UConn’s Office of Undergraduate Research each year provides Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) awards to support full-time undergraduate students in summer research or creative projects – an initiative that continues this year, despite the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.
SURF awards are available to students in all majors at all UConn campuses. A faculty committee representing various schools and colleges reviews the students’ project proposals, and SURF award recipients are chosen through a competitive process. Each SURF award winner is supervised by a UConn faculty member.
This summer, UConn Today will once again take a look at various 2020 SURF scholars and their work.
Name: Nicole Khusid
Hometown: Newtown, Pa.
Year: Rising Senior
Major: Physics and computer science
Summer research project: Khusid is doing research on multimessenger gravitational wave signals from strongly-lensed supermassive black hole binaries with faculty mentor Chiara Mingarelli, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics.
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