Dear Colleagues,

We have an exciting update about the Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) 2024! We now have $3,000 stipends available to SURP faculty!! 13 stipends are available. We will evaluate applications to determine who will receive the stipends. Consider applying for a SURP student this summer to put yourself in the running for a stipend!

SUNY Poly will once again offer a SURP program this summer, and it's scheduled to run for ten weeks from Tuesday, May 28 – Friday, August 2, 2024. The program will culminate with a poster session tentatively scheduled for Friday, August 2.

Students and faculty mentors can participate in different ways, as outlined below:  
•  SURP-Funded: Students would be paid to do research at minimum wage ($15/hr) for 40-hrs/week. Funds are limited; therefore, faculty will need to apply for these positions. Projects will be selected for funding by the SURP Team and the SUNY Poly Institute (SPI) deans based on: Student interest, research description, and mentoring plans. Although the SURP team will not advertise the positions outside of SPI, it is possible for non-SPI students to be funded by this program.
•  Faculty-Grant Funded SURP: Students are paid from faculty grants. Not counting indirect costs, the cost to faculty would be approximately $6360 for in-state SPI students.
• Research for Credit: Students can conduct summer research for credit with the faculty mentor listed as the instructor. If a student is not a SUNY Poly student, they would take the credits on a non-matriculated basis.
• Industry partners: We work with industrial partners every year. We have a question on the form that asks about potential industrial partners or community groups that you think may want to sponsor (or co-sponsor) your SURP project. This helps us understand which companies/groups we should reach out to and promote your work. 

Each professor can propose as many projects as they wish. Please fill out this attached SURP Faculty Mentor Application for each of your projects and submit by 5 p.m. Monday, February 5.

The project descriptions will aid the 2024 SURP committee to align the student’s and prospective advisor’s research interests in the initial stages of the matching process. 

If you have any questions, please direct them to Professors Asif Ahmed (ahmeda3@sunypoly.edu) or Becky Weldon (weldonr@sunypoly.edu).

Sincerely,
2024 SURP Team

Asif Ahmed
Michael Badolato
Michael Carpenter
Andrea LaGatta
Rebecca Weldon
Wayne Westervelt