i) The MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP) seeks to promote the value of graduate education; to improve the research enterprise through increased diversity; and to prepare and recruit the best and brightest for graduate education at MIT.

MSRP began in 1986 as an institutional effort to address the issue of underrepresentation of African Americans, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, and Puerto Ricans in engineering and science in the United States. Today, this program seeks to identify talented sophomores, juniors, and non-graduating seniors who might benefit from spending a summer on MIT’s campus, working in a research laboratory under the guidance of experienced scientists and engineers who are MIT faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students. Students who participate in this program will be better prepared and motivated to pursue advanced degrees, thereby helping to sustain a rich talent pool in critical areas of research and innovation.

For more information and to apply (Deadline is January 25th, 2013)  http://odge.mit.edu/undergraduate/msrp/

ii) The Columbia University IGERT on Optical Techniques for Actuation, Sensing, and Imaging of Biological Systems (BioIGERT), a National Science Foundation IGERT program, will support outstanding undergraduates as Summer Research Fellows for the period from June 2 through August 3, 2013. This program provides a $4000 stipend for each successful candidate and free campus housing (worth $2700) in which you are expected to reside. Those selected will have an opportunity to participate fully in the interdisciplinary research activities of the BioIGERT faculty across the Departments of Physics, Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering, and includes collaborative research with industry including IBM Yorktown Heights. 

This is the best summer job you'll ever have, apply now: http://www.bioigert.columbia.edu/rpu/apply.html
For details about BioIGERT, please visit: www.bioigert.columbia.edu

iii) The Moncrief Undergraduate Summer Internship Program at the UT Austin Institute for Computational Engineering and Science is organized to provide summer support for qualified undergraduate students of mathematics, science, and engineering to work within the Institute during the summer months.

Moncrief Summer Interns work with faculty and research staff from one of ICES’ sixteen research centers and groups (full listing at: https://www.ices.utexas.edu/research/centers- groups/)
Research activities generally focus on developing modeling and simulation methods to study problems in areas such as:
 energy, advanced materials, biomedical research, nanomanufacturing, and related areas that draw on applied and computational mathematics, computing, fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, mathematical physics, and biology.
Application deadline: February 1, 2013
Application instructions at: http://www.ices.utexas.edu/programs/summer-internship/
Stipend: $6,000
Dates: Jun – Aug 2013 (10 weeks)
Who should apply: Undergraduate students of mathematics, science,or engineering who are entering their junior or senior year in Fall 2013
Requirements: 3. 0 GPA; U.S. citizens or permanent residents only


iv) The Nebraska Summer Research Program is a consortium of NSF funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) and other summer research opportunities programs (SROP).

One unique feature of the Nebraska Summer Research Program is the partnership between the REU and SROP programs and the Office of Graduate Studies. Students benefit in having a community of scholars in which to learn and to share research with.

This intensive summer research experience provides mentoring and research experiences while allowing scholars to preview graduate school life. Students with a strong interest in graduate programs are particularly encouraged to apply, as are those from populations traditionally underrepresented in graduate education.

For information on individual programs go to: http://www.unl.edu/summerprogram/

Programs: Bioenergy Systems, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Applied Mathematics, Nanomaterials & Nanoscience,Optics and Laser Physics, Redox Biology,Virology

Application Dates
We plan to begin accepting applications on November 14, 2012.
The priority deadline is February 1, 2013.
Complete applications are due on February 15, 2013.

Program Dates
10-week program: June 3 - August 7
8-week program: June 3 - July 26

Travel Dates
Arrival (all): Sunday, June 2
8-week program departure: Saturday, July 27
10-week program departure: Thursday, August 8

MICROSOFT KICKS OFF THE APP CHALLENGE AT UMBC

Students actively enrolled at an accredited educational institution that grants high-school or college/university or equivalent degrees including home schools between September 5^th 2012 and Oct 26^th 2012 can submit up to 3 Windows 8 applications to become eligible for $25 gift certificate. Students (up to 3 in a team) are required to work with an MSP to envision, build and submit an App to the Windows Store.

Join your campus Microsoft Student Partner at The App Challenge Kickoff on Friday, September 14^th during 12-1pm in ITE 459 for details on the challenge and how to sign up. 

Kickoff Facebook Event

Sign up for competition

You are invited to participate in the 6^th Annual Winter Student Leadership Retreat. The retreat is sponsored by the Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland (UMCP).

The purpose of the retreat is to provide an opportunity for underrepresented undergraduate who are majoring or who are planning to major in engineering and/or computer science to build their career, professional, and leadership skills; as well as to network with corporations and student leaders from 4-year colleges/universities and 2-year community colleges in the Washington-Baltimore-Annapolis area. The 2011 retreat included students from: George Mason University, George Washington University, Howard University, Johns Hopkins University, Montgomery College, Morgan State University, Prince George’s Community College, UMBC, and UMCP.

The retreat provides an opportunity for undergraduate students to network with students from local colleges and universities who are studying engineering and/or computer science.  The retreat will be held January 21-22, 2012 (this is the weekend before classes begin at UMCP, UMBC, Morgan, Johns Hopkins).  The retreat will be held at the Sheraton Columbia in Columbia, MD.  The retreat is a two-day retreat with one (1) overnight stay.  There is no cost to students to participate in the retreat.  Students who participate have to commit to participating in all retreat activities over the course of the two days.  Transportation is provided, additional information will be forthcoming to students who participate. 

The retreat is funded by the CIA, W. L. Gore, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and Accenture.  Representatives from these companies attend the retreat and facilitate most of the workshops.  If you are interested in attending the conference in January, Please go to http://www.cmse.umd.edu/events/retreat.html to find more information about the retreat.  Registration is now open!  The deadline to complete the registration form in December 21, 2011.

For more information, please contact LaWanda Kamalidiin, Associate Director for the Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering, at lsaddler@umbc.edu.