<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">------</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>Would you be interested in hosting a medical student who has completed their first year of med school to do 6-weeks of research in your lab? The Planetary Health Center (under UC Health) is launching a pilot program that pairs graduate students engaged in environmental/climate research with medical students to encourage collaborations to increase climate-health research on campus and provide our medical students hands-on experience with environmental research. <b>The medical student and graduate student are provided a $1500 stipend each ($3000 per pair) for participating in the program.</b> We have enough funding this year to fund about 5 pairs. <br><br>This year the internships will be embedded in the existing Summer Research and Externship Program at UCR SOM, but we hope it can eventually expand to an independent program.<br><br>If you've ever hosted a BRIDGE student (community college transfers) for a summer, it will be a similar experience to that, except the student will be a few years more advanced in educational training. The medical students would be most interested in projects related to health, but we are specifically seeking projects that intersect health and environment. <br><br><b><u>If you're open to trying it out, you would just need to submit project descriptions to this link by Feb 28th (note that you can pitch both virtual and in-person projects):</u></b><br><br><a href="https://ucriverside.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9nNpyyatEXBfxaK" target="_blank">https://ucriverside.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9nNpyyatEXBfxaK</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>Here is the booklet for the projects offered last year, which was only focused on medical research (no environmental topics):<br><br><a href="https://somsa.ucr.edu/sites/g/files/rcwecm1351/files/2021-03/summer_research_externship_program.pdf" target="_blank">https://somsa.ucr.edu/sites/g/files/rcwecm1351/files/2021-03/summer_research_externship_program.pdf</a><br><br>Please feel free to forward this to whomever you think would be interested. Let me know if you have any questions.<br><br>Best,<br>sam<br></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><i>Sam Ying (<a href="https://www.mypronouns.org/ze-hir" target="_blank">ze/zir</a>/any)</i></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><i>Assistant Professor<br></i><div><br></div><div><i>The Dirty LabĀ </i></div><div><i>Soil Biogeochemistry@UCR</i></div><div><i><a href="http://ucrsoils.weebly.com/" target="_blank">ucrsoils.weebly.com</a></i></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><i>University of California, Riverside</i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dr. Sydney I. Glassman</div>Assistant Professor</div><div dir="ltr">Microbiology and Plant Pathology<div>University of California, Riverside</div><div>Boyce Hall 3407<br></div><div>(951) 827-6727</div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/sydneyg" target="_blank">https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/sydneyg</a></span></div></div></div></div></div>