Running a medium sized REU summer site with 10-17 students every summer is both enjoyable and time consuming. The key to maintaining program quality with minimum effort is to delegate tasks, organize contacts and tap into university and department resources. The most time consuming elements to manage are recruitment, and matching student fellows to faculty hosts, setting up trips to local industry sites, and scheduling social and educational activities for the summer. This presentation will summarize tips from my experiences over the past nine years of running a REU program at a public research university.

Lessons from running a chemistry REU site for nine years

251st National Meeting (2016)

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