JPL Mentors | Co-Mentors | Mentoring
Tips | Partnership Statement
The Student-Faculty Programs Office (SFP) coordinates an array
of programs to provide outstanding undergraduate research opportunities to
students while also providing them with complementary support activities
to enhance their summer experiences.
SFP directly coordinates the following programs:
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF)
- MURF Undergraduate Research Fellowships (MURF)
- Axline Scholars
- HHMI Abroad
- HHMI EXROP
- Caltech-NUS Exchange
- Caltech-HKU Exchange
- Caltech-IIT Kanpur Exchange
SFPO also partners with the following allied programs to provide
administrative support to the program managers and to bring the students
in these programs into a unified community of scholars.
- Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
- Caltech-Cambridge Exchange (CamSURF)
- NASA Space Grant
- NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP)
- NASA Planetary Geology and Geophysics Research Program (PGGURP)
Students in all programs are afforded the same opportunities
and have the same responsibilities.
- Students submit either a research proposal or a project
plan written in collaboration with the mentor
- Programs are of 10-week duration
- Students receive $500/week for the ten-week program
- At the conclusion of the programs, students give oral presentations
and submit technical papers
- Students may attend seminars, workshops, and social activities
coordinated by SFP
- Students may live in campus housing
SFP provides the following administrative functions:
- Processing of applications and reviews for programs directly
coordinated by SFP
- Processing fellowship payments for students receiving funds
through Caltech
- Receipt and processing of progress reports, abstracts, and
final reports
- Coordination of oral presentations during several day or
half-day symposia
- Summer programming including arrangement of research seminars
on campus and at JPL, Whitney Workshops on professional development, field
trips, and social events
- Coordination with campus organizations, including Security,
Safety, Housing, Alumni Association, and Human Resources
