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Faculty
and Student Teams Program
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About FaST
The Faculty and Student Teams (FaST) Program is a cooperative effort
between the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science and the National
Science Foundation (NSF). Faculty from colleges and universities with
limited research facilities and those institutions serving populations,
women, and minorities underrepresented in the fields of science, engineering,
and technology are encouraged to apply for the FaST program. The FaST
program will support a team comprised of one faculty member and 2 – 3
undergraduate students. The program provides hands-on research opportunities in
DOE national laboratories during the summer. The faculty member identifies
a mutually beneficial research area amenable to collaboration by the
faculty member and the laboratory scientist. Potential areas of collaboration
are based upon the Project Descriptions described at the specific DOE Office
of Science laboratory. Faculty and student team members recruited by
the faculty member should apply online. If the application is accepted,
your institution may be responsible for requesting supplemental funding
from NSF to support the team's participation.
Among the many favorable attributes of FaST are:
- An opportunity to contribute to and be on the ground floor of new
ideas and exciting projects leading to publications for faculty and
graduate school opportunities for students
- A highly interactive and stimulating immersion experience in the
research environment
- Sustainable professional relationships between faculty and Laboratory
investigators
- A supportive approach that reinforces learning through research
participation
- Workshops and training to minimize the "culture shock" of
entering and working in a National Laboratory setting
- Opportunities to reform undergraduate education
- Internet-based technologies to support distance education and research
collaboration
- An opportunity to add to the diversity of the science and engineering
workforce at the DOE National Laboratories
- An opportunity for DOE laboratory investigators to have a dedicated
team supported and working to advance their research and development
objectives
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