Science Center Summer Research Program for Wellesley Students

About this Web Application

This web application was written during the spring of 2008 by three students in CS304 as part of a course project. If you run into any technical difficulties, or have any questions, comments or suggestions, please email us at scrgrant@cs.wellesley.edu. (Notice that our email address is on the CS server; it's not a FirstClass email address.)

This web application supports both students who are applying for funding and faculty who are supervising projects, writing letters of recommendation, or reading applications. Just scroll down to the relevant section.

Deadlines

• Deadline for students submitting applications is midnight on Wednesday, February 18.
• Deadline for faculty submitting letters of recommendation is midnight on Friday, February 20.

Faculty Access

Recommenders, Supervisors, and Readers log in.

If you don't already have an account, you should register for an account.

Note that, for security reasons, the application doesn't take your word for it that you are a faculty member; an administrator needs to "approve" your account and grant you access as a recommender, a supervisor, or an application reader, or some combination of those privileges.

Also, you can't upload a letter of recommendation for a student until she has applied, because the application creates a folder that will hold your letter.

When a student has submitted her application listing you as a recommender, you will get an email asking you to submit a letter on her behalf.

If this process seems to have gone wrong, please email scrgrant@cs.wellesley.edu, and we'll look into it.

Second Note: if a student has listed you on her application, an account will have been created for you with a random password. You can ask an administrator to send you that password by emailing scrgrant@cs.wellesley.edu.

Student Applications

This form is just for applications for on-campus research. If you're applying for funding for off-campus research, there is a different procedure. Go back to Science Center – for Students

An on-campus application must include the following: (This information is copied from Science Center – for Students; in the event of any discrepancy, that page is authoritative.

• Completed on-campus application form
• Personal statement, as PDF or MS Word file (type DOC, not DOCX).
• Two letters of recommendation. The form will ask you for the name and email address of two recommenders. You will have an opportunity on the form to waive your access to these letters.
• Recommendations are preferably written by Wellesley College science faculty.
• Resume (one page), as PDF or MS Word file (type DOC, not DOCX).
• Chemistry and Physics, Biological Sciences, Neuroscience, and Computer Science project descriptions are available. Students desiring to work on Astronomy, Geosciences, Mathematics or Psychology projects should contact faculty with whom they would like to work to discuss potential projects.
• List three projects, in order of preference and describe how these projects fit in with your experience and goals. If you want additional information on any project, faculty members will be happy to discuss them with you. These discussions do not represent a commitment to accepting you into their laboratories for the summer. It is always to the applicant's advantage, however, to have spoken to the prospective supervisor before applying.
• A copy of your downloaded transcript (a PDF file, most likely)
• You should be prepared to specify the funding sources that you are eligible for. These sources are listed on the Science Center – for Students page. (You might keep that page open in another window.)

You should have all the materials listed above ready before filling out the form, because in the current implementation, this application has to be done in one sitting. (We hope to allow editing of applications next year.)

Note also that the application process is in several steps.

1. First, you register for an account, using your Wellesley email address as your username. You will also supply a password. This should probably not be the same as your FirstClass password or any other password you use.

   register for an account

2. Later, you login using your username and password.

   login to your account

   You then fill out the form and submit it. The form is actually in several parts:

   1. The first page is a lot of info, including address, Banner id, project preferences, and so forth.
   2. The second page allows you to review the info from the first page, then allows you to upload files for résumé, personal statement, and transcript. These files should be either MS WORD (.DOC) or PDF. The form also includes an honor code statement.
   3. Submitting that second form completes your application.