A reminder for undergraduates and undergraduate advisors: the deadline for applications to participate in the 1998 CTIO Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program is 26 September 1997. Funding has been approved, and we anticipate offering four Undergraduate Research Assistantships for a 10 week program starting in mid-January 1998.
The CTIO REU program offers students the unique opportunity gain observational experience studying objects in the rich Southern hemisphere (the Magellanic Clouds, the Galactic center, etc.), while also providing them a chance to work alongside Chilean astronomy and engineering students who come to CTIO for summer projects. The CTIO program is also the only NSF REU site that is run during the academic year, providing an alternative to those students who can take advantage of a quarter or semester off and/or who are interested in participating in an overseas program.
For more information, visit our REU web page at: http://www.ctio.noao.edu/reu.html.
Chris Smith (U. Michigan),
Malcolm Smith, Mark Phillips