Application window for summer 2025 is now CLOSED--stay tuned for 2026
Tentative Schedule
2025 Program Year
December 1, 2024 - March 15, 2025
Application open. The Project Leadership Team will extend offers to exceptionally qualified candidates with complete application packages on a rolling basis.
Application closes March 15, 2025. We will accept late applications only if we have available space.
February 1 - April 1, 2025
Notification of acceptance due to Program Coordinator.
May 27 - May 30, 2025
Synchronous/asynchronous (online) onboarding with Project Leadership Team.
May 30 - June 1
Travel to Alma, Michigan, and move into campus housing.
June 2 - August 1
June 2: RESS program starts, including weekly professional development
June 2 - 6: Meet advisory board. Participate in pre-program evaluation (in-person).
August 1: Symposium and Roundtable presentations
August 1 - 3
Move out of campus housing
August 2025
Participate in post-program evaluation (online, synchronous)
Fall 2025 - Winter 2026
Meet monthly (online, synchronous) to continue developing lesson and/or unit plans, conference presentation proposals, and/or research paper submissions, as needed. (Stipend available to support this after-summer work.)
Attend (and hopefully present your work at) a scientific conference with your faculty mentor and peer RESS participant(s).