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Faculty and Students

Administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)

Also see Faculty Program at a Glance and Student Program at a Glance

For more information, contact Program Manager Libby Kittrell at 865-241-3319 or kittrell@orau.gov
or Program Specialist Pat Pressley at 865-576-3409 or presslep@orau.gov. 

About the Program The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Research Participation Program offers opportunities for faculty and students to participate in research education and training at federal facilities or designated university research programs. Its purpose is to benefit Historically Black Colleges and Universities, their faculty members, their students, and their programs by involving them in NRC research and development activities. The program offers a variety of summer research opportunities for faculty, graduates, and undergraduates to conduct research with NRC contractors.

Disciplines

• Physical sciences

• Engineering

• Computer science

Eligibility

Applicants must be:

• Full-time faculty members or full-time students in good standing at an HBCU

• U.S. citizens or permanent resident aliens

• Undergraduate students must have a minimum GPA of 2.5 on a 4.0 scale
  Graduate students must have a minimum GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale

Seniors applying as graduate students must include a letter of admission to a graduate school at an accredited HBCU.

Benefits

Participants in the program receive stipends, which allow them to concentrate on the valuable training, research, and educational opportunities the program provides.

• Graduate students: $600/week

• Undergraduate students: $500/week

• Faculty members: stipends equal to either their monthly university salary or $3,800 per month, whichever is greater (for summer research appointments)

Travel expenses are reimbursed for one round trip from the participant's home or academic institution to the assigned research facility if the distance is greater than 50 miles one way.

Deadline

Third Tuesday in January.

Applications

Faculty and student applications are available as PDF files on this Web site. To download and print these applications, you must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which may be obtained at no charge from the Adobe Web site: http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html. Application instructions are included as part of the PDF files.

Faculty Application || Student Application

Mail completed applications to:

NRC HBCU Research Participation Program
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, MS 36
P.O. Box 117
Oak Ridge, Tennessee  37831-0117
ATTN: Pat Pressley

Overnight mailing address:

Pat Pressley, SEE, MS 36
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
200 Badger Avenue
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830

Participating Laboratories

Laboratories where Nuclear Regulatory Commission research is being conducted.

Participant Requirements and Obligations

Research participants are required to:

• Devote full-time to their summer research appointments

• Submit a final report of research accomplishments to ORISE

• Acknowledge the support of the laboratory and ORISE in research publications

• Report to ORISE any publications based on research carried out during the appointments

• Provide ORISE with information in follow-up evaluations

• Accept the research laboratory's and ORISE's patent and copyright policies and other policies regarding inventions and proprietary data

• Furnish proof of coverage under a health insurance plan (health insurance fees are the responsibility of the participants)

The offer and acceptance of a research appointment involves no commitment with regard to future employment on the part of the research participant, the participating laboratories, ORISE, or the NRC. During the appointment, each participant is a member of the professional community of the host laboratory and is subject to the rules and responsibilities of that community.

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02/04/04

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