Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program and Retention Enhancement (PREPARE)
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The Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program provides underrepresented minority individuals who have received undergraduate degrees in science, a challenging, focused post-baccalaureate experience that will prepare them for acceptance into doctoral programs and allow them to successfully complete the program, thus obtaining their PhDs. Participants must meet the following eligibility requirements:
- Hold a bachelor s degree from a regionally accredited institution
- Have minimum 2.5 GPA on his/her last 60 undergraduate semester hours.
- Required to take the GRE (no minimum score)
- Major in the life sciences (biology, biochemistry, chemistry, biotechnology, etc.)
- Intention of pursuing a Ph.D.
- Research Experience
- $21,000 research assistant stipend
- GRE Prep course
- Study strategies assistance and tutoring
- Library and electronic research techniques
- Faculty mentors
- Research presentation skills
- Information and strategies for financial support in graduate school
- Choosing a graduate school
Core Requirements
Our Prep Program will provide core requirements for all first-year trainees, but additional activities will be added to address individual deficiencies/strengths. PREP Program Core Requirements are as follows:
- Enrollment as a research associate for at least 30 hours/week
- Weekly attendance (Fall & Spring Semesters) in either a research work-in-progress seminar or discipline specific journal club.
- Weekly attendance (Fall & Spring semesters) in an invited speaker research seminar or Grand Rounds.
- Enrollment in a biomedical ethics course
- Attendance at the health disparities and role model seminars
- Completion of a GRE preparation workshop in the first summer.
- write a paper based on the intern's research results; and
- develop a computer-assisted oral presentation and a research poster to be presented at the end of the summer program
Housing
Application
Click here to download the PDF application. You must have Adobe Reader to download the document. If you do not have Adobe Reader, you can download it free of charge at http://www.adobe.com.
Send application materials, refer any questions regarding the program, application or deadlines to:
Annie Mathew
University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
3500 Camp Bowie Boulevard
Fort Worth, Texas 76107-2699
800-511-GRAD or 817-735-0670
amathew@hsc.unt.edu
This page last updated Jun 19, 2008
