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Each student is assigned a Bioinformatics faculty mentor and a graduate student mentor. Training activities include workshops on Python and R programming; parallel and cloud computing; scientific communication skills, including creating a poster and presenting a talk; scientific ethics and responsible conduct of research; and applying to graduate school. Participants also attend bioinformatics research and career opportunities talks and enjoy a variety of social activities with bioinformatics graduate students, including tours of Boston, museum visits, evening barbecues, and casual lunches on campus.
Students receive a stipend, housing, and an allowance for meals. Travel to and from Boston University is covered as well as travel to a national, regional, or BU sponsored undergraduate research conference in the fall to present a poster describing the summer research.
The BRITE REU is sponsored by the Boston University Bioinformatics Program and the National Science Foundation NSF-REU Program to increase access to graduate programs for underrepresented minority students, with the ultimate goal of increasing diversity at the STEM professoriate level.