UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences is sponsoring the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program. The goal of SURF is to give students an intensive, ten-week, research experience.
Students immerse themselves in the laboratory and work on individual research projects with UT Southwestern Graduate School faculty members. The research interests of the faculty are diverse. Most areas of modern cancer biology, cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, immunology, microbiology, neuroscience, and pharmacology are represented. In addition to research, SURF provides seminars, a GRE prep course, social events, and an end-of-program poster session. We have increased the number of fellowships for SURF to 65. The website and on-line application for SURF can be found at http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/SURF.
For the fifth year, they are also sponsoring the Quantitative and Physical Science Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (QP-SURF) Program. This program, initially funded by a NIGMS training grant and now funded internally, will accept ten students who are earning their undergraduate degrees in the field of mathematics, computer science, physics, or chemistry. The goal of QP-SURF is to give students an intensive, research experience and demonstrate to students in the physical and quantitative sciences how their knowledge and skill sets are applied in a biomedical research setting. QP-SURF students would carry out their ten-week research project in a biophysics, computational biology, or quantitative/analytical chemistry laboratory.
QP-SURF students also participate in seminars, a GRE prep course, social events, and an end-of-program poster session. The program website and on-line application for QP-SURF can be found at http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/QP-SURF/QP-SURFAPP.
Both summer programs run from June 1st through August 7th, 2009. Participants
will be selected based on their letters of reference, course work, and experience.
The stipend for the ten-week program is either $4,000 or $5,250 depending on whether or not housing is required. The application deadline is February 9th, 2009.
The value of this summer opportunity is great for those interested in careers in research. Previous fellows have been enthusiastic about their experience; most have enrolled in excellent Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. programs.
