Nemours Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Community college and four-year college students, including freshmen and sophomores, who want a funded pediatric research summer in the Mid-Atlantic or the South. The $6,000 scholarship makes it possible to skip a summer job.

• US citizen or permanent resident
• Enrolled as an undergraduate student at the time of application
• Minimum 3.2 college GPA
• Interest in research motivated by problems in pediatric health
• Available full time, 40 hours a week, for all 10 weeks

• 10 weeks full time, roughly late May through the end of July
• $6,000 scholarship paid in two installments
• A clinical, laboratory, or translational research project
• A mentor at a Nemours Children's site
• Occasional placements at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia for the Delaware site

• Application form submitted through the Nemours RedCap survey platform
• Current resume
• Two letters of recommendation, one from a science faculty member
• Transcripts; unofficial are accepted
• Short essay responses
• Optional supplementary files

• The window is only six weeks and it spans winter break. Ask your science faculty recommender in November, before campus empties out.
• Recommendation letters have their own later deadline of January 31, so your application can go in first while letters catch up.
• Name a specific site in your materials if you have a reason. Delaware, Jacksonville, Orlando, and Pensacola all host positions and mentors differ.
• Frame your essay around a pediatric health problem you care about. That framing is written into the eligibility criteria.
• Housing and travel are your responsibility, so pick a site you can realistically live near for 10 weeks.

Applications go through a RedCap survey linked from the Nemours research education page. Acceptances are announced by March 31.