Application Deadline: January 24, 2022
Program Dates*: June 20, 2022 – August 12, 2022
The Quantitative Biology Undergraduate Summer Research Program offers summer research fellowships to undergraduates. This program allows undergraduate students majoring in biology, engineering, mathematics, statistics, or physics to participate in hands-on laboratory or computational research that applies mathematical concepts and methodology to understanding mechanisms in biology. If selected, leadership will match you with a faculty mentor.
Participants will be encouraged to attend activities such as, faculty research presentations; day trip to a local museum or Argonne National Laboratory; a presentation on applying to graduate school; and other cohort outings.
This program is supported by the NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology and the Northwestern Research Training Grant in Quantitative Biological Modeling.
Stipend: Participants in the program receive a taxable stipend of approximately $4,500.
Eligibility: To be considered for this program, applicants must currently be freshmen, sophomores, or juniors with demonstrated interests in the mathematical sciences and/or biology.
Expectations
- Participants are expected to spend 100% of their summer break working in a participating faculty member’s research group for 8-weeks. Dates can be flexible to accommodate your university/college’s spring term/quarter-end date and fall term/quarter start date.
- Participants must agree not to take on any other paid work or research grants for any part of the eight-week period, and must not be enrolled in courses for any part of that period.
- Participants must give a 15-minute presentation with slides at the end of the program to the Center directors, investigators, scholars and personnel.
Application Materials: To apply, students are required to submit the following materials via email to Tiffany Leighton Ozmina, tiffany.ozmina@northwestern.edu
- A completed Application Form
- Essay Questions (included in the application form)
- Your college/university transcripts (unofficial transcripts are accepted)
- Resume
- A Letter of Recommendation from a faculty instructor/advisor/mentor
Your Letter of Recommendation should be emailed directly from your recommender to the Center Administrator, Tiffany Leighton Ozmina at tiffany.ozmina@northwestern.edu .
