and independent study activities spanning two summers (10-weeks each) and two academic years, students experience all steps in a research project, from background reading to the professional presentation of results.

Over the four years of the grant, LURE will engage a total of 80 undergraduates and 28 faculty from a diverse collection of institutions (a comprehensive university, a historically black university, a gender-balanced engineering college, a selective liberal arts college and an all-women's college). A yearly LURE conference showcases the results of the teams at all participating institutions, serves as a dissemination outlet for the apprentice model applied to mathematics and provides an opportunity for assessment, reflection and programmatic improvements.

Questions about the application process should be directed to Dr. Kathy Hoke or any of the faculty mentors overseeing research projects in summer 2008. 

Posted December 16, 2007