Applicants must have at least one year of school remaining. Research will be conducted with Dr. Robert Barlow on the visual system of horseshoe crabs with Specific areas of research include studies of the animal s vision in its natural environment, the ocean, circadian modulation of the properties of the retina, neural coding underlying the animal s visual behavior and processing of visual information by the brain. The Graduate Schools offers a summer research program for minority undergraduate students from schools other than Princeton to work with Princeton faculty and research staff for 9 weeks. This is a 12-week program and it includes travel, housing, stipend and possible course credit. The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is sponsoring their 10th annual Summer Undergraduate Research Program that runs from June 5-August 10, 2000.
Stipend is paid.
The Fort Johnson Summer Fellowship Research Program offers a 10 week program for undergraduates combining formal classroom work and independent research in the physiology, cell and molecular biology of marine organisms. Participants are engaged in full-time research under faculty member in laboratory of choice. Program dates are June 12-August 18. Stipend, travel allowance, room, board and access to public housing is provided. The Rodale Institute offers paid internships for undergraduate biology majors interested in M.S. or Ph.D. in agriculture and who have interest in soils and agriculture research.