The Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania announced last month that Alison Buttenheim and Mark Devlin are the inaugural recipients of the Summer Undergraduate Research Group Grant (SURGG). SURGG will provide grants of as much as $27,500, including $10,000 for research expenses, with the rest to cover stipends for teams of as many as five undergraduates.

Dr. Buttenheim is an assistant professor of nursing and health policy in Penn’s School of Nursing. She will lead undergraduates in a study examining the role of financial incentives in smoking cessation programs during pregnancy.

Dr. Devlin is the Reese W. Flower Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics in Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences. He will direct undergraduates in ongoing work on the Experimental Cosmology Group’s Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST), scheduled to launch above Antarctica this December.