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program benefits
Undergraduate students participating in the Summer Biomedical Training Program at UMBC spend a ten-week research experience with energetic UMBC and UMB faculty in state-of-the-art facilities while living on campus. The program is funded by The Leadership Alliance and UMBC. Many participants have also been able to receive funding through the FASEB MARC Program.
Program Benefits
This innovative program includes:
- Round trip transportation
- On-campus housing, meal allowance and stipend
- GRE preparation
- Graduate-level education workshops and seminars
- Participation in Annual Summer Research Fest
The GRE Prep Course is provides students with a thorough understanding of each of the sections of the exam. The objectives of the course are to:
- Increase reading comprehension of difficult material under high time pressure
- Teach the most successful test management techniques
- Familiarize students with question types specific to the GRE
- Review anxiety reduction techniques
- Improve performance and reduce test anxiety by success in practice testing
At the end of the summer, students participate in the Annual Summer Research Fest hosted by UMBC’s College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. This event serves as the culmination for all of the summer research programs on campus and features oral and poster presentations by approximately 70-80 summer researchers. An estimated 175-200 people attend this event annually.
Students receiving funding from The Leadership Alliance also present their research at The Leadership Alliance National Symposium held in July of each year in Hartford, Connecticut.
Participating Departments
The program currently supports students interested in doing research in the following cross-disciplinary areas:
For more information on eligibility criteria, visit the How to Apply section of this site. Please direct questions to Justine Johnson, program coordinator.