Broadening Participation Pledge

Throughout the decade, as SRC defines, selects, and manages its research and education programs, we will look to grow our student base, establish a balanced mix of bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D.-level initiatives, and create a more diverse and inclusive community.

Undergraduate awards at SUPREME

1. Undergraduate Research Award: $3000 each (direct cost). The purpose of this award is to support undergraduate researchers in the SUPREME PI’s group by covering their hourly salary, or the experimental expense including nanofabrication fee and material characterization cost, etc. One goal of this grant is to expose more undergraduate students to real lab research including cleanroom works. The eligible candidates will be undergraduate students working in the laboratories of the SUPREME PI’s, either internal or external to the PI’s institution. Awarding preference of the “SUPREME UG Microelectronics Fellows” awards is linked with that of the UG travel award (Award #2, see below) to attend the SUPREME annual reviews (the 2024 Review will be held in Boston in early June).
2. Undergraduate Travel Award for SUPREME annual review: $1000 each (direct cost). This award is to bring undergraduate researchers in the SUPREME PI’s group to the SUPREME center annual reviews and allow them to present their research results with posters. In alignment with the travel support to graduate students for the annual review, this travel award is limited to non-Cornell groups. Meanwhile, we highly encourage local groups to send as many undergraduate attendees as they can to the annual reviews.

Application Process:

For both awards, the application materials will be sent by the nominating SUPREME PI to Jennifer LaMendola at supreme-admin@cornell.edu. The application materials for Award #1 (research award) include (a) a CV from the applicant, (b) a short (one page at maximum) research proposal. The application materials for Award #2 (travel award) include (a) a CV from the applicant, (b) a tentative title of the poster.

Application Deadline and Review:

For Award 1, the application is accepted on a rolling basis until the funding is used up. The decision on the award will be made monthly. For Award 2, the deadline is one month or more prior to the annual review and the decision will be made a few days after the deadline. This will give enough time for planning the travel to the annual review.