Volume 04 | September 2021 |
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WEEKLY UPDATE | UROP @ Georgia Tech |
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The Georgia Tech Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program is excited to share new on and off-campus research opportunities with students to help get hands-on experience for their future careers.
Interested in learning more about Undergraduate Research Opportunities? Click here to visit the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program website.
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URA's Virtual Office Hours are held as 1-on-1 meetings between the student and the selected Research Ambassador via BlueJeans. Research Ambassadors are here to help guide you and figure out your own interests, introduce you to an exclusive list of research positions at the Institute, and email professors.
URA maintains a database of labs interested in having undergrads for this very purpose of helping others start out on the research process. For those already involved in research, we can help with resume edits, applications to PURA and other awards, and practicing for conferences. Stop by Virtual Office Hours to speak to an Ambassador this semester and let us help enhance your educational experience today!
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Are you a transfer student with questions about how to get involved in research? Stop by Transfer Student Office Hours on 9/15 at 5pm! Ambassadors will be present to help answer any questions you may have about research or life at Tech!
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Sign up for a virtual 1:1 session with a recruiter at GE where you will have at least 10 minutes to speak 1:1 with us. We want to provide better options for students besides coming to a career fair and standing in line practicing your elevator pitch only to speak to a recruiter for a few short minutes.
During these sessions, you can book time with us on your own terms to ask us questions and help answer some of yours. When you register prior to your session we will be able to see your resume and the businesses or positions you might be interested in.
To complete your 10-minute timeslot sign up, please email Zach Shaqqo (zach.shaqqo@ge.com) with the subject "GT 1:1 Session" and provide up to 3 times that work for you on 9/15. Zach will follow up with your confirmed time and that will complete your timeslot booking.
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Focus is one of the nation's premier programs for raising awareness of graduate education. It is designed to attract high skilled students who have historically been underrepresented in higher education and encourage them to pursue graduate degrees, hopefully at Georgia Tech.
Focus invites students (third year through graduating seniors) to apply to attend this program, which is open to students around the nation. Accommodations, meals, and transportation subsidies will be provided for all accepted scholars.
The Focus Program provides an opportunity for scholars (students) to:
- learn about Georgia Tech's graduate degree programs
- Visit academic units and research laboratories
- Network with more than 100 scholars with similar interests and MORE!
Applications will be accepted from September 15- November 7, 2021
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Come join us to learn more about Amazon Robotics, our open internship, co-op and full time roles, and to mix and mingle with member of our Engineering and Recruiting teams!
Amazon Robotics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, empowers a smarter, faster, more consistent customer experience through automation. Amazon Robotics automates fulfillment center operations using various methods of robotic technology including sophisticated control software, language perception, power management, computer vision, depth sensing, machine learning, object recognition, and semantic understanding of commands.
Amazon Robotics is located in the epicenter of robotic innovation and has developing corporate and academic partnerships to support innovation throughout the robotics ecosystem, to bring cutting edge technology into the field faster.\
Join us for this virtual even on September 22, at 5:00 PM
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"Regenerative Medicine: Current Concepts and Changing Trends"
Patients with diseased or injured organs may be treated with transplanted tissues. There is a sever shortage of donor organs and tissues which is worsening yearly due to the aging population. Regenerative medicine and tissue engineering apply the principles of cell transplantation, material sciences, and bioengineering to construct biological substitutes that may restore and maintain normal function in diseased and injured tissues. 3D bioprinting is being utilized for potential tissue engineering therapies, and Body-on-a-Chip technologies are being applied for drug discovery and personalized medicine.
Anthony Atala, MD, id the G. Link Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and the W. Boyce Professor and Chair of Department of Urology at Wake Forest University. His work focuses on growing human cells, tissues, and organs. Fifteen applications of technologies developed in Dr. Atala's laboratory have been used clinically in human patients.
To learn more about this event, click here!
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The GT Pre-Graduate and Pre-Professional (PGPP) Advising team and Office of Graduate Studies invite your undergraduates to our inaugural Virtual Graduate School Showcase, October 22, 2021 9:00am-6:00pm. The even is FREE and will have two parts:
Meet Georgia Tech (9am - 3pm ET)
Chat with Recruiters (3pm - 6pm ET)
Additional Opportunities
- Videos and resources about applying to graduate school
- Live opportunities to connect with advisors to ask about applying to graduate school, applying for fellowships, and other topics related to graduate study
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"Engineering Human Tissues for Medical Impact"
Approximately 35 million men and women in the United States suffer from temporomandibular join, or TMJ, problems, and as many as one in four people experience symptoms of TMJ disorders, including pain in the chewing muscles, jaw stiffness, clicking, popping or grating, or the pain of arthritis.
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic and her research team have been able to grow bone grafts that will math a patient's original jaw bone for facial reconstruction surgery to repair injuries, disease, or birth defects. This spectacular advancement in bone tissue engineering provides all the advantages of the body's original jaw bone. The team used real bone as a scaffold to grow the new TMJ graft.
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Seeking Research Innovators! Now accepting applications for 2022 Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars! This is a PAID fellowship program for undergraduates to conduct independent, bio-related research for a full year at the Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB) at Georgia Tech.Students will gain hands-on, paid research experience working alongside top researchers along with receiving a $8,000 stipend to be paid over the course of the year.
Open to undergraduate students from all Atlanta-area universities and colleges.
Application deadline is September 19, 2021.
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These awards are available for science and math undergraduates to initiate research under the supervision of a faculty member. The research project is a mutual agreement between the faculty member and the student. The award provides a stipend of $1,500 for approximately 150 hours of research during a semester. The award may be extended to a second semester w approval of the URSA awards committee. Funds are competitively awarded.
Application to participate in this innovative program is open to all College of Sciences undergraduate students who have at least one full academic year until graduation. Applicants should be in good academic standing and committed to participating in an undergraduate research experience.
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President's Undergraduate Research Awards fund student salaries to conduct undergraduate research with Georgia Tech faculty and offset travel expenses for undergraduates to present their research at professional conferences. Between two hundred and three hundred competitive awards are offered each year.
Salary Awards offer a $1,500 stipend to undergraduate students who are conducting research with a Georgia Tech faculty member or Georgia Tech Research Institute scientist. Both faculty members and students can initiate research projects, but the award proposal must be written by the student, and the student must apply by the established deadline for the semester in which the funds are requested. Funds are competitively awarded.Co-op students or students with full-time paid internships during a semester may not accept PURA funding during that same semester.
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Undergraduate students whose research has been accepted for presentation at a professional or academic conference may apply for up to $1,000 in PURA Travel Award funding. Multiple travel awards can be granted within the same academic year, and students may receive a travel award during the same semester of salary award funding. Funds are competitively awarded.
At this time, we are only accepting PURA travel award applications for registration to attend virtual conferences. We will not be funding in person travel at this time. Please email allyson.tant@gatech.edu if you have further questions.
Applications are to be submitted no earlier than three months prior to the anticipated conference date and no later than one month prior to the anticipated conference date.
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Want to stay informed about other Undergraduate Research Opportunities?
Click here to visit our website and find out about more research opportunities and the staff that make it possible!
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Stop by and say hello!
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
Clough Commons, Suite 205
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DON'T MISS THESE FUTURE EVENTS! |
The VentureWell E-Team Grant Program offers funding and training to student teams developing science and tech innovations focused on solving the world's biggest social, health, and environmental challenges.
Deadline: October 6
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