NIH INBRE Summer Undergraduate Research Program - 2008

Call for Mentors

 
Oklahoma is the recipient of a major grant from the NIH Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Program to develop an IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE).  One of the INBRE initiatives is a summer undergraduate research program to expose promising students to the exciting world of research and as a mechanism for increasing the applicant pool for graduate programs in biomedical research at Oklahoma's comprehensive campuses.  We are soliciting faculty mentors for the summer of 2008.

Each student will receive a stipend of $4,000 (subject to taxes) to pay living expenses over the 9 week (June-July) summer research experience.  In addition, each Mentor's laboratory will receive $1,500 for lab supplies.  Each mentor's department is responsible for purchasing supplies and/or submitting invoices to the INBRE administrative office.  Each student will present a scientific poster of their summer research project at the end of the program.  Funds from the $1,500 allocation for lab supplies should be used to cover the cost of making the poster.

 
If you are interested in serving as a faculty Mentor, please submit a one page description of your research including a brief description of the project envisioned for the summer student.  In addition, please submit your current NIH-style Biographical Sketch and all contact information including email and mailing address.  Please submit both documents via email in Word format to Sasha Smith at ssmith@osrhe.edu  (405-225-9419) by December 10, 2007.  Applications from prospective faculty mentors at both the research-intensive institutions and Oklahoma regional universities are strongly encouraged.

For the summer of 2008, we plan to support promising students from primarily undergraduate campuses in Oklahoma.  The undergraduate institutions are:  Northeastern State University, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Langston University, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, the University of Central Oklahoma, Cameron University, East Central University, Rogers State University, the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Panhandle State University.  The students may be placed with faculty mentors at these undergraduate institutions or at the INBRE research-intensive institutions: Oklahoma State University, the University of Tulsa, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OU Norman, and the OU Health Sciences Center.  In addition, mentors are also being solicited for additional students from four participating community colleges: Oklahoma City Community College, Redlands Community College, Tulsa Community College and Comanche Nation College.

 
Please contact Frank Waxman, INBRE Director, at fwaxman@osrhe.edu  or at
405-225-9459 if you have any questions.
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