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Undergraduate Research Fellowships: The Science of Energy Resilience in a Changing Environment
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Background: The Eversource Energy Center at the University of Connecticut is offering an interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program focused on Power Grid Resilience to Severe Storms in a Changing Environment
Program Highlights:
- Work directly with a faculty mentor to develop an independent research project
- Conduct cutting-edge research and present it to the Center community (UConn faculty, staff, and students & Eversource staff)
- Participate in an immersive, collaborative experience with other research fellows, Center faculty, and graduate students
- Receive a stipend of $4,000 and free room and board on the scenic UConn campus
- Travel support up to $600 per person
Timing: 8 week program – May 22 – July 14, 2017
Application Deadline: April 15, 2017
Who?: Open to upper level (rising Junior or Senior) undergraduate students from any College or University
Project Topics include: Click here for more information on each of the topics listed below!
- Using weather data to assess predictive outage uncertainty and accelerate storm restoration (Astitha/Wanik)
- Effects of roadside forest management treatments on tree and forest ecosystem structure and functioning (Fahey/Morzillo)
- Assessing infrastructure and vegetation change using LiDAR (Parent)
- Evaluation of substations vulnerability of flooding in current and climate change Scenarios (Shen/Nikolopoulos)
- Grid resilience assessment using the GoldSim model (Bagtzoglou/W. Zhang)
For more information, please visit the Eversource Energy Center Website: https://www.eversource.uconn.edu/
Or, contact the program director Dr. Marina Astitha: marina.astitha@uconn.edu
Published: March 9, 2017
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