The Quantitative Life Sciences Initiative, in partnership with the Office of Research and Economic Development, is offering summer support for graduate students who may have lost anticipated funding for the summer due to the current pandemic.
Eligible students must be enrolled full time and pursuing study in some combination of the life and data sciences. This could be in any of a number of areas including (but not limited to):
- computational biology
- bioinformatics
- statistical genetics
- phenotyping or genome-to-phenome
- AI and biology
- metagenomics/microbiome
- mathematics/statistics/modeling in biology or ecology
Students from ANY graduate program at UNL (as long as they are working in one of the areas listed above) are eligible for support. First priority will go to students pursuing a doctoral degree who have completed at least one year of doctoral study. Applications must contain:
- Description of their research or field of study (limit of 200 words);
- Name, department and email address for current advisor(s);
- Expected graduation date;
- Description of amount of time or funding that was lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic (internship, grant funding, summer job, etc.);
- Letter from advisor(s) describing the need for funding support; and
- Plans for what will be achieved with this funding (data collection, data analysis, manuscript preparation/revision, preparation/submission of grant proposal, new curricula development, etc.).
Applications lacking any of the above information will be deemed nonresponsive and will not be considered for funding. Applications must be submitted and routed through NuRamp by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 5.
To access the application go to https://nuramp.nebraska.edu/login and click on "Add new IC Application." This opportunity (QLSI Summer Graduate Student Support—COVID-19) should be listed in the drop down menu of open competitions.
Questions about this opportunity should be directly to Jennifer Clarke at jclarke3@unl.edu or Deb Hamernik at dhamernik2@unl.edu
More details at: https://nuramp.nebraska.edu/login