Subject: [Fwd: UWACM undergrad research night]
From: Craig Chambers (chambers@cs.washington.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 10 2000 - 12:24:09 PST
More info, fyi.
-- Craig
Eugene Hsu wrote:
>
> Professor Chambers,
>
> Hello. I spoke to you earlier today about undergraduate research night,
> and you expressed some interest ... I just wanted to make sure that you
> had all the necessary information. I could send you the official mail,
> but I'll give you an executive summary instead :) --
>
> Research night is an event designed to connect undergraduates who are
> interested in research to graduate students and faculty who want
> undergraduate research assistants. In a way, it's a "career fair". It's
> held usually during autumn and spring quarters (not annually, as I
> mistakenly stated earlier today). The reason for this timing is that new
> undergraduates are admitted every autumn and spring, and many (especially
> those who indend to go to grad school) are interested in research
> opportunities.
>
> For research night, we're basically looking for faculty and grads who'd be
> willing to (1) have undergraduate research assistants, and (2) present a
> 10-15 minute presentation about the research opportunities that they have
> available. In the past, it's proven to be a very popular event, and many
> people have benefitted from the connections that they've established
> during this event (I myself am an RA for Zoran Popovic for the past year,
> and I've been really enjoying it -- I probably wouldn't have heard about
> the opportunity without research night).
>
> The event is going to be held on November 16th from 5:00 to 7:00,
> somewhere in EE1 (I forget the room number right now)...
>
> There's a little clarification I have to make (due to uw/ACM Chair Isaac
> Nichols, who's sitting next to me right now) -- Officially, research night
> is an opportunity for undergraduates to hear about cool research in the
> department, whether they want undergraduate RAs or not. Generally, though,
> there are a few undergraduates that express a lot of interest in each
> project, enough to want to sign up ... it's kind of disheartening to have
> to tell them that there are currently no opportunities available, so we
> generally like to have faculty and grads that are interested in working
> with undergrads...
>
> In any case, thank you very much for your interest; I look forward to
> hearing back from you.
>
> Thank you,
> Eugene Hsu
> uw/ACM Vice Chair
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