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Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program

 

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"My UROP project was critical to understanding the concepts taught in my undergraduate coursework. And the scholarship gave me the freedom and flexibility to focus strictly on what I love to do: real science."

 

- Shawna Tanglao

'05 INBRE UROP scholar

 

Nevada INBRE sponsors 15 undergraduate research scholarships each year. Those selected for the program will spend the summer doing a lab research project in a faculty mentor’s laboratory. Summer research opportunities often lead to longer-term collaborations between students and faculty, publishable research and careers in medicine or biomedical research. Opportunities are available for research in emerging areas such as Genomics, Proteomics, Molecular Modeling, Imaging, and Bioinformatics. However, any area of research that might be supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is appropriate.

 

Students are selected in a statewide, merit-based competition. As part of the application process, students are required to identify a faculty mentor at UNR, UNSOM, UNLV or Nevada Cancer Institute with whom they are interested in conducting research. A list of faculty who have volunteered in the past as mentors is available; however, you are not limited to mentors on this list. Students may access the research institutions’ departmental websites for faculty engaged in biomedical research.

 

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