Research Opportunities for Students with Disabilities

The Utah Center for Excellence in ELSI Research (UCEER) runs the GURU Program, a one-of-a-kind program designed to give U students who identify as having a disability (visible or invisible) the opportunity to join a research team that investigates the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomic science and genomic medicine.

Join GURU! As part of the GURU Program, you could do things like study how parents who learn they will have a child with Down syndrome convey that news to family and friends, help develop a comic book to enhance literacy about genetic testing, apply techniques from theater to assist doctors with communicating difficult news.

2 undergraduate students will be selected each year. The students will be:  

• Paired with a faculty researcher and paid $10/hour (for up to 150 hours/semester).
• Provided $1220/year to support travel to an academic conference.
• Placed in a mentorship network with multiple mentors, at least one of whom will be a faculty member who identifies as having a disability.
• Offered the opportunity to take courses focusing on the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomic research and medicine, and provided resources to take a GRE test-prep course.

Apply Here: https://redcap01.brisc.utah.edu/nursing/redcap/surveys/?s=NM48PETNJW.

Deadline for application: January 22, 2021

For additional information about the GURU Program and affiliated projects, see: http://uofuhealth.utah.edu/uceer/guru1.php.

 

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