[JOB OPP] Opportunity for undergraduates interested in research (fwd)

Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 17:25:24 -0500 (EST)
From: "Bruce A. Maxwell" 
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For anyone interested in bioinformatics, this is a good opportunity.

--Bruce

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Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:20:36 -0500
From: Jeff Elhai 
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Subject: Opportunity for undergraduates interested in research

Some weeks ago you may have received an announcement about Virginia
Commonwealth University's Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Summer
Institute. It invites undergraduates into an experience that mimics what
they might find in an outstanding graduate school. They work within a
tight research community for two successive summers and continue their
projects over the intervening academic year at their home institutions.
The program is funded by NSF and NIH, supporting the students and their
projects over their periods of participation.

Students have evidently liked what they saw. Of the 14 members of our
first class, 10 are in graduate school, another is accepted for next
fall, one is in med school, and one is in an MD/PhD program.

This year, however, we have received relatively few applications. I
don't know why -- maybe better (worse?) spam filters on e-mail, our
primary means of advertising the program. In any event, if you know a
student who could benefit from the program and who by participating
could enrich the experiences of the other participants, this is a good year.

Please direct interested students to our web site:

             http://www.vcu.edu/csbc/bbsi

I am sending you in a separate message a flier that you can forward
directly to students.

Thanks for your help

Jeff

-- 
Jeff Elhai
Director, Bioinformatics & Bioengineering Summer Institute
Center for the Study of Biological Complexity
1000 W Cary St
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond VA 23284

Office: Life Sciences Building, Rm. 335
Tel: 1-804-828-0794
Fax: 1-804-828-1961
E-mail: bbsi@vcu.edu
web-site: http://www.vcu.edu/csbc/bbsi
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