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Neuroscience Undergraduate Summer Research Grant NOT AVAILABLE

Neuroscience Undergraduate Summer Research Grants will not be offered in 2025

We are accepting applications for Neuroscience Undergraduate Summer Research Grant. Proposals will be funded at $4000 for 8 weeks full-time summer research in a Northwestern University laboratory on a neuroscience topic. Only declared Neuroscience majors who will graduate no earlier than fall 2025 are eligible. No outside work or classes are permitted during the grant award period and no travel is funded.

 

The ~2 page single-spaced research proposal should be in .pdf format only and should include the following sections.

Research

Personal

If you applied to SURG or WCAS for summer funds, you may submit the same or an amended version to Neuroscience but multiple awards are not permitted.

In addition to this proposal, the faculty mentor (not the post-doc or grad student) should send an email directly to neuroscience@u.northwestern.edu  with the following:

A statement accepting primary responsibility as the student’s mentor, including supporting their intellectual development as a scientist, providing timely feedback on student’s writing, and ensuring the student presents their work at lab meeting or a similar venue.