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Current Students
HHMI Summer Research Opportunities
Thanks to a 2008 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Undergraduate Science Education Program award, The College of Wooster is able to offer two summer research programs for currently enrolled Wooster students. There are three different types of summer research.
The HHMI Summer Research Scholars will be hired full time for 8 weeks. The students will be required to attend weekly meetings.
HHMI Summer Research Scholar Interdisciplinary Team
The HHMI-supported summer research program seeks to build on its previous successes by encouraging research projects with an interdisciplinary focus. Interdisciplinary projects will involve two or more faculty researchers working with a small group of students. These positions will be open to currently enrolled first, second or third year students who will be enrolled next academic year (2013-14) at The College of Wooster as sophomores, juniors or seniors.
HHMI Summer Research Scholar
The previously funded HHMI SRS program, including student research opportunities at the Cleveland Clinic Wooster and OARDC, continues. These positions will be open to currently enrolled first, second or third year students who will be enrolled next academic year (2013-14) at The College of Wooster as sophomores, juniors or seniors.
Application and Review Process
Openings for summer will be posted in early February, and the application deadline will be 8 a.m. February 15th. The applications will be forwarded to the appropriate faculty members for their decision. Some faculty members may ask for students to come in for an interview. Students should hear back about their application by Spring Break. Students will need to accept or decline the position by April 1, 2013. For more information, contact Professor Dean Fraga, HHMI Program Director.
Off-Campus Research Opportunities
- TEC Bio REU (Pittsburgh, PA)
- NSF REU: Summer Program in the Biochemical Sciences (Lexington, KY)
- Eli Lilly and Company (Indianapolis)
- "Sensing & Signaling" REU (Knoxville, TN)
- Research Experiences at Stone Lab (Lake Erie)
- Amgen Scholars, various locations
- SURP at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Washington)
- Amgen Scholars at Caltech
- MURF Undergraduate Research Fellowship at Caltech
- Amgen Scholars at MIT (Boston)
- Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship Program (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
- Summa Health Systems (Akron, OH)
- Many openings in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- “Sensing and Signaling” Reseach Experience for Undergrads (Knoxville, TN)
- Oak Ridge National Labratory
- Department of Homeland Security Education Programs
- Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship
- Undergraduate Summer Research Experiences in Plant Genomics (Michigan State University)
- Research Internships in Science and Engineering (Germany)
- Summer in Biomedical Science (SIBS) Undergraduate Research Program (Birmingham, Alabama)
- Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas)
- BROAD Institute of MIT and Harvard
- California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, Washington)
- Janelia Farm Research Campus
- Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (New York, NY)
- International Undergraduate Studentship Programme (Norwich, UK)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- New York University School of Medicine (New York, New York)
- Rockefeller University (New York, New York)
- Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
- Univeristy of Colorado at Boulder (Boulder, CO)
- University of Maryland Baltimore County
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, Texas)
- The Quantitative and Physical Science Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (QP-SURF) program at UT Southwestern
- University of Wisconsin - Madison (Madison, Wisconsin)
- Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri)
- Yale University School of Medicine (New Haven, CT)
- HHMI funds graduate work at many other institutions - learn more!