Students and post-docs are employed by the University of Colorado or the Colorado School of Mines and normally carry out research at the NIST Boulder Laboratories. Students are usually hired just before the spring, fall , or summer terms, and may be employed for one or more terms. Post-docs may begin any time during the year. Applications are accepted throughout the year. NIST pays in-state tuition for PREP undergraduate students during the fall and spring semesters and an hourly wage.
Graduate students receive in-state tuition and a stipend.
Postdocs receive a stipend. You may also go to the PREP Program's home page or contact group staff directly. These awards provide a select group of scientists and engineers an opportunity for research in many of the areas that are of deep concern to the scientific and technological community of the nation. NIST, with direct responsibilites for the nation's measurement network, involves its laboratories in the most modern developments in the physical, engineering, and mathematical sciences and the technological development that proceed from them. The Research Council, through its Associateship Programs office, conducts an annual national competition to recommend and make awards to outstanding scientists and engineers at the postdoctoral level for tenure as guest researchers at participating laboratories.