Summer REU Programs
Even as undergraduates, our students are encouraged to explore research. As they get valuable experience—in some cases paid—they gain insight into their potential to pursue serious independent research and/or advanced studies.
Chemistry
NSF-REU Summer Research Program
- Director: Holly Gaede
- Phone: 458-3337
- Website: www.chem.tamu.edu/research/undergraduate/
- Description: The program, funded by the National Science Foundation, focuses on interdisciplinary projects in biological, environmental, and materials chemistry. In our program, students become full members of a research group, carrying out fundamental research on topics that span the chemical sciences.
Cyclotron Institute
Summer REU Program
- Director: Sherry Yennello
- Phone: 845-7361
- Website: cyclotron.tamu.edu/reu/
- Description: The institute's K500 superconducting cyclotron offers challenging research opportunities for undergraduates as well as graduate students interested in nuclear science.
Diversity
Summer REU Program/Summer Scholars Program
- Director: Sherry Yennello
- Phone: 845-7361
- Website: www.science.tamu.edu/summerscholars/
- Description: The College of Science annually hosts students for summer research experiences as well as an optional supplement, the Summer Scholars Program, that helps minority students build a community.
Mathematics
Algebraic Methods in Computational Biology
- Director: J. Maurice Rojas
- Phone: 845-2083
- Website: www.math.tamu.edu/research/undergrad/REU/programs.html#alg
- Description: Among the sciences, biology is unique in the subtlety of its mathematical foundations. This program focuses on recent applications of algebraic geometry to problems in protein folding and phylogenetic trees. Our main goal is to impart enough background to students so they have the freedom to be as algebraic and/or biological as they want to be.
Mathematical Modeling in Ecology and Physiology
- Director: Paulo Lima-Filho
- Phone: 845-1981
- Website: www.math.tamu.edu/research/undergrad/REU/programs.html#eco
- Description: In this interdisciplinary program, we explore mathematical aspects of a wide variety of models arising in mathematical ecology and mathematical physiology. In the modeling of complex ecosystems, the main emphasis is the impact of changes in the landscape topology on populations, including its distribution and dynamics. Two subareas are emphasized - deterministic modeling using differential equations and stochastic modeling using techniques from statistics.
Matrix Analysis and Wavelet Theory
- Director: David Larson
- Phone: 845-3623
- Website: www.math.tamu.edu/research/undergrad/REU/programs.html#wave
- Description: Wavelets, powerful tools used in signal analysis, is the subject of theoretical study because of their wide applications. The research area of the head mentor, Dr. Larson, involves the theory behind wavelets, although some participants in the past REU programs have worked on projects involving the use of wavelets in signal filtering and signal compression.