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News
- Arjun Chainani, the 2025 REU FoDoMMaT fellow, among 38 UIUC students recognized with the 2025 Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Fellowship Award for his outstanding interdisciplinary contributions to his SPIN Academic Year 2024-25 project entitled “Building and Testing the LSST Supernova Recommendation System”. Congratulations, Arjun!
- Sophia Witola Reyes, the 2024 REU FoDoMMaT fellow, is among 12 UIUC students who were selected as the Illinois’ 2025 Mayo Clinic Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows. Congratulations, Sophia, on this great achievement!
- NCSA Awarded Funding to Continue AI-focused NSF REU Program – NSF awarded NCSA with a $465,000 grant to continue providing these summer opportunities for undergraduate researchers for an additional three years.
- REU FoDOMMaT Students Dive Deep into Machine Learning and Deep Learning
- Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REU) programs provide a one-of-a-kind experience for students interested in careers in research.
- NCSA Awards 24 Fiddler Innovation Fellowships to Illinois Students, Faculty
Congratulations to Morgan Cosillo, REU FoDOMMaT fellow, for receiving the 2022 Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Award! - NCSA Receives Honors in 2022 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards
REU FoDOMMaT wins the annual HPCwire Editors’ Choice Workforce Diversity & Inclusion Leadership Award announced at Supercomputing Conference 2022 (SC22) in Dallas on Nov. 14. Congratulations to all REU FoDOMMaT fellows and mentors! - NSF Awards $405,000 to NCSA for Research Experience for Undergraduates Site Program
Through NCSA and its Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation, the REU program provides specialized hands-on training to students across the nation. - NCSA Awards 20 Fiddler Innovation Fellowships to Illinois Students and Faculty
Congratulations to Haihley Connors, REU INCLUSION fellow, for receiving the 2021 Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Award. - NCSA awards 16 Fiddler Innovation Fellowships to Illinois students and faculty
Congratulations to Mary Cook and Sneh Pandya, REU INCLUSION fellows, for receiving the 2020 Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Award - Bomsaerah Seong, REU-INCLUSION Summer 2019 fellow, co-authored a paper entitled Crowd-Sourced Data and Analysis Tools for Advancing the Chemical Vapor Deposition of Graphene: Implications for Manufacturing
- Sustaining diversity and INCLUSION throughout a summer of social distancing
Congratulations to Hector Cruz, Computer Engineering, Inter-American University of Puerto Rico for completing the REU INCLUSION fellowship with a distinction! - NCSA Summer Research Exposes Undergrads to Open Source Software, Possible Future Careers
- 15 students and five faculty from Illinois receive NCSA’s Fiddler Innovation Fellowship
- INCLUSION REU exposes undergrads to computational research using open source software
- NCSA Student Spotlight: Sarah Habib
- Undergrads experience open source software and interdisciplinary research via REU-INCLUSION
- Illinois Summer Research Symposium Showcases Undergraduates’ REU Experiences
- Erica Pereira and Nicole Pontanza, REU-INCLUSION Summer 2018 fellows, received the 2018 Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award for exceptional and interdisciplinary contributions to their INCLUSION projects. Congratulations!!!
- NCSA REU intern Erica Pereira combines massive civic tech data sets with visualization to make social insights more accessible than ever before.
- Congratulations to two REU-INCLUSION students who received Honorable Mention at the 2017 Illinois Summer Research Symposium. Gavin Ridley’s talk about his research project Transient Simulations of Next Generation Nuclear Reactors was acknowledged in Outstanding Oral Presentation category. Alexander Dickenson was recognized in Outstanding Poster category for his poster Computational Reproducibility of Physics Research.
- INCLUSION REU seeks to foster diversity while exposing undergraduates to coding via open source software
Past Events
Learn more
Watch a recording of our informational webinar from 12/4/2025. This webinar includes a general overview of summer research experiences with tips on crafting a competitive application. It also includes short introductions from several ISRPA programs who participated in the webinar.
2025 REU FoDoMMaT Program Dates and Events (required attendance)
| Event/Activity | Day/Time | Place |
|---|---|---|
| Joint Summer REU & SPIN Lightning Talks on Tuesdays from June 17 to July 15 | July 1, 8,15, 21 @ 1-2:15 pm | NCSA 1104 |
| Coffee Hour with Bill Gropp | Wed., July 9 @ 9 am – 10 am | NCSA 4000 |
| National Petascale Computing Facility Tour | Fri., July 25 @ 2 pm | 1725 S Oak St, Champaign |
| 3rd Annual STEM Career Expo& Symposium | Thu., July 24, 8:30 am – 3:45 pm Registration by July 1 | Illini Union |
| Final Report Due | Tue., July 29 by 5 pm | Email to Olena by 5 pm |
| REU Recognition Ceremony | Thu., July 31 or Fri., August 1, 2-4 pm, TBC | Curtis Orchard & Pumpkin Patch |
| Move-out Dates | August 2 – 3, 2025 |
Illinois Summer Research Programs Alliance (ISRPA) Events (required attendance)
| Event/Activity | Day/Time | Place |
|---|---|---|
| Ice Cream Social | Mon., June 2 @ 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Turner Hall Atrium |
| Sexual Harassment and Campus Safety | Thu., June 5 @ 3:30 – 4:30 pm | Loomis 222/276 |
| Ethics in Research | Mon., June 9 @ 3:30 – 4:30 pm | ESB 190 |
| Scientific Posters | Mon., June 16 @ 3:30 – 4:30 pm | DCL 1320 |
| Research Presentations | Wed., June 18 @ 3:30 – 4:30 pm | DCL 1320 |
| Scientific Writing | Mon., June 23 @ 3:30 – 4:30 pm | Zoom |
| CV/resume and Applying to Jobs | Thu., June 26 @ 3:30 – 4:30 pm | ESB 190 |
| Imposter Syndrome | Wed., July 2 @ 3:30 – 4:40 pm | Loomis 136 location change to Sindey Lu 1043 |
| LinkeIn/Building Online Presence for Networking/Careers | Thu., July 3 @ 3:30 – 4:40 pm | ANSC 150 |
| Funding Graduate School | Mon., July 7 @ 3:30 – 4:40 pm | ESB 190 |
| Ice Cream Social | July 10 @ 3:30 – 4:30 pm | Siebel Center for Design Center at 1208 S 4th St, Champaign, IL 61820 |
| Applying to Grad School/Grad School Panel | Mon., July 14 @ 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Turner Hall W – 109 |
| Entrepreneurship | Thu., July 17 @ 3:30 – 4:30 pm | Turner Hall W – 109 – Optional |
| Transferring to 4-year Institution | Tue., July 22 @ 3:30 – 4:30 pm | Turner Hall W – 223 – Optional |
| Computer Science “Lunch & Learn” seminars | Every Tuesday from May 27 to July 22 @ noon | Siebel Center for Computer Science room 2405 – optional, but highly recommended |