{"id":2726,"date":"2025-01-28T17:28:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T22:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medsci\/?page_id=2726"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:22:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:22:52","slug":"blast","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medsci\/training\/beams\/blast\/","title":{"rendered":"BLAST"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"caret-color: #0981b5;\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">B<\/span>oston University <span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">L<\/span>ab <span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">A<\/span>pprenticeship in<span style=\"color: #cc0000;\"> S<\/span>cience &amp; <span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">T<\/span>echnology<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">BLAST<\/span><\/strong> launches Summer 2026!<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>APPLICATIONS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medsci\/training\/beams\/blast-application\/\">OPEN<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">DEADLINE MARCH 28, 2026<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATIONS APRIL 5, 2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>BLAST is a <strong>paid internship<\/strong> featuring <strong>problem-based learning and laboratory practicums<\/strong>, to help high school students foster scientific literacy and readiness for college-level science courses.<\/p>\n<p>BLAST interns will also have opportunities to be matched with <strong>undergraduate, graduate, and medical students from the BU community as mentors<\/strong>, to support their pursuit of careers in biomedical research.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Eligibility<\/strong><\/span>: Must be a rising high school junior, rising high school senior, or graduating high school senior; must have a a demonstrated interest in science; honors or advanced STEM coursework preferred.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Dates<\/strong><\/span>: July 6-August 14, 2026<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Time<\/strong><\/span>: Monday-Friday, 9 am-4 pm<\/p>\n<p>Lunch and T-pass provided.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BLAST is funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (R01AR084505) from <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/joneslab\/principal-investigator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Dennis Jones<\/a>, and run in partnership with BEAMS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University Lab Apprenticeship in Science &amp; Technology BLAST launches Summer 2026! APPLICATIONS OPEN DEADLINE MARCH 28, 2026 ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATIONS APRIL 5, 2026 BLAST is a paid internship featuring problem-based learning and laboratory practicums, to help high school students foster scientific literacy and readiness for college-level science courses. BLAST interns will also have opportunities to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13095,"featured_media":0,"parent":1649,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13095"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2726"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2871,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2726\/revisions\/2871"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}