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  • Ten week mentored laboratory research experience with UNC faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students in the biological and biomedical sciences
  • Welcoming party and extensive orientation
  • Housing in a dorm with students in similar summer research programs
  • Workshops on applying to and interviewing for graduate school
  • Presentations by invited speakers to discuss careers and future research directions in academia, industry, and government
  • Ethics in Research Workshop
  • Informal discussion of graduate training with current graduate student and postdoc mentors.
  • Journal clubs with faculty and graduate students
  • Presentation skills workshops
  • Cohort-building activities
  • Volunteering in the community
  • Campus-wide Summer Research Symposium organized by the UNC’s Office of Graduate Education, who administer UNC’s Biological & Biomedical Sciences PhD Program (BBSP)