<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Jennifer Susan DiMase <<a href="mailto:jdimase@MIT.EDU">jdimase@MIT.EDU</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">February 24, 2011 11:45:03 AM EST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>FW: Support Available for Energy UROPs for Summer 2011</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "> </span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Dear Students interested in energy-related UROPs,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) will support several full-time energy UROPs during Summer 2011. Undergraduate research topics may address any aspect of energy systems and related environmental challenges, such as energy sources and supply (solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, fossil fuel, etc); conversion, storage and distribution; technology and use (transportation, buildings, etc); policy; efficiency and demand-side management; and campus energy management. <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b>Applications for summer 2011 Energy UROPs should include a brief proposal developed with a faculty mentor who will supervise your summer work.<o:p></o:p></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><o:p> </o:p></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b>If interested, and if you have a faculty advisor in mind</b>, please work together to develop a one to three page proposal which describes the context and scope of project, a tentative work plan, your role in the UROP, and what you hope to get out of the experience, both academically and personally.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b>If you do not have a faculty advisor in mind</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>but would like to find a project, please see<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://web.mit.edu/mitei/education/urop.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://web.mit.edu/mitei/education/urop.html</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for more information.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Please submit your proposal to MITEI Student Activities Coordinator Jennifer DiMase (<a href="mailto:jdimase@mit.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">jdimase@mit.edu</a>)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>no later than<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: red; ">12 noon on Friday, March 11</span>. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>You may also wish to submit<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>an online UROP application to be considered for Direct Funding through the UROP office, should your project not be among those funded by MITEI. Ideally, MITEI UROP funding decisions will be made by April 14<sup>th</sup>, which is the UROP office summer direct funding deadline.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">MITEI UROP funding is provided by private donors and by members of the MIT Energy Initiative, including Founding Member BP and individual Affiliate Members with a particular interest in supporting undergraduate research.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mit.edu/mitei/docs/education/urop/project-descriptions-2010.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Project descriptions</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of the 23 undergraduate researchers who worked on projects during summer 2010 can be viewed online.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Best,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Jennifer DiMase<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="SV" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: navy; ">____________________________________</span><span lang="SV" style="color: navy; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></span><span lang="SV" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: navy; ">Jennifer DiMase</span><span lang="SV" style="color: navy; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: navy; ">Student Activities Coordinator<br>MIT Energy Initiative<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>Building E19-370D, 400 Main St<br>Cambridge, MA 02139<br>617-452-3199<br><a href="mailto:jdimase@mit.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">jdimase@mit.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>