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FAQ and general information |
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| When will I be notified of program selection? | Final selection is generally completed by mid-March, although some applicants are notified earlier. If you need an answer sooner, for example if you have received another project offer that you must reply to, contact the program coordinator, listed below. |
| Do I arrange my own travel? | Partially. If you are selected, we will put you into contact with our travel agent. With the agent's assistance, you will arrange your own flights to and from your school, the Oregon schools, and your lab. Then the arrangements will be approved by the program coordinator and charged to the Solid State program. Please be aware that there will be few direct flights available and travel days may start early, go long, and entail layovers. This is not something we control. |
| Can you accommodate modified dates? | So your school starts before our project ends, your cousin is getting married and you are the bridesmaid, you have an opportunity to spend the last few project days at a lab in Paris, & etc. It doesn't hurt to ask if we can accommodate modified dates. We discourage this, but can occasionally work something out. We look at each situation individually. |
| Who will be my day-to-day supervisor during research? | In most of our host labs, you will be supervised directly by a graduate student in the host's research group (56%) or a post doc scientist (44%). It is extremely rare to be supervised directly by the hosting faculty member. |
| How do I find housing? | As we are placing students around the country in different labs each year, we don't have a one-size fits all solution. At some schools, students are housed in the dorms, sometimes with other REU students. At others, students find apartments nearby. Your host is asked to help you arrange housing, but you will likely need to put in some effort. |
| Can I work with a host faculty from my home institution? | This project discourages applicants from spending the summer at their home institution. One of the project goals is to broaden the horizons of our selected students, and to allow them to test the waters of a graduate school experience at a different university. We will consider special circumstances for a student to research at their home institution, but encourage students to look further afield. |
| What if I need support while I am at my host lab? | If you have general questions or problems that arise while at your host lab, you may always email or call the Solid State program coordinator, Anae Rosenberg. Email works best. If you need something with respect to your research project from your supervisor or host faculty, be sure to speak up! Find out the best way to get his/her attention. Talk to the people in your lab. Send an email, make a call, set up a meeting. Do not waste your valuable time waiting as days go by because you need direction, or a new project piece. Go looking for the answers. This experience is meant to give you a taste of what it's like to be a graduate student. It is not a neatly packaged undergraduate course. It is something that you must direct and control to your best ability. |
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Other Questions? Contact: |
Andy Bedingfield
(andyb@uoregon.edu) |