Thank you for serving as a reference for the 2023 Station1 Frontiers Fellowship!

The Station1 Frontiers Fellowship (SFF) is a prestigious, fully-funded ten-week summer experience for undergraduate students focused on socially-directed science and technology education, research, and innovation. Socially-directed science and technology is a new model of learning and research which aims to interrogate, understand, and shape technologically-driven societal impact towards more equitable and sustainable outcomes. A unique internationally-recognized model of higher education, the SFF integrates three programmatic components:

A research internship in emerging areas of science and technology with leading established and startup partner companies, research institutes, and nonprofit organizations. Station1 coordinates an exceptional portfolio of research projects in all science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) majors, including, for example, areas such as biotechnology and health technologies (e.g. tissue engineering, marine genomics, synthetic biology, diagnostics, circular biomaterials), civic technologies, socially-directed computation - artificial intelligence / machine learning, assistive technologies, water technologies, environmental and climate technologies, agricultural technologies, and sustainable materials and manufacturing.
A cross-disciplinary shared curriculum focused on socially-directed science and technology taught by world-class scientists, engineers, and researchers is applied to the internship research projects which includes topics such as sociotechnical systems, social innovation, environmental and social in/justice and equity-based design, technological landscapes across scale, historical methods, thinking with long time and the Anthropocene, social and global challenges, sustainability, resilience, and remediation, circular economy and design, community-based participatory research in biotechnology and public health, art, artisanship, and science: representations, models, and simulations, computation in social context, complexity, networks, ecosystems, and theories of change, and technosocial possibilities: histories of the future.
Personal and professional advancement activities including inclusive leadership and collaboration, scientific and technical communication, networking, and more.

SFF 2023 will be in a fully virtual format and students will participate remotely in all program activities from their city of choice. Detailed information about the program can be found at https://www.station1.org/sff. Questions, inquiries, and any technical issues completing the survey may be directed to sff@station1.org

Station1 strongly encourages students who have not had the opportunity to participate in a previous research, internship, or significant project-based experience to apply. African American, Hispanic, Native American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander, first-generation students, students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, students enrolled at minority-serving institutions, teaching institutions, and community colleges are strongly encouraged to apply.

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