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End of The Year Social

MCAT Head-2-Head Debate

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) - Summer 2010

The Office of Undergraduate Research is now accepting applications for the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF-UH) program. The SURF-UH program awards $3500 stipends to students interested in conducting a full-time, 10 week summer research project in any field under the mentorship of a UH faculty mentor. The student first secures the research project with the faculty member, and then the student and faculty member apply for the program collaboratively online.

All continuing UH undergraduates, who have not previously participated in the SURF-UH program, with at least a 3.0 gpa are eligible to apply as long as they are not graduating in spring 2010 or summer 2010. The deadline for SURF-UH 2010 is Wednesday, March 24th. Applications are available online at http://uh.edu/honors/undergraduate-research/uh-research/surf/index.php.

Also, save the date for the Provost's Undergraduate Research Scholarship (PURS) program for fall 2010. The deadline is Wednesday, April 21st. All full-time juniors and seniors, who have not previously participated in the PURS program, with at least a 3.0 gpa are eligible to apply for this part-time semester research opportunity. For more information, visit the PURS website at http://uh.edu/honors/undergraduate-research/uh-research/purs/index.php.

If you have any questions, please contact Karen Weber at kweber@uh.edu or Dr. Stuart Long, the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Research, at long@uh.edu.

MCAT Online Course Auction: March 9th - April 5th at 11:59pm

Medical Research Opportunities

The Cancer Prevention Education: Student Research Experiences program at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center enables students to work in a research environment with extensive epidemiologic, laboratory and clinical facilities under the supervision of an established investigator on the faculty of M. D. Anderson, as well as attend seminars and lectures. A total of eight students will be selected to participate in the 12-week program. Students must have either (a) completed their sophomore or junior year and be enrolled in anundergraduate degree program classified as a junior or senior by September 2010, or (b) completed their undergraduate degree (no earlier than December 2009) and be accepted to start a graduate program by September 2010. Students must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the United States. Participants in the program receive a stipend of up to $2,166 per month for the three-month period. The completed application—consisting of an application form (attached), résumé or curriculum vitae, a brief statement of intent, a letter of recommendation from a professor or academic advisor and a copy of transcript with grades—must be submitted by March 3, 2010. For more information, visit www.CancerPreventionTraining.org.

The Academic Associates Program allows undergraduates to gain exposure to emergency medicine clinical research. Participants observe the clinical practice of emergency medicine through active involvement in various clinical studies taking place in the Pediatric Emergency Department at Texas Children's Hospital. Also, the program provides access to clinicians and researchers that may lead to mentor-mentee and other valuable professional relationships. The program is a collaboration between the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's. Applications will be accepted through June 12. Applications are available at http://nsm.uh.edu/docs/nsm/newsdocs/Academic%20Associates%20Application%20updated%2042009.pdf.

Interested in conducting summer research in emergency medicine?

URAP is seeking UH undergraduates to conduct research this summer in emergency medicine at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston. RSVP to Karen Weber at kweber@uh.edu to attend. For more information on the program, visit http://www.uth.tmc.edu/uth_orgs/emer_med/urap/index.html. Also, after this info session, you will have the opportunity to see an example of a clinical trial in emergency medicine on traumatic brain injuries.