The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Undergraduate Scholarship Program (UGSP) offers competitive academic scholarships for up to $20,000 per academic year to students from financially disadvantaged backgrounds who are committed to careers biomedical, behavioral, and social science health-related research. Scholarships are awarded for 1 year, and can be renewed for up to 4 years.
Please visit our website at: https://www.training.nih.gov/programs/ugsp for additional information. We ask that you share this announcement with your colleagues or candidates who may be interested in this award.
UGSP offers:
Scholarship support
Paid research training at the NIH during the summer and after graduation
Eligibility requirements:
U.S.A. citizen or U.S.A. permanent resident
Enrolled or accepted for enrollment as a full-time student at an accredited 4-year undergraduate institution located in the United States of America
Undergraduate University Grade Point Average of 3.3 or higher on a 4.0-point scale or within the top 5 percent of your class
Having ‘Exceptional Financial Need’ as certified by your undergraduate institution financial aid office (UGSP’s Exceptional Financial Need Form (EFN) can be found on the OITE/UGSP website)
KEY DATES FOR ADMISSION CONSIDERATION IN FALL 2019-2020 ACADEMIC YEAR
(Dates updated 1 December 2018)
- January 2, 2019 – Application Opens
- March 18, 2019 – Application Deadline
- March 2019 – Letter of Recommendation Deadline
- May 15, 2019 – EFN Form with Tax Information Deadline
- Mid-June 2019 – Invitations to Phone Interview Distributed
- July 2019 – Phone Interviews for Admission
- Late-July 2019 – Selection of Scholars
- Please contact Dr. Darryl Murray (Director of the UGSP) or Adrian Warren @ [email protected], if you have any questions regarding the UGSP.
Summer Internship Program: https://www.training.nih.gov/programs/sip
Deadline: March 1st,2019
Internships cover a minimum of eight weeks, with students generally arriving at the NIH in May or June. The NIH Institutes/Centers and the Office of Intramural Training & Education (OITE) sponsor a wide range of summer activities including an orientation to help interns get off to a good start, lectures featuring distinguished NIH investigators, career/professional development workshops, and Summer Poster Day.
Eligibility: The 2019 Summer Internship Program is for students who
- are 18 years of age or older on June 15, 2019,*
- are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, AND
- are in college (including community college) or graduate/professional school at the time of application, OR
- are high school graduates at the time of application and have been accepted into accredited college or university programs.
Students with disabilities; students from racial and ethnic groups that have been shown by the NSF to be underrepresented in health-related sciences on a national basis (Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians or Native Americans, and Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders); students who identify as LGBTQ; students who are Pell-grant eligible; and others disadvantaged by circumstances that have negatively impacted their educational opportunities, including recent natural disasters, are encouraged to apply.
Postbaccalaureate Intramural Program: https://www.training.nih.gov/programs/postbac_irta
The NIH Postbac IRTA program (CRTA, Cancer Research Training Award, in the National Cancer Institute) provides recent college graduates who are planning to apply to graduate or professional (medical/dental/pharmacy/nursing/veterinary, etc.) school an opportunity to spend one or two years performing full-time research at the NIH. Postbac IRTAs/CRTAs work side-by-side with some of the leading scientists in the world, in an environment devoted exclusively to biomedical research. The NIH consists of the 240-bed Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center and more than 1100 laboratories/research projects, located on the main campus in Bethesda, MD and the surrounding area as well as in Baltimore and Frederick, MD; Research Triangle Park, NC; Hamilton, MT; Framingham, MA; Phoenix, AZ; and Detroit, MI.
Eligibility: The Postbac IRTA/CRTA Program is for individuals who meet any ONE of the following criteria:
- college graduates who received their bachelor’s degrees less than THREE years prior to the date they begin the program,
- individuals who are more than 3 years past the receipt of their bachelor’s degree but received a master’s degree less than SIX MONTHS before they begin the program, OR
- students who have been accepted into graduate, other doctoral, or medical school programs and who have written permission from their school to delay entrance for up to one year to pursue a biomedical research project at the NIH.
To be eligible, candidates must also be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. In addition, they must intend to apply to graduate or professional school during their tenure at the NIH.
Graduate Partnership Programs: https://www.training.nih.gov/programs/gpp
The NIH Office of Intramural Training & Education (OITE) hosts the Graduate Partnerships Program (GPP), which is designed to bring PhD graduate students to the NIH Intramural Research Program for dissertation research. Participants enjoy the academic environment of a university, the extensive research resources of the NIH, and the breadth and depth of the research programs of both the host university and the NIH Intramural Research Program (IRP). The goal is to create a different kind of graduate experience, one that focuses on training the next generation of scientific leaders by emphasizing communication and collaboration skills, integration of information, and interdisciplinary investigation. All graduate students at the NIH are part of the GPP and can take advantage of the graduate student community as well as career and professional development services supported by the Office of Intramural Training & Education (OITE).
ELIGIBILITY: There are many NIH-University partnerships available to US citizens, US permanent residents, or international graduate students. Review the partnership descriptions to determine which pathway, partnerships, and online application form are most appropriate for your admission consideration