Participants provide their own transportation and lunch. No previous physics or math required. No college credit, but the program provides exposure to the college environment, including sessions with current undergraduates and an admissions counselor. Applications are due by March 30, 1999. The program includes visits to various research labs and discussions with women scientists.
Participants also attend seminars on a variety of research topics.
Some of the seminars are held jointly with participants in other summer research programs on campus. The program has been running for five years. In summers of 1994 and 1995, it was primarily funded by the DOE-PREP program. In summers of 1996 and 1997 it was primarily funded by the NSF-Young Scholars program. Since 1998 it has been funded by the Univesity of Rochester and the CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.