MESA/MPS/UndocuSTEM

Hello MESA/MPS/UndocuSTEM students! Welcome to the Winter quarter! Hope everyone has a great start! If you are new here, welcome and checkout the latest events as well as numerous opportunities for internships and programs! You definitely do not want to miss it!

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Come with us to CSU East Bay Showcase for the campus tour, networking lunch, CSUEB student panel and department showcase.

Date: Friday, 31 January 2024

Time: 10:00 AM-3PM

RSVP Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzOCssMecLorQ3fwbqqaCGRgimIDwhUbtOr_GRNRRLBN4CNA/viewform

This in-person conference brings together medical students, professionals, and exhibitors to explore topics of inclusion and belonging in the healthcare field. Organized by the Stanford Underrepresented Minority Medical Alliance (SUMMA), this event features contributions from diverse student associations, such as the Latino Medical Student Association, LGBTQ-Meds, and the Student National Medical Association.

Date: Saturday, February 8, 2025

Location: Stanford Medical School

Registration Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfM53J5UF8slXkaoeBQjsJWru7U-NEubZbOn-vG2vmTxqjoFw/viewform

For more information: https://med.stanford.edu/odme/pre-med-students/summa-prehealth-conference.html

Join us at the WiE Innovation Conference 2025, where emerging technologies and career advancement intersect. This full-day conference will inspire and empower you for success in today’s tech-driven world.

Date: 15 March, 2025

Time: 7:30 AM - 7:00PM

Location: San Jose State University, Student Union

Registration Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsgEMDK9cJLWzOwdwDobbwx7vXcFsW8GW9XCd_pCAHwH3mRA/viewform

For more information: https://2025.siliconvalleywie.org/

Join us for an inspiring and informative student panel featuring a diverse group of successful community college transfer students now thriving at Stanford University. Discover how they navigated the transfer process, overcame challenges, and maximized their resources to excel academically and personally.

Date: Friday, January 24, 2025

Time: 3:30pm-5pm PST

Via Zoom/Online

Zoom Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1F0rKHQeTk-5ndHGtPbZKg#/registration

For more information: https://premedcc.org/courses/fri-jan-24-2025-pathways-to-excellence-community-college-to-stanford-a-transfer-success-student-panel/

Discover how to take your pre-med journey to the next level with Stanford’s prestigious summer programs and leadership opportunities. This is your chance to hear directly from a trusted source, not second-hand or misinformed individuals, about what it takes to succeed in competitive medical school applications.

Date: Friday, January 24, 2025,

Time: 5pm-6:30pm PST

Via Zoom/Online

Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_svINuZeURzCX1lWmPvC7RQ#/registration

For more information: https://premedcc.org/courses/fri-jan-24-2025-from-community-college-to-stanford-summer-leadership-learning-opportunities-for-aspiring-pre-med-stem-students/

This is your opportunity to hear directly from someone who has worked at prestigious institutions like UC Berkeley, Stanford, and the UC Davis School of Medicine. Avoid the pitfalls of relying on second-hand or misinformed advice—come and ask your questions and get answers from someone who truly understands the medical school admissions process.

Date: Saturday, January 25, 2025,

Time: 10am-11:30am PST

Zoom/Online

Registration Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eoVwIrM2RBCivJvDf3gbkg#/registration

For more information: https://premedcc.org/courses/sat-jan-25-2025-breaking-barriers-debunking-the-top-10-premed-myths-and-how-to-overcome-them/

This internship offers a holistic curriculum designed to provide underrepresented minority undergraduate students from San Francisco Bay Area schools with the tools and experiences necessary to pursue careers in cancer research. Its overarching goal is to provide hands-on lab experience to non-Stanford undergraduates interested in further exploring cancer-related career tracks. This is a ten-week, in-person program funded by the American Cancer Society.

Program dates: June 30 - September 8, 2025

Informational sessions:

January 10, 2025 (4 pm PT): https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/ThxZaIe2SkOKKELfQz1ugA__;!!A-B3JKCz!H61Gc21SpAOmKU7tkuxoJnD1uqGdrCHC6xsVE6j62AdqRNjbnibQ25VqLYMoqeZHK2fXI3oNXjuEkxGjnkjPD9Hz5Q$

January 13, 2025 (10 am PT): https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/y27kByJ3RtWdsjJME_38A__;!!A-B3JKCz!H61Gc21SpAOmKU7tkuxoJnD1uqGdrCHC6xsVE6j62AdqRNjbnibQ25VqLYMoqeZHK2fXI3oNXjuEkxGjnkiipSxjLA$

Application deadline: February 24, 2025

For more information: https://med.stanford.edu/cancer/education/high-school-undergrad/stanford-acs-dicr.html

The Department of Radiation Oncology in the Stanford School of Medicine will be hosting a virtual information session on careers in radiation oncology geared towards pre-med and STEM students at high schools, community colleges, and universities in the Bay Area and beyond

Date: Monday, 13 Jan 2025

Time: 4PM-5PM

Via Zoom

Registration Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqcOurpjMtG9cK3jwgRF78L65vazy3tvC7%C2%A0#/registration

For more information: https://events.stanford.edu/event/2025-stem-careers-in-radiation-oncology

SSI is a ten-week paid (nine weeks in person) research internship at our state-of-the-art research facility and museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. This world-renowned venue offers undergraduates important insights into the contributions that museum-based research can make to issues facing society today by providing them the opportunity to do museum-based research for the summer.

Applications for the Summer of 2025 are open now and are due at 11:59 pm (Eastern Time) on January 31, 2025.

Application Link: https://etap.nsf.gov/award/2773/opportunity/9806

For more information: https://www.calacademy.org/summer-systematics-institute

C-GEM is seeking to expand the chemistry of the proteome, and projects span the chemistry-biology interface, including projects in organic synthesis, mass spectrometry, directed evolution, and structural biology. The program provides housing and board, a generous stipend, and support for travel to and from the research site.

The deadline for applying is February 1, 2025 at 11:59pm PT.

Application Form: https://form.jotform.com/242207440521141

Info Session Registration Form: https://airtable.com/app4qAIy71wReoPDS/paguMgIHZTYUdyMoR/form

For more information: https://gem-net.net/join/undergrads/

The Quantum Foundry internship program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and hosted at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) is currently recruiting undergraduates. The Quantum Foundry is a next-generation materials foundry that develops materials and interfaces hosting the coherent quantum states needed to power the coming age of quantum-based electronics.

The deadline to complete the online application is Sunday, February 9, 2025.

Application Form: https://portals.csep.ucsb.edu/apply/training/application.php?Program=QF&Term=M25

For more information: https://quantumfoundry.ucsb.edu/

The Department of Physics at UC Merced will host an NSF REU program in summer 2025 pending renewal through the National Science Foundation. Projects will span a range of subfields in physics, both experimental and theoretical, including biophysics; condensed matter and solar energy; atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum optics; nonlinear dynamics; soft condensed matter; and astrophysics.

REU dates: June 2 - August 8, 2025

Application date: Feb. 17, 2025 initial review date and accepted until positions are filled.

Application Link: https://etap.nsf.gov/award/7606/opportunity/10361

For more information: https://physics.ucmerced.edu/PhysicsREU

The VA Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS) and the Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research (PAVIR) are pleased to announce the inaugural VA-PAVIR Summer Research Program for Undergraduate Students. This eight-week summer research program is designed to stimulate and expand research interests in undergraduate students considering a career in research.

Application deadline: 30 January 2025

For more information: https://pavir.org/what-we-do/featured-projects/va-pavir-summer-research-program/

ISB, an internationally renowned non-profit research institute in Seattle, Washington, is dedicated to studying and applying systems biology to unravel biological complexity. The institute aims to decipher vast amounts of data to gain valuable insights and achieve breakthroughs across scientific disciplines.

Summer 2025 - Preliminary Application Open December 5 - January 21

Direct link to the application: https://etap.nsf.gov/award/448/opportunity/10258

For more information: https://isbscience.org/careers/internships/summer-undergraduate-research-experiences-program/

Stanford's Pre-Renal Initiative seeks to develop a thriving research training program in adult and pediatric nephrology and (benign) urology for undergraduate students with varying backgrounds. During the 10-week summer program, students work full-time in the labs of Pre-Renal Faculty Mentors.

Application deadline: 15 January, 2025

Application Process: https://med.stanford.edu/nephrology/education/prerenal/apply-now.html

The Stanford Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) is offering a 10-week Summer Research Program in Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Medicine for Undergraduate and Medical students. Summer research students will have the opportunity to work on an independent research project in the labs of Stanford faculty.

Deadline: January 10th, 2025

Submit your application here: https://stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aV4hjxM6SuopTFQ

For more information: https://med.stanford.edu/cvi/education/cvi-summer-research-program.html

The LCLS has a well-established, paid 10-week summer internship program for undergraduate and graduate students looking for internship opportunities. Depending on the area of interest, intern projects may focus more on the research or development side of LCLS, involving students in hands-on laboratory projects, programming and data analysis, and/or some combination of the two.

Application Deadline: 02/10/2025

For more information: https://lcls.slac.stanford.edu/internships

A community of support for transfer student intending computing majors!

Email Sign-up link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWRMQhCLPyNfSv1ComPBKD0j_U_9y8W9CP_P9bMmiuuK4wgQ/viewform

Are you a community college student interested in research and eventually pursuing a PhD? The research opportunities in all areas of physics and astronomy, computer science and engineering, and mathematics are available through the Cal Bridge Scholars Program.

Deadline for summer programs: February 1, 2025

For more information: https://calbridge.org/

Our shared goal through this program is to help exceptional young people find the challenges, excitement, and immense rewards that a career in healthcare and biomedical research provides.

Application deadline: 30 April 2025

For more information: https://plasticsurgery.stanford.edu/research/stars.html

This dynamic summer program allows you to apply your classroom knowledge by working in a laboratory under the supervision of a principal investigator and interacting with research teams that include graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

Deadline to Apply: January 31, 2025

For more information: https://research.sanfordhealth.org/academic-programs/undergraduates/spur

The Cellular and Molecular Biology of Stress Summer Research Program at University of Wisconsin–Madison provides immersive, full-time bioscience research and professional development for undergraduate students as they prepare for graduate school and research careers in biology.

Deadline to Apply: February 15, 2025

For more information: https://wiscience.wisc.edu/research/srp/

The projects are designed to give participants a sense of the contributions that physical scientists can make to biological problems and the contributions that biologists can make to physical problems. The focus is on cross-disciplinary training.

Deadline to Apply: February 15, 2025

For more information: https://www.clemson.edu/science/academics/departments/physics/research/bio-reu.html

Participants will spend 10 weeks with UConn faculty and graduate students, participating in graduate level research projects on project related to water, power, or transportation infrastructure.

Deadline to Apply: March 15, 2025

For more information: https://neurodiverse-reu.programs.uconn.edu/overview/

Looking for potential Internship opportunities? Check out these websites

• REU Finder for STEM undergraduates
• STEM Community College Resource

Transfer Center Website