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The National Science
Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NSF EPSCoR)
is a grant-funded program to improve the science and technology infrastructure
in select states which have not had competitive extramural funding levels.
Funded by NSF EPSCoR,
the Undergraduate Summer Diversity Research Program at The University
of Montana is designed to provide undergraduate students with an opportunity
to be actively involved with scientific or technological research in an
academic setting. Participants are recruited from universities whose student
bodies are largely comprised of students from diverse ethnic, racial or
cultural backgrounds. Emphasis is placed upon undergraduates who have
had little prior opportunities to work in a laboratory or field research
setting.
Following a competitive
selection process, students are matched with UM faculty who are actively
involved in research. The selected students are flown to Missoula, Montana,
in June for a ten-week program designed to expose them to research and
academic opportunities at The University of Montana, and to experience
the "Big Sky Country" at its finest.
Students work side
by side with world-class faculty, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate
students, experiencing, first-hand, what a science research career has
to offer. With the aid of faculty mentors, students are counseled and
advised about graduate school and the various science programs available
at The University of Montana.
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