NOAO expects to have a number of full-time research assistant positions available to undergraduate students at its three divisions in 1998. Under the NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, plans for undergraduate site programs at KPNO in Tucson, NSO in Sunspot, and CTIO in La Serena are now underway. The KPNO and NSO research programs are twelve-week summer positions scheduled to start in early June. The CTIO program will be held for ten weeks from mid-January through March 1998.
The three NOAO site programs are open to promising science, mathematics, or engineering undergraduates who are interested in working on challenging research projects with NOAO astronomers--either with a view to graduate school, a career in science, or simply to gain practical experience in the research methods, instrumentation, and data analysis tools specific to astronomy and astrophysics.
Applications for the CTIO program must be received by 26 September 1997. (For more information see the CTIO section of this Newsletter.) Applications for KPNO and NSO will not be due until 15 February 1998. Please check the NOAO REU website (www.noao.edu) in December for KPNO and NSO deadlines and contacts.
NOAO is specifically interested in recruiting to this program undergraduate students who may have limited opportunity to engage in hands on observational research projects in their home colleges or universities. NOAO also aims to recruit qualified undergraduates from student groups traditionally underrepresented in scientific research, especially women, minorities, and the disabled.
Diane Brouillette