Summer Research Workshop Broadening Horizons

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Summer Research WorkshopBroadening Horizons

• Presented by
• Ryon Graf- Genetics
• Jacqueline Seiglie- Neurobiology
• November 27th, 2007

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Why do research?
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• Hands-on experience

2. Learn to think critically
3. Letters of recommendation
4. Networking!
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Plan aheadgetting a good foundation
Get Involved
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Summer Research
Broadening your horizons!
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Why?
Network at campus of interest for future career
plans
Obtain a deep insight of actual graduate program
curriculums
Challenge yourself!
Why not?
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Who?

• Full-time MOTIVATED students in various
  disciplines

Biology
Social Science
Engineering
Physical Science
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When?
Jan 30th

• As early as the end of
• freshman year
• Typically
• January-February
• deadlines

Feb 1st
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Where?

• Prestigious institutions within and outside the
  U.S.

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Spain, Mexico, Ghana
Harvard Medical School
UCI
UCSF
NYU
Cold Spring Harbor
MIT
Stanford
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Application process
Find Program of interest
Step 1
Deadlines
Location
Housing
Stipend
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Application process Step 2
The recipe to success

• Motivational/Enthusiastic
• personal statement
• 2. Strong letters of
• recommendation
• 3. Curriculum Vitae
• 4. Strong GPA

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What to expect?
Let us tell you about our personal experiences
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A Summer at Harvard Medical School
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Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program
(SHURP)

• 10 intense/ challenging
• weeks
• Weekly career seminars
• Leadership Alliance
• Symposium
• Network! Network!
• Network!

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A Summer at NYU Medical School
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SURP

• 9 intense/fun-filled
• weeks !

in the heart of lower Manhattan

• Research opportunities available in wide variety
  of disciplines

• Career seminars and tours of New York

bike tour around the city and Broadway plays
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Clinical Component

• Autopsies
• Physician Mentor
• Lots of shadowing opportunities at NYU
  Hospitals

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A summer at Cold Spring Harbor
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Undergraduate
Research Program Long Island, New York
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About CHSL

• James Watson
• CSHL Press
• 7 Nobel Prizes
• 50 Nobel Laureates
• Human Genome
• 35 miles from NYC

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Weekend Trips to NYC Broadway Show!
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Cold Spring Harbor Undergraduate Research
Program www.CSHL.edu/URP June 8 - August 15
2008 Applications due February 1st, 2008 Other
questions? Contact me!!! Ryon Graf
(rgraf_at_uci.edu)
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Harvard Medical School Summer Honors
Undergraduate Research Program (SHURP) http//www.
hms.harvard.edu/dms/diversity/shurpintro.html June
1st- August 9th, 2008 Applications due February
1st, 2008
NYU School of Medicine Summer Undergraduate
Research Program (SURP) http//www.med.nyu.edu/sac
kler/programs/summer.html June 1st- August 2nd,
2008 Applications due February 1st, 2008
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Where to find more info?
http//www.urop.uci.edu/opportunities.html
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Questions?