The NIST Summer Undergraduate Fellowship Program Goes Virtual

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The NIST Summer Undergraduate Fellowship Program Goes Virtual

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) designed the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program to inspire undergraduate students to pursue careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) through a unique research experience that supports our mission. Since 1993, the SURF program has hosted more than 3,000 undergraduate students from across the nation at NIST’s laboratories in Boulder, Colorado; Gaithersburg, Maryland; and Charleston, South Carolina. In an effort to prioritize the health of our staff and our future student fellows, SURF is going virtual for the first time.

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