The Erich Vogt First Year Student Research Experience Endowment

The First Year Student Research Experience (FYSRE) awards will offer budding academic stars in the First Year Physics courses an opportunity for paid work experience in Physics or Astronomy research at UBC or TRIUMF. For over thirty years Erich Vogt taught bright and eager First Year Physics students who were not afforded access to federal funding to support summer research because NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) subsidies are available only to second and higher year students. The FYSRE awards will change that.

First Year students will apply to a FYSRE selection committee for subsidized summer research positions analogous to the NSERC USRA program: if approved, the student's summer salary will be shared between the supervisor and the FYSRE grant. The subsidy will probably be similar to that provided for the NSERC USRA awards.

FYSRE recipients will be asked to evaluate their Experience at the end of the summer and again when they graduate from UBC, to track the effectiveness of this program.

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