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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From: </b>Reu <<a href="mailto:reu@phys.ksu.edu">reu@phys.ksu.edu</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Subject: Please Share with your Undergrads: Summer Research Opportunity in Physics at Kansas State University</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Date: </b>November 18, 2020 at 1:53:08 PM CST<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Cc: </b>Reu <<a href="mailto:reu@phys.ksu.edu">reu@phys.ksu.edu</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">We would like to ask you to encourage undergraduate students at your institution who are completing their degrees in Physics to consider pursuing our NSF-funded Research
Experiences for Undergraduate (REU) program here at Kansas State University.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Our department will host our program entitled<span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span><i>Interactions of Matter, Light and Learning</i><span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span>for
10 weeks next summer, pending the COVID-19 status. We invite your students who have completed a course in modern physics to apply. To this end, we ask that you forward the attached poster to your undergraduate physics majors and minors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Student participants will be involved with a variety of research projects at the leading edge of research. For example, students will study cosmology; ultrafast lasers
and attosecond physics; nanoparticle materials; high energy and neutrino physics; biological physics; and physics education research. They will have access to our state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Kansas Light Source ultrafast high intensity laser. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">All students will be full participants in active research groups, and will be mentored by faculty who are recognized for their research and their teaching abilities.
For example, our atomic physics program is highly rated, and one of our faculty members has been recognized by the Carnegie Foundation as National Professor of the Year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Students selected to participate will receive a $5,450 stipend, $750 travel allowance, and on-campus room and board, for a value of over $8,500. They will live on campus
with students in this and other REU programs and will have access to all the usual facilities at Kansas State: libraries, recreation centers, and so on.<span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Online applications are available at<span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.phys.ksu.edu_reu&d=DwMFAg&c=oqyuZuih6ykib6aKiBq22_bich4AVfYGoLertJN0bEc&r=oPHX933s0QxGh0LKaD80CQbTBmY6tYbw-FCePPPwFYM&m=3QLwyZWqW-nUNtbIaUciyFfNZj3XXuAZZmZNKuGwp9M&s=9XdJI3rLGzNksWpFxKqEoqCRT7BZM2_XXYdbBfMvQ7c&e="><b><span style="color:#0563C1">www.phys.ksu.edu/reu</span></b></a>.
An unofficial transcript and letter of reference are also required. We will begin reviewing applications on February 15 and will continue until all places are filled.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">If you or your students have any questions or would like more information, please do not hesitate to contact us at (785)532-1612 or e-mail<span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:reu@phys.ksu.edu"><b><span style="color:#0563C1">reu@phys.ksu.edu</span></b></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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