Discovery Park Undergraduate Research Internship program seeking summer semester proposals

Discovery Park is seeking faculty proposals in support of the Discovery Park Undergraduate Research Internship program. The DURI program supports undergraduate interdisciplinary teams while they investigate problems in various strategic areas over the course of 10 weeks (approximately May 20-July 26).

The focus of these faculty project proposals must be on one of Discovery Park’s specific thematic areas: global security, global health or global sustainability. Each project proposal should be designed to bring together undergraduate researchers from across a broad range of humanities and STEM disciplines. Projects should be interdisciplinary, involving at least two or more distinct academic disciplines, and encourage inclusion of the humanities, the social sciences, and others beyond the STEM disciplines to create comprehensive solutions. Projects also should be designed to involve at least two or more (but no more than five) undergraduate students.

Interested faculty can submit abstracts for individual projects at the DURI website. The deadline for proposal submissions is March 11. Accepted proposals will be announced on March 18.

Undergraduate students may then apply for up to three projects from March 18 to March 31. Faculty project supervisors will review all eligible student applications before making final selections. Each participating student will earn a $4,500 summer fellowship, which will consist of $1,500 in cost-sharing from the faculty project supervisor(s), as well as $3,000 in support from DURI.

More information is available on the DURI website. Faculty can direct any questions to Peter Bermel, who is directing the program, at pbermel@purdue.edu. Torsten Reimer at treimer@purdue.edu will serve as a consultant to aid in matching project leads in Engineering, Science, and Polytechnic with relevant experts from other colleges.