{"id":768,"date":"2011-12-21T17:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T00:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glencora.org\/?p=768"},"modified":"2012-01-28T00:11:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T00:11:03","slug":"wonderful-funded-undergraduates-for-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/2011\/12\/21\/wonderful-funded-undergraduates-for-the-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonderful, funded undergraduates for the summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The solicitation for summer research projects for undergraduates <a href=\"https:\/\/parasol.tamu.edu\/dreu\/Application.php\">from the CRA-W is out: the DREU<\/a>. \u00a0I highly recommend proposing a project. \u00a0For those who haven&#8217;t heard of it, the DREU are Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (from Underrepresented Groups in Computer Science and Engineering).\u00a0How it works: profs suggest projects; students apply; the fine people who run DREU match students to profs, handle payment and logistics for the students; the students show up and you get them for 10 weeks. \u00a0It has a very high reward to effort ratio.<\/p>\n<p>The students are amazing. \u00a0I had one student through DREU two summers ago. \u00a0It worked out so well, she came back as my Masters student, and I hope she&#8217;ll continue to do a Ph.D. with me. \u00a0(Recruitment tool, anyone?) \u00a0I would have hoped to repeat this last summer, but I instead advised two (also amazing) students through an in-house <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.oregonstate.edu\/~math_reu\/\">REU program run by the math department at OSU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for suggesting projects is February 15, and generally they are short on projects, not on students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The solicitation for summer research projects for undergraduates from the CRA-W is out: the DREU. \u00a0I highly recommend proposing a project. \u00a0For those who haven&#8217;t heard of it, the DREU are Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (from Underrepresented Groups in Computer Science and Engineering).\u00a0How it works: profs suggest projects; students apply; the fine people who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[106190,3514],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tcs","tag-undergraduate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}