Summer Undergraduate Research
Summer Undergraduate Research
Summer research opportunities are only open to current UNI students. The stipend for the program will be at least $4000 for a ten-week period, from May 20 to July 26, 2024. The student will be expected to treat the research experience as a full-time commitment during the ten-week period.
The student will make oral presentations for their peers and faculty during the course of the 10-week project. At the completion of the program, the student will write a formal research paper on their summer project and will do a poster presentation in conjunction with other CHAS students involved in summer research.
Want to get involved?
To get involved in research, browse the faculty research descriptions to find a faculty member whose research interests you. Then, make appointments to meet with the faculty whose research you'd like to join. This is an important step, since it will help the faculty member determine if you are a good fit for their research program. After that, fill out the online application form indicating your top two preferred faculty mentors.
Justin Peters
Areas of Interest: Biochemistry. Studying subsurface microbial communities within Wind Cave National Park. Using atomic force microscopy to examine protein-mediated DNA looping in the context of supercoiled DNA plasmids. Elucidating the role of electrostatic charge and shape in determining the electrophoretic mobility of DNA.
Joshua Sebree
Areas of Interest: Experimental and field studies relating to the early Earth, particular interest is the chemistry of conditions that will lead to the formation and sustaining of life.
Kirk Manfredi
Areas of Interest: Discovering new antibiotics from fungi that are found to produce antimicrobial compounds. These fungi come from native prairie plants and, now, also from those found in the Wind Cave project funded by NASA. Current focus is to isolate fungal DNA which is used to identify the fungus and in the purification of fungal colonies.
Colin Weeks
Areas of Interest: Inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry. There are two main areas of research in my lab. 1) A project on materials for analytical applications has produced promising results that we are in the process of patenting. 2) Metal-organic framework materials are crystalline polymeric materials can form a wide array of structures and can have interesting properties such as microporosity and magnetism.
