NCSSM Durham-Hosted
Summer Research &
Innovation Program
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The deadline to apply for the Summer Research & Innovation Program was Wednesday, November 1, 2022 at 11:59 PM (midnight).
Applications for Summer 2023 are now closed. Information about Summer 2024 coming soon!
About Durham-Hosted SRIP
NCSSM Durham-hosted Summer Research & Innovation Program (SRIP) is open to all Residential and Online juniors to apply in October-November. Students accepted to Durham-hosted SRIP will live on campus to work with NCSSM faculty or with volunteer mentors off-campus for full days over 1-7 weeks of the summer while living at NCSSM at no cost.
Details for Durham-hosted and Morganton-hosted SRIP will be announced via a Zoom webinar to the Class of 2025 on Sunday, Oct. 15 7-8pm, including specific opportunities available for Summer 2024.
Durham Summer Research & Innovation Showcase
The Durham Summer Research & Innovation Program concludes with a presentation opportunity to showcase not only their discoveries from their projects, but also to demonstrate the development and growth that is an integral part of this adventure. The SRIP Showcase compiles all students' submissions of a written abstract and a 3 minute video.
Other communication opportunities may be available/required by SRIP instructors. All SRIP students are also encouraged to present in various competitions/conferences available throughout the academic year (including for example Science and Engineering Fair, State of NC Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium-SNCURCS, and Junior Science and Humanities Symposium-JSHS).
Fun in the Sun: SRIP Activities!
Summer 2023 Programs at NCSSM Durham
Opportunities vary from year to year, Summer 2024 Program offerings coming soon!
Table of Contents
*Denotes opportunities available to online students
*Glaxo Summer Research in Biology (3 weeks)
Available for Durham residential and online students!
(Application is open, but the majority of the participants will be chosen from academic year program, Research in Biology)Students accepted to the program must complete a research proposal and work with Dr. Mallory on that project during the summer. Students prepare for the summer program by doing background research and completing their research proposals in March-June. Guidelines for preparing these materials will be provided. By the end of the summer program, students give an oral presentation of their results and write a draft research paper. Students follow up in the fall by completing their research paper and, if appropriate, presenting their work at a professional conference.
[Coming Soon] Durham SRIP Showcase - Glaxo Summer Research in Biology (2023)
Contact: Dr. Heather Mallory (heather.mallory@ncssm.edu)
Program Dates: June 12 - June 30 (move-in June 11, move-out June 30)
Student Panelist: Zoey Yeboah (yeboah23k@ncssm.edu)
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Drop-in Virtual Interest Meetings: Visit the Opportunity Catalog for the Recorded Interest Meeting if available
*How to do a Startup: An Experience in Entrepreneurship (2 weeks)
Available for Durham residential and online students!
This two-week program offers students the opportunity to learn how to do a startup venture under the direction of seasoned entrepreneurs. Through a series of entrepreneur-led workshops, students gain the practical knowledge and insight needed to start and scale a new venture. From value proposition design to building a business model, students explore the dynamics of the startup process in collaboration with entrepreneurs. Along the way, students develop the entrepreneurial mindset as they design their own nascent startup venture proposal. At its core, this summer program in entrepreneurship affords students a unique, behind-the-scenes experience of what it means to build and grow a startup.
Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Mindset: SRIP Experience in Entrepreneurship (2022)
[Coming Soon] Durham SRIP Showcase - How to do a Startup: An Experience in Entrepreneurship (2023)
Contact: Mr. Chad Keister (chad.keister@ncssm.edu)
Program Dates: June 12 - June 23 (move-in June 11, move-out June 23)
Student Panelist: Aryan Goyal (goyal23a@ncssm.edu)
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Drop-in Virtual Interest Meetings: Visit the Opportunity Catalog for the Recorded Interest Meeting if available
In Person Interest Meetings: Thursday, October 13 and October 20 from 3:05 - 4:00 PM in Hill 19
*Summer Research in Computer Science (3 weeks)
Available for Durham residential and online students!
Students accepted to the program must complete a research proposal and work with Keethan Kleiner at NCSSM. Any subject in Computer Science is acceptable. Students prepare for the summer program by doing background research and completing their research proposals in the spring. Guidelines for preparing these materials will be provided. The summer program includes a session for three weeks during which students work full-time on their projects. Students may work together on research, but each must submit their own application and include the names of each partner in their applications. By the end of the summer program, students give an oral presentation of their research and results.
[Coming Soon] Durham SRIP Showcase - Summer Research in Computer Science (2022)
Contact: Mr. Keethan Kleiner (keethan.kleiner@ncssm.edu)
Program Dates: June 12 - June 30 (move-in June 11, move-out June 30)
Student Panelist: Helen Wu (we23h@ncssm.edu)
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Drop-in Virtual Interest Meetings: Visit the Opportunity Catalog for the Recorded Interest Meeting if available
Summer Research in Computational Science (3 weeks)
Available only for students accepted to Research in Computational Science academic year program!
This program is for students already in the academic year program "Research in Computational Science". Students in this program will continue work begun in the spring semester. Most but not all of the students in this program will travel to local universities; some will work with remote mentors.
[Coming Soon] Durham SRIP Showcase - Summer Research in Computational Science (2023)
Contact: Mr. Robert Gotwals (gotwals@ncssm.edu)
Program Dates: June 12 - June 30 (move-in June 11, move-out June 30)
Student Panelist: Nilay Ghodasara (ghodasara23n@ncssm.edu)
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Drop-in Virtual Interest Meetings: Visit the Opportunity Catalog for the Recorded Interest Meeting if available
*Summer Research in Engineering (2 weeks)
Available for Durham residential and online students!
Students will explore varied research topics in engineering. Students with an interest in biomedical engineering are especially encouraged to apply. Collaborative projects between students and departments are welcomed and encouraged. Examples of prior projects include using artificial intelligence algorithms to detect skin cancer, developing methods to discriminate between recyclables and non-recyclables, and determining the critical flicker fusion rate of the eye in response to different color LEDs. Students prepare for the summer program in the spring by choosing a specialty area and completing a research proposal (due mid March) for their project that includes background, a literature review, and a research design section. The summer program will include a session for two weeks in June during which students work full-time on their projects. Students will also engage with research labs in their area of interest at neighboring university campuses. At the conclusion of the research opportunity, students will be encouraged to communicate their research results both orally and in written format.
Requirements: All students must have taken an Engineering course or J-term (either residential or online). Students with other experience in engineering and computer science and/or an interest in biology and/or medicine will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
[Coming Soon] Durham SRIP Showcase - Summer Research in Engineering (2023)
Contact: Letitia Hubbard (letitia.hubbard@ncssm.edu)
Program Dates: June 12 - June 23 (move-in June 11, move-out June 23)
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Drop-in Virtual Interest Meetings: Visit the Opportunity Catalog for the Recorded Interest Meeting if available
*Summer Research Experience (REX) in Computational Science (3 weeks)
Available for Durham residential and online students!
This three-week session will introduce students to the technologies, techniques, and tools of computational science and how to conduct scientific research using a computational approach. Students will participate in morning and afternoon webinars then complete structured and unstructured labs after each webinar. Participants will be invited and encouraged to complete a small research paper to be delivered before the beginning of the school year.
[Coming Soon] Durham SRIP Showcase - Summer Research Experience (REX) in Computational Science (2023)
Contact: Mr. Robert Gotwals (gotwals@ncssm.edu)
Program Dates: June 12 - June 30 (move-in June 11, move-out June 30)
Student Panelist: Nilay Ghodasara (ghodasara23n@ncssm.edu)
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Drop-in Virtual Interest Meetings: Visit the Opportunity Catalog for the Recorded Interest Meeting if available
*Summer Research in the Humanities (3 weeks)
Available for Durham residential and online students!
The goal of Summer Research is to introduce students to work inside and outside of archives and other sites of historical knowledge, allowing them to acquire a stronger and more sophisticated sense not only of textual but of material and cultural objects and artefacts. This course is inseparably critical and creative: critical, for it teaches students to interrogate the very notion of an archive, and creative, for the interrogation will lead to their own production of knowledge in the form of a research proposal. In the last ten years or so, the institutional limitations of archives have been valuably identified; however, the recognition that sites of knowledge are constructed does not imply the determination of what can be known. For if it is the work of archivists to identify, catalog and systematize, and protect the objects in their collection, it is not their job to study exhaustively all the contents of their collection. They might emphasize some objects at the expense of others, but they do not prevent the discovery of new meanings in the available items. There is always the possibility for surprise, even delight (or horror) within the site in which documents and other objects are stored.
The great opportunity, at once theoretical and practical, of the active investigation of the collections at UNC and Duke is to work with documents whose significance is not altogether clear as well as those whose significance seems peculiarly determined—so clear, in other words, that other meanings are obscured or occluded. Our focus upon archival is, however, necessarily grounded in the historical worlds of the local. In other words, the ground underneath the student’s feet, its deep histories and disruptions, will become the object of our study. What is the relation between local knowledge and global experience? How do economic and social transformations shape the more intimate, everyday forms of cultural practice and political desire in places seemingly far removed from such forces?
Trips to the North Carolina Museums of Art, Natural History, and Science, as well as more informal excursions to historical sites such as Stagville Plantation, Hayti, and to renovated and ruined factories in and around Durham, will offer further practice in the difficult pleasures of reading diverse objects (including architecture) in their relation to built space. Evenings will be spent reading, in preparation for the day’s adventures. What will advene, however, cannot be foretold.
Critical independence and the art of questioning in NCSSM’s Summer Research in Humanities (2020)
Inspiring a Love of Learning and Concept of Self: NCSSM’s Summer Research in Humanities (2022)
[Coming Soon] Durham SRIP Showcase - Research in the Humanities (2023)
Contact(s): Dr. David Cantrell (cantrell@ncssm.edu), Dr. Tatiana McInnis (tatiana.mcinnis@ncssm.edu)
Program Dates: June 12 - June 30 (move-in June 11, move-out June 30)
Student Panelist: Veronica Quiett (quiett23v@ncssm.edu)
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Drop-in Virtual Interest Meetings: Visit the Opportunity Catalog for the Recorded Interest Meeting if available
In Person Interest Meetings: Thursday, October 13 at 4:00 PM and Thursday, October 20 at 4:00 PM in Beall 1
*Summer Research in Mathematics (3 weeks)
Available for Durham residential and online students!
This summer program is a three-week on-campus research program in mathematics. Students will form small groups to investigate a mathematical problem and communicate their findings to others. Daily activities will include whole group meetings, small group meetings, and individual work time. Students will also communicate their findings with the whole group on the last day of the program.
Summer Research in Mathematics Enables Students to See a New Side of Math (2022)
[Coming Soon] Durham SRIP Showcase - Summer Research in Mathematics (2023)
Contact: Dr. Philip Benge (philip.benge@ncssm.edu)
Program Dates: June 12 - June 30 (move-in June 11, move-out June 30)
Student Panelist: Arya Gupta (gupta23arya@ncssm.edu)
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Drop-in Virtual Interest Meetings: Visit the Opportunity Catalog for the Recorded Interest Meeting if available
*Summer Mentorship (5 weeks)
Available for Durham & Morganton residential and online students!
NCSSM Durham-hosted student experiences are primarily within academic research with partners at Duke University, NC Central University, NC State University, and UNC-Chapel Hill and the Mentorship course curriculum is extensively research-focused. The range of topics and fields of interest widely vary within research (STEM, social sciences and humanities). Each year a limited number of mentors outside of academia are available such as with RTI International, a local architecture firm, or a local start-up company.
NCSSM Students Gain Full-Time, Professional Research Experience During Summer Mentorship (2022)
[Coming Soon] Durham SRIP Showcase - Summer Mentorship (2023)
Contact: Dr. Josh Fuchs (josh.fuchs@ncssm.edu), Dr. Letitia Hubbard (letitia.hubbard@ncssm.edu), Dr. Sarah Shoemaker (shoemaker@ncssm.edu)
Program Dates: June 12 - July 21 (with a break from July 3-7)
Student Panelist: Niyathi Gorantla (M1, gorantla23n@ncssm.edu), Toby Aniekwensi (M3, aniekwensi23t@ncssm.edu)
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Drop-in Virtual Interest Meetings: Visit the Opportunity Catalog for the Recorded Interest Meeting if available
In Person Interest Meetings: Thursday, October 13 at 4:00 PM and Thursday, October 20 at 4:00 PM in Beall 1
Summer Research in Physical Sciences: Chemistry (3 weeks)
Available for Durham residential students!
(Application is open, but the majority of the participants will be chosen from academic year program, Research in Chemistry)Students accepted to the program must complete a research proposal and work with Dr. Anglin at NCSSM. Students prepare for the summer program by doing background research and completing their research proposals in March-June. Guidelines for preparing these materials will be provided. The summer program includes 3 weeks in June during which students work full-time on their projects. By the end of the summer program, students give an oral presentation of their results and write a draft research paper. Students follow up in the fall by completing their research paper and, if appropriate, presenting their work at a professional conference.
[Coming Soon] Durham SRIP Showcase - Summer Research in Physical Sciences: Chemistry (2023)
Contact: Dr. Tim Anglin (tim.anglin@ncssm.edu)
Program Dates: June 12 - June 30 (move-in June 11, move-out June 30)
Student Panelist: Grace Otos (otos23g@ncssm.edu)
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Drop-in Virtual Interest Meetings: Visit the Opportunity Catalog for the Recorded Interest Meeting if available
Summer Research in Physical Science: Physics (3 weeks)
Available for Durham residential students!
(Application is open, but the majority of the participants will be chosen from academic year program, Research in Physics)Students accepted to the program must complete a research proposal and work with Dr. Falvo on that project during the summer. Students prepare for the summer program by doing background research and completing their research proposals in March-June. Guidelines for preparing these materials will be provided. By the end of the summer program, students give an oral presentation of their results and write a draft research paper. Students follow up in the fall by completing their research paper and, if appropriate, presenting their work at a professional conference.
[Coming Soon] Durham SRIP Showcase - Summer Research in Physical Science: Physics (2023)
Contact: Dr. Mike Falvo (michael.falvo@ncssm.edu)
Program Dates: June 12 - June 30 (move-in June 11, move-out June 30)
Student Panelist: Andrew Epley (epley23a@ncssm.edu)
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Drop-in Virtual Interest Meetings: Visit the Opportunity Catalog for the Recorded Interest Meeting if available