NSF Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory REU

About the Program: The NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, TUNL, enables students to become directly involved in low-energy experimental nuclear physics research. TUNL researchers are faculty, staff, and students from the physics departments of NC State University, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Duke University.

Program Activities: Students participate in a ten-week summer program combining research work, lectures, and social activities. Each student is assigned to a research group and works with a professor along with staff and graduate students to complete a well-defined project. When possible, the student’s project involves the use or development of one of our on-site accelerators or target systems, and often contributes to the group’s ongoing experimental program.

TUNL provides a lecture series that is designed for undergraduate students and covers a wide range of topics. Subjects include an introduction to nuclear physics concepts, historical reviews of physics, and the relationship between physics and medicine, art, or society.

Other Information: Social activities allow for comfortable interaction between undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral research staff, and faculty.

For more information:

TUNL Laboratory

Phone: (919) 660-2600

E-mail: reu@tunl.duke.edu

Website: www.tunl.duke.edu/Undergrad/REU/reu.shtml