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Educational Outreach

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Research Experience for Undergraduates

Both OU and UA have ongoing NSF funded Research Experience for Undergraduates programs that are supplemented with additional research positions in materials science and engineering from CSPIN funds. These nine week summer programs are aimed at upper level students who have not yet graduated. They pay a substantial salary for students to engage in mentored research over the summer and to attend regular seminars that discuss topics in modern physics, careers in industry and academia, and provide professional development.

Photo showing the Summer of 2001 microEP REU group from the University of Arkansas.

Group picture of the University of Oklahoma's 2001 RET and REU groups.

Recent MRSEC/REU projects have included:

-The development of laser sensors to detect asthma in patients before its onset.
-The calculation of bound state energies and optical transitions in semiconductor needle crystals.
-The use of anodized aluminum oxide to form masks for semiconductor quantum dots.