Georgia Tech Petit Scholars

This is a year-long program for undergraduates, with the following stipend schedule: 

$1,450 stipend for spring semester - work 12+ hours a week

$3,000 stipend for summer session - work 40+ hours a week

$1,450 stipend for fall semester - work 12+ hours a week

Eligibility: open to students at Georgia Tech, Morehouse College, Georgia State University, Emory University and Agnes Scott College

Description:  This competitive scholarship program allows undergraduates to conduct independent research in state-of-the-art biotech laboratories at IBB. The program runs from January 2011 to December of 2011 and serves to develop the next generation of leading bioengineering and bioscience researchers by providing a comprehensive research experience for an entire year.  Applications are now being accepted with a deadline of Friday, September, 17, 2010. 

For more information about the program (including a link to the online application), please visit:  Petit Scholars http://petitscholars.gatech.edu

For additional information, contact

Colly O'Brien Mitchell

Special Projects Coordinator

Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)

315 Ferst Drive, Suite 1115

Atlanta GA 30332-0363 USA

phone: 404.894.5982

fax: 404.894.2291

http://www.ibb.gatech.edu

NSF website features SURE alumnus Brian Hare

See http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=117528&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click for a feature on Brian Hare, SURE fellow circa mid 1990's and current faculty member in the anthropology department at Duke University.

This item highlight's Brian's work with bonobos.