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Last Name

First Name (Legal)

First Name

Email Address

Date of Birth MM-DD-YYYY

Gender

Pronouns

If you selected other to the question above, please provide pronouns:

Citizenship Status

What best describes your ethnicity?

Are you of Hispanic, Latinx, or Spanish Origin? A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central America, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.

What best describes your race? You may check more than one if appropriate.

Mailing Street Address

Mailing Street Address 2

Mailing Street City

Mailing State

Mailing Zip Code

Phone Number XXX-XXX-XXXX

Permanent Street Address

Permanent Street Address 2

Permanent City

Permanent State

Permanent Zip Code

Permanent Country

Permanent Phone Number

Have you participated in an NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates program in the past?

Will you have completed a bachelor's degree prior to December 2022?

Current Educational Institution (Name):

Location (City, State) of Educational Institution:

Major or Field of Study:

GPA

Do you feel your GPA accurately reflects your academic ability and potential?

Please explain your answer to the question above

Please indicate which biology, microbiology, chemistry, environmental science, and engineering courses you will have completed prior to the REU experience

Military Service and Veteran Status

Are you a first-generation college student?

Are you a member of the lgbtqiqa2+ community?

Do you receive financial aid as an undergraduate?

If you answered yes to the question above, please indicate the type of financial aid you received

We aim to conduct an in-person REU program on the MSU campus. If the pandemic worsens and we are forced to offer an exclusively online/virtual experience, would you still be willing to participate in the program?

Academic Reference Name

Academic Reference's Affiliation to Student

Academic Reference's Email

First Choice Mentor List the faculty mentors in this training program with whom you would like to work with (see the Faculty Mentors page).

Potential summer research project(s) with the mentor that interest you First Choice Mentor

Second Choice Mentor List the faculty mentors in this training program with whom you would like to work with (see the Faculty Mentors page).

Area of Interest for Research Proposed Second Choice Mentor

Third Choice Mentor List the faculty mentors in this training program with whom you would like to work with (see the Faculty Mentors page).

Area of Interest for Research Proposed Third Choice Mentor

Once you have completed the form, please be sure to submit your additional documents to our application portal.

Please use the following file naming convention:

lastname_firstname_statement

lastname_firstname_transcript

lastname_firstname_resume

You must submit:

1) Your resume (maximum of two pages)

2) Two-page personal statement, answering:

1. Why are you interested in the Extreme Biofilms research program? As part of your response, please also include a short-term (for the summer research experience) and long-term (broader educational and career) goal you have.

2. What unique qualities and characteristics will you bring to the summer research experience, and how are they shaped by your educational and life experiences?

3. Our lives have all been enhanced by exposure to diverse people, places, or experiences. How will you contribute to creating a campus environment that is welcoming and inclusive? How do you communicate with people who are different from you?

3) Unofficial transcript

Your reference must also submit a recommendation letter. Please arrange to have your recommendation letter uploaded to our recommendation letter portal using the following format for the filename: Last Name.First Name of Applicant_Last Name.First Name of Recommender (e.g. Smith.Pat_Williams.Aaron. where Pat Smith is the name of the student and Aaron Williams is the name of the recommender).

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