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Online REU Orientation Guide

UChicago Physics, MRSEC, CFCP, and their REU Programs

• Summer REU announcements: Physics, MRSEC, CFCP
• Home pages: Physics, MRSEC, CFCP
• REU Program contacts:
  Physics, KPTC 201
  Dr. Joseph O'Gallagher, j-ogallagher@uchicago.edu, 773-702-7757
  Nobuko McNeill, n-mcneill@uchicago.edu, 773-702-7007
  Pat Plitt, p-plitt@uchicago.edu, 773-702-7006
  MRSEC
  Prof. Woowon Kang, w-kang@uchicago.edu, 773-702-5244, RI L-107
  Brenda Thomas, bthomas@uchicago.edu, 773-702-7156, RI 225
  CFCP
  Randall Landsberg, randy@oddjob.uchicago.edu, 773-702-7783, AAC 126
• Travel: The University's designated travel agency
• Max Palevsky Residential Commons, 1101 East 56th Street
  REU Residential Coordinator: to be announced, uchicago.edu
  Dorm phone service
  Current rates are $0.04/minute for local calls and $0.10/minute for domestic long-distance calls.(3/03)
• Omega Airport Shuttle
  Daily hourly service between campus & ORD; $22 ORD-Maclean.
• Search our information space
• Society of Physics Students - UChicago, national
• Teaching awards to Physics faculty

Campus General

• www.uchicago.edu website guide
• The College Student home page, Campus Life, Multicultural Life
• UChicago home and student pages
• Chicago Life: A User's Guide for Students: Academic Life, Student Life
• Banking on/near campus
  • ATMs: Reynolds Club basement, 5706 South University Avenue; others
  • Hyde Park Bank branch, 1311 East 57th Street
  • Citibank branch, 5812 South Ellis Avenue (in SBRI)
• Bookstores: UChicago, Seminary Co-op, others
• Campus buses; announcements/schedules/maps
• Campus News
• Campus Policies on Drugs & Alcohol
• "Common Sense: Crime Prevention & Security"
• Computer Clusters
• Directories
• Food service in Hutchinson Commons
• Other places on-campus for meals & snacks
  Some may have reduced hours or be closed in summer.
• Hyde Park eateries
• Library: introduction, physics info, women & minorities in science
• Lost & Found: KPTC & campus general
• Maps: campus-wide & KPTC subsection
• Movies on campus: Doc Films
• Photo tour of our campus: western section for KPTC, JFI, EFI
• Search our information space

Careers

• AIP Career Services
• AIP/Sloan Career Cornerstone
• NAS Career Planning Center for Beginning Scientists and Engineers
• Association of Women in Science: National, Chicago Area Chapter
• APS Committee on Minorities (COM)
• APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics (CSWP)
• Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics (CWP)
• NSF Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities
  in Science, Engineering, and Technology Development (CAWMSET)
• Science's Next Wave

Chicago

• "ChicagoGuide" & movie
• Chicago Life: A User's Guide for Students: City Life, Real Life
• Post Office, 956 East 58th Street (inside Ingleside Hall)
• Public transportation
• Overview (N.B.: #173 UC-Lakeview Express doesn't run during the summer.)
• Chicago Transit Authority (CTA); from downtown; Transit Card;
  CTA brochures in PDF format:
  Fares brochure
  Sightseeing brochure (downtown/near north attractions)
  New Rider's brochure
• Metra Electric Line; from downtown
• City of Chicago festivals & events
• Grant Park Music Festival
• Weather; lakefront conditions; forecast

Miscellaneous

• AIP Student Services
• Educational Testing Service Network (ETS)
• NAS brochure, "The Physics of Materials: How Science Improves Our Lives"
• Stipend Tax Information: "Scholarships and Fellowships" (IRS Publication 520)

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