Learn more about applying to the Ohio State University and the Five Colleges of Ohio 2022 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE), on Thursday, Nov. 18, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., in Chalmers 320.
The program offers paid internships exclusively to students enrolled at Denison University, Kenyon College, Oberlin College, Ohio Wesleyan University, and the College of Wooster, and will be held at the main Ohio State University campus in Columbus. The 2022 program will include opportunities in biology and microbiology, chemistry and biochemistry, statistics, biostatistics, epidemiology, physics and mathematics.
The 10-week program, offered from May 23 – July 29, 2022, will partner OSU faculty members with Ohio Five interns who will conduct individual projects that contribute to the faculty members’ research priorities. At OSU, students will gain experience working in an R-1 university laboratory alongside senior faculty and OSU undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, an ideal introduction to the graduate school research experience. Students will conclude their internships at a capstone event at OSU where they will present their research to OSU faculty and faculty and academic deans from their home institution, followed by a presentation at their college early in the fall semester.
Applicants may be STEM majors or, for the College of Public Health internships in biostatistics, statistics, and epidemiology, may also include social sciences majors who have statistics coursework. Those who initiate research projects they wish to continue may be invited to continue these activities with OSU following the internship. The program is especially suited to students interested in a graduate degree in the sciences that they may consider pursuing at OSU. Students will work 38 hours per week at $13.15 per hour, earning approximate gross wages of $5,000 for the anticipated full 10 weeks of full-time research, though individual mentors may adjust the contract term based on their research programs’ needs. Students will be housed in conference housing on the OSU campus at no cost to the intern. SURE interns also participate in OSU’s Summer Undergraduate Research Institute (SURI) programming from the OSU Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry.
Applications are due by Feb. 15, 2022; more information about the application process and individual research opportunities will be provided at the information session.
This information session is presented by Dr. Amy Ferketich: SURE faculty program co-director (public health), Professor-College of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology at the Ohio State University and Tracy Rudisill, program and budget manager, Five Colleges of Ohio, Inc.