2nd call for mentors for SCEC interns

Greetings, SCEC scientists,

We are about to start recruiting for summer 2007 SCEC interns (http://www.scec.org/internships). It is exceedingly helpful to recruit students with information about actual mentors and projects. Thus, if you are potentially interested in being a 2007 mentor to a SURE (Summer Undergraduate Research Experience) student, please follow the guidelines below and contact me now about your student project.

Thanks and regards,

Sue Perry (perry@gps.caltech.edu, perry@usc.edu)

----- TO BECOME A 2007 SCEC/SURE MENTOR
No later than Nov 22, 2006, send an email to Sue Perry with the following information:
1) A one paragraph project description, which will be posted on the internship website for potential candidates. The description should include a statement of the scientific problem, research location, student responsibilities, necessary skills and educational preparation;
2) The certainty of your availability, and if you are not 100% certain, when you will know for sure;
3) The general time span when your intern would need to be available;
4) Whether you have mentor time, funding, and projects for more than one intern (and if so, how many).

----- FUNDING
To streamline program administration and enable students to make timely summer plans, every 2007 SURE intern will be paid as follows:
I. Each Mentor will pay $2500 of the $5000 SURE intern research stipend and any local institutional overhead on this $2.5k; The mentor contribution may come from any source, or combination of sources, including but not limited to SCEC grants or NSF REU Supplements.
II. SCEC pays the remaining $2500 of the research stipend, plus a travel stipend and the full cost of attending the intern field trip and SCEC Annual Meeting.