Funded by an NSF CAREER grant, undergraduates at PROMPT Collaboration institutions other than UNC-Chapel Hill are invited to apply for a PROMPT Summer Fellowship. Two PROMPT Fellows will be selected to work with Prof. Dan Reichart's gamma-ray burst group at UNC-Chapel Hill for 12 weeks each summer. This group is building the six 16-inch diameter PROMPT telescopes in Chile, and has access to 24-inch Morehead in Chapel Hill, 4.1-meter SOAR in Chile, 9.2-meter (effective diameter) SALT in South Africa, and leads the Follow-Up Network for Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Skynet Robotic Telescope Network. For more information, click here.

Applications are due on April 30th and participants will be selected and notified on May 1st. To apply, please have two letters of recommendation emailed to

reichart@physics.unc.edu

and email me the following information:

Name:

Email address(es):

College or university:

Major or anticipated major:

Freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior:

Grade point average:

List any astronomy or astronomy-related courses that you have taken or are currently taking:

Describe any research experience and/or computer programming skills that you have:

Describe any experience that you have with IRAF or similar astronomical image reduction and analysis software:

Describe why you want to participate in this program:

Describe how your experience in this program will benefit your home institution once you return: