Benefits include a stipend, housing and round-trip transportation. This program is geared toward upper-division students with research experience who are interested in pursuing biomedical research in graduate or medical school. Students participate in research seminars, colloquia, and GRE preparation workshops. The program assists reapplicants in strengthening their science background and provides basic clinical skills, MCAT preparation, practice interviews, re-application strategies and counseling. Students must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents with an undergraduate degree and a science GPA of at least 2.7.
Research is available in all areas of physics.
Students are matched with a UCSD faculty member who serves as a research mentor during the summer. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents who are enrolled in an accredited undergraduate program. The program places undergraduates from outside UCSD who have completed their junior year into industry research laboratories in the San Diego area. Students work for eight weeks on research projects in the fields of organic, inorganic, environmental, computational, combinatorial, or physical chemistry or biomedicine or biochemistry. Participants interact with UCSD faculty and students at campus events, including seminar series and workshops.