SUNRISE Education and Research Program, Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering, UND


Would you like to be involved in the development of innovative solutions to the sustainable energy problems currently facing our society? SUNRISE, UND's sustainable energy research group, is offering a 10-week summer research program for chemistry-focused undergraduate research that contributes to the advancement of sustainable energy technologies. Each undergraduate will gain professional research experience working with top researchers in the region. A variety of social activities are planned to enrich your summer in Grand Forks.

>>2012 REU program is subject to availability of funding.<<

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Financial Benefits

• $5,000 stipend
• on-campus housing with 19-meal-per-week plan reimbursement
• travel subsidies

Academic Benefits

• research experience
• exposure to environmental research
• training in safety and ethics
• assistance in choosing your career path

Requirements

• minimum GPA of 3.0
• US citizenship or permanent residence
• sophomore or junior standing (exceptional freshmen and 5th year also encouraged to apply)

Postmark Deadline: April 1, 2012

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Native Americans, Hispanics, and other under-represented groups are encouraged to apply.


How can our program help you?

• Engage in research activities that will introduce you to research as a career option with graduate studies as a next step in your development.
• Increase participation by Native Americans, Hispanics and other underrepresented groups.
• Encourage your interest in sustainable energy chemistry and/or chemical engineering. Fields such as biofuels, wind energy, solar energy, clean coal, and fuel cells can be chosen.
• Provide you with experience in investigating multi-disciplinary problems through collaborative research. The best solutions for today's problems come from a team based approach, drawing from a broad range of expertise provided by inter-disciplinary researchers.
• Help you gain skills to deal with issues concerning the global supply and demand of energy. As the number of issues related to energy proliferate, such as energy security, global warming, the rising cost of energy and potential near-term shortages; the next generation of scientists and engineers will be required to understand, develop and improve sustainable energy technologies.

• Sampling Artifacts in Impedance Spectroscopy of Individual Cells of a 1.2 kW Fuel Cell Stack
  
• Vapor-Liquid Equilibria Through HMC Simulations in the Grand Canonical Ensemble Using a Wang-Landau Sampling
  
• Crystal Nucleation in a Pd-Ni Alloy
  
• Atmospheric Reaction of PAHs
  
• Optimization and Development of Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) for Simultaneous Analysis of a Wide Range of PAHs and Their Polar Derivatives
  
• Synthesis and Application of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube/Iron Oxide Nanoparticle Nanocomposites as Se(IV) Adsorbents
  
• Role of Organic Acids in Atmospheric Aerosols
  

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• Mechanistic Chemistry of TG Oil Cracking
  
• Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (GFAAS) Modeling of Trace Elements (TE) Atomization in Coal Combustion Furnaces
  
• Photovoltaic Cell Manufacture to Explore Ru(II) and Re(I)-Terpyridines
  
• Particulate Emissions from Coal-Biomass Combustion
  
• Development and testing of membrane electrode assemblies (MEA) using UND developed silica-based nanocatalysts
  
• Atmospheric Aerosol Formation from Renewable Biofuels
  
• Computational Chemistry Research in Coal and Biomass Combustion
  
• Scanning tunneling microscopy study on self-assembled monolayers of porphyrin molecules on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite for solar cells
  
• Uncertainty Quantification and Optimization in Modeling Advanced Combustion Systems
  
• The Four-Electron Reduction of Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
  
• Functionalization of aliphatic and aromatic C-H bonds using Pd(II) for Renewable Chemical Production
  
• Pretreatment and Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Forage Sorghum as a Renewable Source for Biofuels and Green Chemicals
  
• Stereospecific Membranes