Student Activities
There are many interesting and exciting activities in store for the student participants in the Undergraduate Summer Research Program. Each 10-week program is designed to allow undergraduates to spend 90% of their time doing important biological research, supplemented with activities to facilitate written communication skills, develop an understanding of the responsible conduct of science, examine career opportunities, enhance biomedical information search and retrieval skills, and develop a broad overview of biology through interactive seminars. Each competitve program provides the student with a stipend of $3,000.
The Capital District is located in the heart of upstate New York. The region offers an exceptional quality of life with an abundance of recreational, cultural, and educational resources. There is easy access to the Adirondack Mountains to the east, and the Catskill Mountains to the south. Nearby recreational areas include Lake George and the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Albany, which is equidistant from Montreal, Boston, and New York City has a population of about 120,000, while the Capital District has more than 700,000 residents and eight undergraduate colleges and universities.
Opportunities are available for all of the Undergraduate summer research programs in the following basic science centers:
- Cardiovascular Sciences
- Cell Biology and Cancer Research
- Immunology and Microbial Disease
- Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience
