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de Kiewiet Summer Research Fellowships

Application Process Overview / Intent to Apply
About: Officially declared biology majors in their junior year submit competitive proposals for a chance to be selected for a deKiewiet Fellowship Stipend. This funding will allow the student to stay in Rochester during the upcoming summer and do research with a faculty member of their choice.

All interested will need to find a member of the UR teaching faculty with a biological science lab who will agree to supervise an undergraduate's research project and the writing of their scientific research proposal.

In addition to the proposal, candidates must also prepare other documentation supporting their application, as listed in the "Application Process" section below. Please note that laboratories can be located on River Campus or in the Medical Center.

de Kiewiet Fellows work for ten weeks during June, July, and August in the labs of their research mentor and receive a stipend of $5,000.

In addition, fellows will need to create and present a poster of their research findings at the UPBM Poster Session in October of their fellowship year.

Project Requirements: Summer projects must be rooted within the biological sciences. Projects need to be hypothesis-driven and non-clinical (no patient studies.) Although clinical studies may inspire some scientific arguments, the proposed research should yield data from experimentation that involves laboratory and computational methods for further analysis.

Eligibility: All officially declared UPBM majors in their junior year are eligible to apply.

Application Process
- Find a research mentor who is a member of the UR teaching faculty
- Submit Intent to Apply online form by March 1st (click on button bottom of page to navigate to form)
- Prepare and upload the following supporting documents by the first Monday after spring break (click on links for details)
  1. Formal Scientific Research Proposal - 6 pages
  2. Relevant Professional Experience Summary - 1 page
  3. Research and Career Goals Summary - 1 page
- Student should ask & remind the following to write and email a letter on their behalf to the UPBM Committee by the first Monday after Spring Break to the UPBM Office
  1. Research mentor letter of reference
  2. Faculty member letter of reference
- Statement of Authorship: students needs to ask their research mentor to prepare and include with the letter of reference by 3/13 deadline to UPBM Office

Intent to Apply to the de Kiewiet Fellowship

Student
Student First Name*
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Student Last Name*
Last Name
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UR ID*
Class
For UPBM majors in their junior year (excludes take-5)
Major*
Must be officially declared UPBM Majors Includes: BA BIO (Biology), BS BSG (Biology: General) BS BBC (Biochemistry), BS BCB (Computational Biology), BS BCD (Cell and Developmental Biology), BS BEB Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BS BMB (Microbiology), BS BMG (Molecular Genetics), and BS BNS (Neuroscience)
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BNS MAJORS: If BNS major please note that both the track advisor for the major, Dr. Renee Miller as well as you faculty advisor will be notified. Please indicate faculty advisor below.
BNS Faculty Advisor Name
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Research Mentor

Who has agreed to sponsor project and supervise proposal writing
INSTRUCTOR ELIGIBILITY: Please note that the research mentor must be a member of the UR Teaching Faculty.
Faculty First Name*
Faculty Last Name*
Title
Department*
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Proposal Information

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Acknowledgement*

I acknowledge Information entered is accurate; that a proposal, 2 summaries and 2 letters of recommendation by the research mentor and another faculty mentor need to be emailed to marianne.arcoraci@rochester.edu by 3/13 by midnight, and that the UPBM committee will review all academic history, proposals, summaries and relevant information.

de Kiewiet Summer Research Fellowships

Intent to Apply to the de Kiewiet Fellowship

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