Mentoring early career researchers

• Biomedical Graduate Training Programs run by the Office of Diversity and Minority Affairs.
• Grants available for trainees including students, post docs and residents.
• CityLab’s SummerLab Program provides an opportunity for students to learn and apply basic techniques and concepts related to biotechnology. Working in teams, the participants assume the role of researchers in a biotechnology company and work cooperatively to choose and perform appropriate laboratory-based investigations to solve problems in biotechnology.
  • This summer there is a special offer being extended to the BU community. All children of BU faculty and staff will receive a 50% scholarship off of the $1,000 fee. Eligible students will be entering grade 10 – college freshmen in the fall of 2013.
• Medical Student Summer Research Program offers up to 30 competitive $2,750 scholarships to first-year Boston University medical students to complete an 8-week research project with a BUMC faculty member during the summer.
• NIH National Graduate Student Research Festival recruits outstanding young scientists to postdoctoral positions in the intramural research program at the NIH.
• Posse Foundation: Public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential receive four-year, full-tuition leadership scholarships.
• Postdoctoral recruitment at UT Southwestern
• Responsible Conduct of Research training for undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs
• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship: The SURF Program is designed to promote access to graduate education for talented undergraduate students, especially those from minority groups traditionally underrepresented in the sciences.
• Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program: BU students can perform research on a volunteer basis, for academic credit, through the work-study program, as a mentor-funded assistant, or with the aid of a UROP grant.