Fellowships/Programs

2025 Hertz Fellowship: Info Session TODAY

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The application for the 2025 Hertz Fellowship is now open through November 1, 2024.

The Hertz Fellowship is awarded annually to the nation’s most promising graduate students in science and technology. Using a rigorous, merit-based process, the Hertz Foundation identifies innovators with the greatest potential to create transformative solutions to the world’s most urgent challenges.

The Hertz Fellowship compensation package includes a cost-of-education allowance and a personal stipend valued at up to $250,000.

All eligible applicants must:

  • be college seniors, first-year graduate students, or in a gap period preparing to apply to graduate school;
  • intend to pursue a PhD in the applied physical and biological sciences, mathematics, or engineering;
  • intend to direct their studies toward understanding and solving major, near-term problems facing society; and
  • be citizens or permanent residents of the United States.

Information Session

TODAY, August 29, at 6:00 PM ET, Hertz Fellows Amani Maina-Kilaas, Maddie Urbanek, and Jennifer Schloss will take part in an online information session to share details about this unique doctoral funding opportunity and provide advice to prospective applicants to help them prepare their best application package.

If you have any questions, please reach out to  fellowshipinfo@hertzfoundation.org.

Tri-Institutional Mentorship Initiative (TIMI)

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The Tri-I Mentorship Initiative (TIMI) is a virtual mentorship program led by the Tri-Institutional Outreach Committee, a group of students from Weill Cornell Medicine, Sloan Kettering, and Rockefeller University. Prospective graduate students will be paired with an individual graduate student mentor to help them navigate the graduate school application process.

The committee is actively seeking mentees. Eligible students are prospective PhD program applicants interested in applying to graduate school this year and either currently hold or will receive a Bachelor’s degree by Spring 2025. PhD programs of interest should be in a biomedical-related field.

Apply for the TIMI Mentorship before is August 7, 2024. 

The program kickoff meeting is on August 21. Mentees will meet with their mentors at least three times between September and November. All programming is held virtually.

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) Virtual Office Hours for Student Summer Researchers

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Join the Virtual Office Hours for Student Summer Researchers to gain an understanding of the eligibility requirements, application process, and review criteria for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP).

The first portion of the session will entail an overview presentation, followed by a Q & A with Program Officers. Audience participation is encouraged! Sessions will take place on the following dates and times:

  • July 9, 2024, 4:00 PM- 5:00 PM Eastern
  • July 16, 2024, 4:00 PM-5:00 PM Eastern
  • July 19, 2024, 10:00 AM-11:00 AM Eastern
  • July 24, 2024, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM Eastern

Register for a session. 

For additional information, contact outreach@nsfgrfp.org.

Student Opportunities at Air Force Research Laboratory

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Contacts at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has provided CBC with a flyer describing opportunities for undergraduates (and recent undergraduates) to get funding to work at or with AFRL. The flyer is linked here: AFRL Opportunities

The programs vary substantially: some are almost entirely managed externally, and some allow AFRL researchers to advocate heavily for specific collaborations. Each program has various requirements which are described in in detail with the links.

University of Chicago: Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP)

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Application Deadline: March 31, 2024

The University of Chicago is accepting applications for the 2023-24 academic year of its Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP).

The PREP is designed to provide mentoring, research skills, coursework and a positive learning environment to recent post-baccalaureate students, who intend to pursue a PhD degree in biomedical science. This program is a unique opportunity for students to strengthen their applications to PhD Programs nation-wide by conducting research as laboratory technicians for one year at the University of Chicago and by participating in academic activities that will prepare them to be successful graduate students.

U.S. Quantum Information Science Summer School Program

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Application Deadline: March 15

Oak Ridge National Laboratory will hose the second US Quantum Information Science (QIS) Summer School facilitated by the US Department of Energy National Quantum Information Science Research Centers from July 15 to 26, 2024.

The summer school is an in-residence learning experience for outstanding graduate and undergraduate students and early-career scientists seeking hands-on experience with quantum science and technology in a laboratory setting. The curriculum will be taught at a graduate level.

Curriculum Topics:

  • Topological approaches to quantum computing
  • Cold atoms and ion traps
  • Error mitigation and error correction
  • The current state of the quantum information science field
  • Applications of quantum technologies, quantum materials, and quantum sensing

For eligibility and application information, please visit the QIS Summer School webpage.

Beckman Scholars Program: Info Session 1/18

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The Beckman Scholars Program is funded by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. In 2022, The Ohio State University joined 13 other universities to participate in the Beckman Scholars Program. This funding allows for 2 exceptionally talented, full-time undergraduate students to participate in a 15-month mentored research experience. This funding will last for 3 years, with support for 2 students each year.

The 2024-2025 application deadline is February 5, 2024.

Professors Christine Thomas and Venkat Gopalan will conduct an information session through Zoom on Thursday, January 18 from 6:30 to 7:30 PM.  Please contact Emily Potter at potter.276@osu.edu to request the Zoom meeting link. For any other information pertaining to the program and the application, please email beckmanscholars@osu.edu.

Scholarship & Training Opportunity: MARC T34 at OSU

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Application Deadline: February 15, 2024

This is Ohio State’s first T34 grant for Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The mission of the “Molecules to Society” MARC T34 at Ohio State is to increase diversity in the next generation of biomedical scholars doing impactful research. This will be accomplished by providing undergraduate students from historically underrepresented groups with a research-focused training program that includes courses, experiential learning, faculty and graduate student mentoring, and peer-support.

Information Sessions:

  • Tues, January 23 at 5:00 PM in Hale Hall MLK Lounge
  • Wed, January 31 at 5:00PM in Hale Hall 110B

RSVP here.

Program Features and Benefits:

  • Training for future biomedical, research focused advanced degrees (PhD or MD/PhD)
  • Experiential learning, mentoring, & peer-support
  • Training in research methods
  • Preparation for graduate school success
  • Scholarship: Tuition support and stipend

Qualifications and Requirements:

  • Rising junior in Autumn 2024
  • Chemistry, engineering, public health, biomedical sciences, or STEM majors
  • Minimum GPA 3.0
  • Research-oriented and interested in research-focused higher degree program (PhD or MD/PhD)
  • Previous research experience is NOT required
  • One essay to address your interest in being a MARC scholar
  • Two (2) letters of recommendation (At least one letter from an academic reference)
  • Resume or curriculum vitae (CV)

Questions may be addressed to marc@osu.edu.

Cleveland Clinic MOST Fellowship

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The Cleveland Clinic Foundations Clinical Post-baccalaureate program is accepting applications for the 2024-2025 Cohort through April 30, 2024.

In partnership with Stanford University, the Medical Observation and Scribe Training (MOST) Fellowship is a 12 month program designed to provide exceptional clinical experience and professional development to students while strengthening their applications to Medical school, PA school, and other health care programs. Students in the program act as a Medical Scribe in clinic with a Physician Mentor. The most recent MOST Fellowship cohort had an 88% acceptance rate into medical school.

Students complete 24 hours per week of scribing and medical observation with their assigned clinical preceptor in clinic. Other optional experiences included in the MOST fellowship are:

  • Shadowing in other medical specialties
  • Conducting research in any specialty of interest
  • Multiple group volunteering projects throughout the year
  • MCAT tutoring
  • Experiences in state-of-the-art simulation lab workshops
  • In person and virtual clinical workshops
  • Access to Cleveland Clinic Residency Grand Rounds
  • Medical school site visits and interview prep
  • Ability for paid part time opportunities within the Cleveland Clinic
  • Letters of recommendation
  • MOST Fellow Alumni Peer Mentor for Application Support
  • End of the year Stanford University-Cleveland Clinic Research Symposium

To learn more, visit the MOST Fellowships website or email MOSTFellowship@ccf.org.

NBAF High Containment Laboratory Skills Training Program

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The Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Biosecurity Research Institute (BRI) at Kansas State University are accepting applications for fellowship positions for the summer of 2024.

This program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS), is designed to build technical skills and knowledge needed to work in a high containment diagnostic, animal, or insectary laboratory.

This program will provide introductory knowledge and skills through lectures and hands-on experiences in:

  • Conducting viral assays in a high containment laboratory at the Biosecurity Research Institute (BRI)
  • Conducting assays and procedures commonly used in a diagnostic laboratory
  • Common procedures used in a high containment large animal research setting
  • Working with mosquitoes for use in a laboratory setting
  • How to apply for positions with USDA APHIS or other government laboratories, such as, the Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (FADDL), the NBAF in Manhattan, KS, or the National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) in Ames, IA

Candidates must be undergraduates entering junior or senior year of study OR have recently graduated with a B.S. degree.

Learn more on the webpage or flyer.

Apply by November 5, 2023, 11:59pm CT.