WiscAMP Sophomore Research Experience and Milwaukee WiscAmp Regional Research Internship Program
(Formerly known as the Undergraduate Research Collaboration)
Application deadline for the 2010 program is February 15.
SRE and MWRRIP are sponsored by the UW-Milwaukee Graduate School, The Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Participation (WiscAMP), and the National Science Foundation (NSF). These programs are technical and undergraduate research opportunities for students who are studying in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) areas. Students must be members of underrepresented groups.
The specific objectives of this program are to:
- Strengthen the resolve of UWM minorities to persist in the STEM fields of study through graduation and enter graduate education.
- Provide valuable research experiences that will increase mathematical and technical skills needed in formal research academics in the STEM fields.
- Provide faculty and peer mentors who will serve as research mentors and positive role models.
- Expand and strengthen the pool of qualified students of color eligible to apply for the McNair Program.
- Provide unique opportunities for faculty and student research collaboration
SRE/MWRRIP provides an eight-week summer research internship. The internship will revolve around a student pursuing a research project supervised by a UWM faculty mentor. Personal and academic counseling will be provided by the advising staff of the Ronald McNair and Committee on Institutional Cooperation Summer Research Opportunity programs.
SRE/MWRRIP scholars will also participate in all summer activities with the McNair and CIC Scholars who are preparing for graduate school after completing their undergraduate studies. The faculty-mentored research project will be featured at a to-be-scheduled formal research day at UWM. Students will also be able to take advantage of organized graduate school visits to three major research universities. In all, this program will provide excellent opportunities for students to build a lasting relationship with a faculty mentor, and to be exposed to educational experiences designed to attract them to graduate education and intensive research in STEM fields of study.
This proposed program will award each student a $2,800 summer stipend and $500 of research support for the respective faculty mentor. Program participants will be selected by the same faculty committee that selects the McNair and CIC participants based on the student's academic record, two letters of recommendation, and a written personal statement authored by the applicant.
Applications and information on these exciting opportunities are available here, in the McNair Office in Mitchell Hall 239, or at (414) 229-6728.
NSF STEM Classification of Instructional Programs
Listed below are the NSF CIP Code and major for STEM disciplines.
- Agricultural Sciences
- 01.09 - Animal Sciences
- 01.10 - Food Science and Technology
- 01.12 - Soil Sciences
- 01.99 - Agriculture, Agriculture Operations and Related Sciences, Other
- 03.0101 - Natural Resources/Conservation, General
- 03.02 - Natural Resources Management and Policy
- 03.03 - Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management
- 03.05 - Forestry
- 03.06 - Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management
- 03.99 - Natural Resources and Conservation, Other
- Chemistry
- 40.05 - Chemistry
- 40.0507 - Polymer Chemistry
- Computer Science
- 11.01 - Computer and Information Sciences, General
- 11.04 - Information Science/Studies
- 11.07 - Computer Science
- 52.1201 - Management Information Systems, General
- 52.1301 - Management Science, General
- Engineering
- 14.02 - Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
- 14.03 - Agricultural/Biological Engineering and Bioengineering
- 14.05 - Biomedical/Medical Engineering
- 03.0509 - Wood Science and Wood Products/Pulp and Paper Technology
- 14.07 - Chemical Engineering
- 14.32 - Polymer/Plastics Engineering
- 04.02 - Architecture
- 14.04 - Architectural Engineering
- 14.08 - Civil Engineering
- 14.0803 - Structural Engineering
- 14.0805 - Water Resources Engineering
- 14.14 - Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering
- 14.09 - Computer Engineering, General
- 14.10 - Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
- 14.12 - Engineering Physics
- 14.13 - Engineering Science
- 14.27 - Systems Engineering
- 30.06 - Systems Science and Theory
- 14.11 - Engineering Mechanics
- 14.19 Mechanical Engineering
- 14.06 - Ceramic Sciences and Engineering
- 14.18 - Materials Engineering
- 14.20 - Metallurgical Engineering
- 14.28 - Textile Sciences and Engineering
- 14.31 - Materials Science
- 40.9999 - Physical Sciences, Other
- 14.21 - Mining and Mineral Engineering
- 14.23 - Nuclear Engineering
- 14.25 - Petroleum Engineering
- 14.01 - Engineering, General
- 14.22 - Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
- 14.24 - Ocean Engineering
- 14.99 - Engineering, Other
- Environmental Science
- 03.0103 - Environmental Studies
- 03.0104 - Environmental Science
- Geosciences
- 40.06 - Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences
- 40.0601 - Geology/Earth Science, General
- Life/Biological Sciences
- 26.0403 - Anatomy
- 26.0202 - Biochemistry
- 26.01 - Biology, General
- 26.1101 - Biometry/ Biometrics
- 26.1102 - Biostatistics
- 26.1309 - Epidemiology
- 26.0203 - Biophysics
- 26.03 - Botany/Plant Biology
- 26.0305 - Plant Pathology/Phytopathology
- 26.0307 - Plant Physiology
- 26.04 - Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences
- 26.0401 - Cell/Cellular Biology and Histology
- 26.0204 - Molecular Biology
- 26.1301 - Ecology
- 26.0505 - Parasitology
- 26.0702 - Entomology
- 26.0804 - Animal Genetics
- 26.0805 - Plant Genetics
- 26.1303 - Evolutionary Biology
- 26.0806 - Human/Medical Genetics
- 26.05 - Microbiological Sciences and Immunology
- 26.0507 - Immunology
- 26.0504 - Virology
- 26.0503 - Medical Microbiology and Bacteriology
- 19.05 - Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services
- 30.1901 - Nutritional Sciences
- 26.0910 - Pathology/Experimental Pathology
- 26.1004 - Toxicology
- 26.1001 - Pharmacology
- 26.1004 - Toxicology
- 26.0707 - Animal Physiology
- 26.0901 - Physiology, General
- 26.09 - Series Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences
- 26.07 - Zoology/Animal Biology
- 26.1201 - Biotechnology
- 26.99 - Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other
- 30.01 - Biological and Physical Sciences
- 30.10 - Biopsychology
- Mathematics
- 27.01 - Mathematics
- 27.03 - Applied Mathematics
- 14.3701 - Operations Research
- 27.99 - Mathematics and Statistics, Other
- 30.08 - Mathematics and Computer Science
- 27.05 - Statistics
- 52.1304 - Actuarial Science
- Physics/Astronomy
- 40.02 - Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 40.08 - Physics
- 40.0807 - Optics/Optical Sciences
- 40.0809 - Acoustics.