FIRE is excited to announce the 2023 FIRE Summer Research Internships, a research experience and professional development opportunity built for a wide range of University of Maryland (UMD) students.
This opportunity is available to UMD undergraduates both affiliated with and independent of the FIRE program at UMD.
FIRE Summer Research Internships provide:
a research-intensive, faculty-mentored 8-week summer experience
AND
3 credits of transcript-impacting FIRE199: FIRE Research Internship course credit
FIRE Summer Research Interns work closely with our FIRE Faculty Leaders and a small group of their undergraduate peers on focused research projects in FIRE stream locations across campus.
All FIRE Summer Research Interns will participate in a broad range of potential research engagements:
receive fundamental research, technology, and method training (no previous experience is required for all participants),
learn, test, and implement new research methodologies and protocols,
design and pilot experiments,
gather and analyze data,
and develop and share a finalized project or other research accomplishments.
All FIRE Summer Research Interns will strongly develop their leadership potential and other professional capacities through weekly program-wide seminars and professional development discussions.
Each FIRE stream has a small number of FIRE Summer Research Interns, ensuring selected students get a focused, faculty-mentored research experience.
Eligibility
The FIRE Summer Research Internships is the opportunity through which FIRE is able to offer its resources to students who are currently in FIRE, those who have already completed FIRE, and other UMD undergraduate students who are not affiliated with FIRE.
To be clear on this issue of eligibility for FIRE Summer Research Internships - the following groups of UMD undergraduates are encouraged to consider this exciting opportunity and apply:
Current FIRE students
Enrolled in FIRE Semester 2, Spring 2023
Current FIRE Peer Research Mentors
Completed FIRE students
Those who have already completed FIRE, not currently FIRE Peer Research Mentors, at UMD completing their degree. Do you wish you could come back to FIRE and have an additional mentored internship experience to broaden your research portfolio? You can!
All current UMD undergraduates
Did you just transfer to UMD? Are you or were you in another first-year program? Do you have extensive research experience or would you like to use the FIRE Summer Research Internships as a gateway to get involved in research? You are eligible!
