RET/REU for Native Americans

Program Type: For Native American high school and college students, their mentors, and teachers.

The University of Washington’s (UW) Genetically Engineered Materials Science and Engineering Center (GEMSEC) offers a unique combined Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) and Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) to Native Americans. We seek as collaborators small faculty-student teams from a Pacific Northwest Tribal Colleges. GEMSEC provides extended, in-depth molecular biomimetics and bionanotechnology research experiences for several Tribal College faculty members working with two or three undergraduate students each. In addition to year-around tailored programs, a key component is an extended (up to 10-week-long) summer immersion in cutting edge science for the faculty-student team in GEMSEC laboratories, providing an exceptional learning opportunity in bionanotechnology, a critical area of science, technology, & engineering.