STEMM opportunities for college students with Hearing loss to Engage in Auditory Research (STEMM-HEAR)
Funding from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will provide stipends to eight college students who have a personal interest in or experience with communication disorders to participate in summer research internships in auditory sciences laboratories at affiliated universities.
Students who have a personal interest in or experience with communication disorders must have completed their sophomore, or junior year of college by June 2025, have at least a 3.0 GPA, and be majoring in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) or a pre-med major.
Stipends provide students with room, board and travel. Students commit to
- Attending a 2 day in-person orientation at Johns Hopkins University (Sunday June 1 afternoon to Tuesday June 3 lunchtime)
- Completing pre-orientation survey.
- Completing mid-summer report (IDP) for NIH/NIDCD
- Completing surveys following their internship,
- Participating in an online forum with other STEMM-HEAR trainees and alumni to encourage each other to persevere in STEMM, and
- Doing research at one of the following labs
- Rice University - https://profiles.rice.edu/faculty/robert-raphael
- Creighton University - https://www.creighton.edu/campus-directory/steyger-peter
- University of Southern California - https://viterbi.usc.edu/directory/faculty/Goldsworthy/Raymond
- Oregon Health & Science University - https://www.ohsu.edu/people/lina-aj-reiss-phd (see also https://www.ohsu.edu/people/frederick-j-gallun-phd and https://www.linkedin.com/in/bburan)
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