Our program focuses especially on recruiting students from community colleges and non-PhD-granting institutions, but we do accept a few students from research-intensive universities as well. Discover more information and apply online.
UC Santa Cruz Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Sustainable Materials, Summer 2024
The program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to engage in research in physics, chemistry, and engineering related to the discover and study of materials that can be used in future sustainable technologies such as low-power electronic devices, renewable energy sources, and biomimetic devices.
Program Details
- Duration: 8 weeks (6/23/2024 – 8/17/2024)
- Stipend: $700/week
- On-campus housing and travel stipends if traveling from out of town
- Weekly group meetings
- Academic, technical, and professional development sessions
- Social events and field trips to National Labs
- Final research symposium
Eligibility
- Be a rising sophomore, junior, or senior in an institution of higher education in the United States (i.e. have completed your first year by the end of the 2023–24 school year)
- Have a minimum 2.8 GPA in STEM undergraduate courses
- Be a US citizen of permanent resident
Sample Research Projects
- Bioelectronic Devices
- Antiferromagnetic Spintronics
- Magnetoelectric and Quantum Materials
- Nono-magnetooptics
- Phononic Metamaterials
- Organometal Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots
- Materials for Photovoltaic Applications
- Synthesis and Characterization of Metal Organic Frameworks
- Two-dimensional Materials
- X-ray Spectroscopy of Complex Materials
- Spintronics
- Computational Materials
Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis starting on March 1, 2024. Discover more information and apply online.
