SURP for Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds

Summer Undergraduate Research Program for Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds

Are you ready for a challenge?

Want to spend your summer in a state of the art research laboratory as a team member -- using and expanding your scientific knowledge and skills, and learning more about health care/research career options?

Want to see what the competition looks like?

Each summer the University of Nebraska Medical Center research faculty hosts approximately 100 undergraduate students interested in health care/research careers for 9-12 week full-time research placements.

Students receive a stipend, housing, roundtrip airfare, weekly enrichment seminars, and an introduction to an academic health science center.

Selection Requirements:

• Academically talented students interested in pursuing healthcare, science, and/or research careers.
• Cumulative GPA of 3.4 in the sciences.
• U.S. citizen or holding permanent resident visa.
• Background of educational or economic disadvantage.
• Completion of science course(s) beyond general biology or chemistry (e.g., organic chemistry, microbiology, genetics, biochemistry, statistics, etc.

Application Deadline: March 1
To apply to this program, visit the Summer Undergraduate Research Website and follow the instructions.

Here’s what former summer students have said about the program:

• "The time I spent in the lab really gave me a more critical scientific opinion, as this has been made mention of by my professors, especially in my writing for my classes."
• "The techniques I learned in the lab have really helped me in my analytical lab this fall."
• "I'm much better organized and comfortable in lab, and my lab reports show it."
• "Used information on medical ethics in two of my classes this fall."
• "Met new friends and we’re keeping in touch and helping one another this semester."