Student selection into the IDGeNe Program is based on two major aspects, academic performance, and interest toward a career in genomic research. A cohort of eight students will be selected every year for a two-year internship in the Program.
Who should apply?
- Undergraduate students interest doing a PhD or MD/PhD.
- Undergraduate students interested in topics that can be biological, medical, computational, ethical, social, or legal, among others, but that address important aspects of the genomic field, as part of their future career goals.
- Undergraduate Students from any of the departments of Natural Sciences, Social Sciences or Education. The combination of these departments provides a very diverse pool of students, in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, social status and students with disabilities.
- Undergraduate students at various stages of their career path. Ideally, rising sophomores or rising juniors will be selected.
Application Process...
Applications will be due around mid-spring semester. The selected students will start their first summer internship on-site the first Monday of June. During this process, a list of the IDGeNe mentors will be provided to the applicants so that they can specify three research laboratories, with whom they might be interested in performing their research work, indicating their preference in order of interest.
The application process has four (4) phases:
Phase 1: Online Application Submission. In the application form the students will answer three different questions:
- What are your career goals?
- What do is your understanding of a research career?
- Why are you interested in Genomics?
The students should have:
- GPA greater than 3.0
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- Submit, at least, two (2) letters of recommendations, preferably, but not limited to university professors.
- While some prior research experience is preferred, this is not used as exclusion criteria.
Phase 2: Application’s Evaluation Process by the committee.
Phase 3: In Person Interviews. A schedule meeting with the candidate and the program’s principal investigators.
Phase 4: The top eight candidates will be invited to become the new IDGeNe Scholars