12 Honors College students are participating in prestigious Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) programs in the math and sciences this summer. REU's are highly competitive programs sponsored by the National Science Foundation. More information about REU's is online. A follow-up story is also online.

Nathan van Zee was awarded the American Chemical Society's International REU Scholarship, which covers his expenses to conduct research in Germany and attend two conferences in Washington, D.C.

Lindsay McCullough is at Carnegie Mellon University doing single molecule motor tracking in cells.

Justin Owen is at Cornell University studying fractals.

Stephen Rowe is researching matrix analysis and fractals at Texas A&M University.

Sara Crimi is participating in an REU in mathematics at Duke University.

Isaac Defrain is working on problems in functional analysis at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire (Isaac's roommate has an internship at NASA @ Langley labs in Virginia, working on applications of lidar to ozone).

William Severa is working on Algorithmic Combinations at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.

Other Honors College students are participating in REU's at Colorado State, James Madison University in Virginia, University of South Carolina, Brigham Young in Provost, UT, and Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI.

6-19-09