Dear Colleague:
Your school has been invited to participate in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program for students majoring in science, engineering, and mathematics. This letter contains information about the program that operates at NISTs Boulder, Colorado, campus and NIST’s Gaithersburg, Maryland, campus.
Your school has been invited to participate in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program for students majoring in science, engineering, and mathematics. This letter contains information about the program that operates at NISTs Boulder, Colorado, campus and NIST’s Gaithersburg, Maryland, campus.
2015 NIST SURF Program Flyer
Applications for participation in the SURF program are accepted only from colleges or universities and not from individual students or faculty. We invite your Office of Sponsored Programs or Grants Office, to prepare a single proposal to the SURF program. (A separate proposal is required for SURF Boulder and SURF Gaithersburg.) This proposal will include a portion completed by an institutional representative and a set of materials provided by each student applicant. An administrative announcement of this Federal Funding Opportunity (FFO) has been posted on both Grants.gov and our program Web site.
Grants.gov: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=2015-NIST-SURF
Applications for participation in the SURF program are accepted only from colleges or universities and not from individual students or faculty. We invite your Office of Sponsored Programs or Grants Office, to prepare a single proposal to the SURF program. (A separate proposal is required for SURF Boulder and SURF Gaithersburg.) This proposal will include a portion completed by an institutional representative and a set of materials provided by each student applicant. An administrative announcement of this Federal Funding Opportunity (FFO) has been posted on both Grants.gov and our program Web site.
Grants.gov: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=2015-NIST-SURF
SURF Program: http://www.nist.gov/surf
Application due date: Friday, February 13, 2015 [paper application, for Boulder 5:00 p.m. (MT) and for Gaithersburg 5:00 p.m. (ET); electronic application submitted to Grants.gov, 11:59 p.m. (ET)]
Students applying to the SURF Boulder program will be matched to opportunities in the Boulder divisions:
Applied Chemicals and Materials Division
Students applying to the SURF Boulder program will be matched to opportunities in the Boulder divisions:
Applied Chemicals and Materials Division
Students applying to the SURF Gaithersburg program will be matched to opportunities in the Gaithersburg laboratories:
Please circulate the information about this program to other appropriate academic departments and administrative staff at your institution. We encourage you to print and post our information poster that is attached to this message.
Further information and application materials may be found at these Web sites:
SURF NIST Boulder http://www.nist.gov/surfboulder/
Further information and application materials may be found at these Web sites:
SURF NIST Boulder http://www.nist.gov/surfboulder/
SURF NIST Gaithersburg http://www.nist.gov/surfgaithersburg/
Best Regards,
Brandi Toliver, Ph.D.
Academic Affairs Program Manager
Office of International and Academic Affairs
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)