The Summer Undergraduate Research Training (SMART) Program provides frontier-level, biomedical summer research projects for undergraduates in a supportive environment with supplemental educational activities.
Your position is a real job, with a compensation package of approximately $5,000 for nine weeks. Depending on the funding source, your compensation will be all salary or a combination of salary and allocation for housing or travel. In addition to everything you learn about science through research, daily seminars, discussion groups, and extra activities; the experience of getting to know the other participants and people here at Baylor College of Medicine is extraordinary.
We welcome students from all science and math majors, and even non-science majors with appropriate background and interest. Projects span the spectrum of biomedical science, including projects in bioengineering and computational biology.
Our program has gained nationwide recognition from students, their advisers, and granting agencies as one of the most successful ever created due to our incomparable resources in the Texas Medical Center and people who truly believe in opening doors of opportunity to college students.
Non-U.S. Citizen Applicants
Prior to accepting an offer for a position in the SMART Program, all Non-U.S. citizens must contact the Baylor International Services Office (ISO) and communicate with one of the ISO representatives at (713) 798-4604 or InternationalServicesTeam@bcm.edu. Non-U.S. citizens will be required to submit a copy of the work authorization or an I-20 endorsed with curricular practical training (CPT) from the sponsoring school. U.S. permanent residents, will need to submit a copy of the permanent resident card, commonly called a "green card."
If you do not contact the International Services Office or you are unable to provide proof of your work authorization, the offer will be withdrawn.