Promoting Underrepresented Minorities Advancing in the Sciences (PUMAS) Summer Internship

The Promoting Underrepresented Minorities Advancing in the Sciences (PUMAS) summer internship program aims to provide historically underrepresented community college students with lab experience before they transfer to a 4-year institution to pursue a bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM).

​Due date: March 12, 2021

To be eligible, you must:

• Be a United States citizen or permanent resident.
• Be currently enrolled as a community college student who is planning to transfer to a 4-year institution to pursue a bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM).
• Have successfully completed at least two semesters of college-level science courses with a lab component (chemistry and molecular biology preferred, but not required), before the start of the PUMAS internship.
• Have a minimum cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 2.50.
• Prior research experience is not required but applicants with prior research experience in a lab or bioinformatics will be given priority.

Selected participants are paid minimum wage ($16.07/hour) and work part-time (20–25 hours per week).
The dates for the 2021 PUMAS internship program are tentatively from Thursday, July 1, 2021, to Friday, September 10, 2021, but interns will only need to commit to an 8-week period during this time frame.
The internship will take place at Gladstone Institutes, located at 1650 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158. Some aspects of the program may be held remotely depending on the status of the COVID-19 pandemic.

LINK: https://gladstone.org/training/pumas-summer-internship-program