Banner-ASU Neuroscience Scholars Program

Overview

Banner-ASU Neuroscience Scholars

Imagine having the opportunity to spend eight weeks working side-by-side with some of the world’s most talented scientists, clinicians and researchers in an environment devoted to neuroscientific biomedical research and clinical care.

Banner-ASU Neuroscience Scholars is a paid, eight-week training program open to top-achieving college undergraduate and graduate science and social science students. Scholars work full-time on a research project under the mentorship of a Banner Research or ASU-Biodesign scientist or clinician to unlock medical and scientific mysteries in the areas of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, in a lab or clinical setting in the Greater Phoenix metropolitan area.

Research opportunities are divided into five separate tracks:

* basic and translational neuroscience
* computational image analysis
* healthy aging research
* brain and body donation
* clinical neurodegenerative research

Each research track is correlated to a participating training facility.

As a part of the comprehensive program, Neuroscience Scholars also have an opportunity to: obtain hands-on training, attend educational seminars to boost their professional skills, learn about bioscience career options, practice scientific writing and create a scientific poster to showcase project outcomes and present their research at a concluding symposium.

Scholars are expected to commit 35-40 hours per week to the program. A stipend of $500/week for a total of $4,000 will be provided upon successful completion of the program. The overall aim is to give scholars cutting-edge experience in biomedical and clinical research.

The program capstone is a formal research symposium with mentors and institutional leaders, where scholars are required to deliver oral presentations, present project results and reflect on what they have accomplished during their tenure at Banner Research or ASU. Select students are nominated to deliver oral presentations at the event.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

* To be eligible, an applicant must:
* Be at least 18 years of age by program start date
* Be eligible to work in the United States
* Only citizens and permanent residents of the U.S. as well as residents of U.S. territories and commonwealths are eligible to apply to this program. 
* This includes citizen of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands. 
* U.S. citizens attending a foreign institution are eligible to apply. 
* Neither Banner Research nor ASU will sponsor visas for this program.
* Be a full-time college/university student during the fall semester
* Hold a GPA of 3.0 or above, Banner Research and ASU-Biodesign investigators will select applicants to interview based on individual research interests, skill sets and projects available in laboratories or clinics.
* Program participants typically have a GPA above 3.35
* Be available to work 40 hours per week during program
* Must successfully pass a background check
* There is a two-summer limit on applying for the Neuroscience Scholars program.