Applications for NSURP 2024 are now closed. Thank you to all who applied!
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The National Summer Undergraduate Research Project (NSURP) is a community-driven initiative that creates rewarding, remote summer research experiences for underrepresented minoritized (URM) undergraduate students in Microbiology, Immunology, Cancer Biology, and Biomedical Engineering.
The National Summer Undergraduate Research Project (NSURP) is a virtual research program for that matches URM undergraduate students from across the U.S. to laboratory mentors around the world to conduct for an eight week, full time, research experience. All NSURP programming (research, seminars, meetings, etc.) takes place remotely. NSURP is a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The National Summer Undergraduate Research Project (NSURP) is designed to:
- Match URM undergraduate students on a nationwide-level to Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology laboratory mentors who can provide a remote summer research project experience.
- Provide a science and professional development seminar series for participants that is authentic to the experiences of URM students in science.
- Provide a platform for participating students to present their research online in an official capacity.
NSURP Program Details
- What: A NSF REU that connects underrepresented minoritized (URM) undergraduate students in STEM with mentors (PIs, or their designated lab members) in the Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology Sciences. Mentors will supervise students in a remote-work summer research project. Students in the program will be expected to attend the seminar speakers and online lectures focused on professional development. Students will be expected to work full time (40 hours per week) and will be compensated $600 dollars per week for the duration of the eight-week summer program. We expect accept ~35 students into NSURP each year.
- How: URM undergraduate students submit applications (application period is February-April) to participate in NSURP. Prospective NSURP mentors apply by submitting project descriptions to the NSURP site. After undergraduate participants are chosen, the NSURP team will connect students with mentors and from there, the research project is in the hands of the student and the mentor. NSURP organizers will arrange weekly seminars and professional development talks that students are also expected to participate in.
- When: The program will be 8 weeks long and will run June 10th – August 2nd 2024.
- Where: Wherever you are right now. This experience is meant to be completely virtual.
For more details, including Mentor FAQs, applying for or submit a project, or project ideas and implementation, check out the For Students and For Mentors pages.
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