URM
Undergraduate Research and Mentoring
in
the
Biological Sciences

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Application Deadline: March 15, 2009.

Application Procedure

  1. Download and/or print the Application Checklist. This checklist is a summary of the tasks necessary to ensure that your application is complete.

  2. Make direct contact with two or more URM faculty mentors with whom you might like to work. You should email, write, or phone the people that you might like to work with, and talk about what you would like to do.

  3. Ask three academic mentors or supervisors to write letters of recommendation on your behalf. Have them complete the online Reference Letter Submission Form.

  4. Complete the online Application Form. The application form asks you to write a brief (approximately 500 word) Statement of Purpose. This statement should discuss your research ideas and how these relate to the scientific interests of the faculty you'd like to work with.

  5. Have copies of official transcripts from the institution you are currently attending sent to the Program via email or regular mail (see the Contact Info page).