iPlant Collaborative Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Martha Narro
Please let your undergraduates know about a 2010 summer research
opportunity for students interested in applying their quantitative
science or biology background to problems in plant biology. The iPlant
Collaborative is supporting an Interdisciplinary Computational
Thinking and Plant Biology Research Program for Undergraduates
(Interdisciplinary UBRP-CT: http://ubrp.arizona.edu/iplant). This is
a 12 week paid summer research experience (roughly $300/week) with
many additional enrichment activities (http://ubrp.arizona.edu/iplant/default.cfm?id=supplement
). The program takes place at the beautiful University of Arizona
campus in Tucson (http://www.arizona.edu/, webcam: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/camera/
). Additional stipends for travel, room and board are included for
students who are not from the Tucson area. Students majoring in
computer science, mathematics, management information systems,
statistics, engineering, physics, plant sciences, or plant-related
biology and who are US citizens or permanent residents of the US are
eligible to apply. The application deadline is Feb. 1, 2010.
Interdisciplinary UBRP-CT is supported through the iPlant
Collaborative (http://iplantcollaborative.org/), an interdisciplinary,
NSF funded initiative to build a cyberinfrastructure to facilitate
solving grand challenge problems in the Plant Sciences. This program
offers students an opportunity to work on a cross-disciplinary team
applying their skills to a research problem at the forefront of Plant
Biology. Students don’t need any specific background, just a desire to
apply their current knowledge and skills to problems in plant biology.
Students must be willing and able to arrive on the UA campus on
Sunday, May 16 to participate in UBRP-CT orientation on May 17, 2010.
Round trip airfare will be provided from the visiting student’s home
institution to Tucson and an allowance of $100/week will be provided
for living expenses in Tucson in addition to wages earned for working
in the laboratory. Students are required to submit a letter of
recommendation from a college professor in their major and an official
transcript as part of the application. If accepted, students must also
provide proof of fall 2010 enrollment at their home institution and
proof of US citizenship (or permanent residency) in the US.
Please share this information with your undergraduate students;
applications are especially encouraged from (but not restricted to)
students of underrepresented groups. Note the Feb. 1, 2010 deadline.
Please contact Carol Bender (ben...@email.arizona.edu, 520-621-9348)
if you have questions about this program.
Thank You,
Martha
Dr. Martha L. Narro
Director Education, Outreach, Training
iPlant Collaborative
Keating 445
University of Arizona
520-626-6814