Summer Undergraduate Research (SUR) Programme

Contact email: sur@unil.ch

    Aerial view of the campus

Participants 2013

Ms. Laura Alvarez Lorenzana, Imperial College London, UK
Ms. Claire Cooper, Columbia University, USA
Mr. Kaisar Dauyey, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Ms. Mirjana Gušić, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Ms. Lina Maria Jaime Tobon, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Ms. Carina Leotsakou Macdonald, University of Dundee, UK
Ms. Aline Cristina Marino do Nascimento, Federal University of Acre, Brazil
Ms. Roxana Micut, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania
Mr. Usama Mukhtar, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
Ms. Aparna Pandey, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
Mr. Richard Park, Brown University, USA
Ms. Savita Rani, Queen's University, Canada
Ms. María Constanza Sadino Riquelme, Universidad de Chile
Ms. Irene Sánchez-Pascual, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Ms. Lara Seidman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), USA
Mr. Zaiyue Shu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Ms. Darja Stojanovová, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Mr. Nilay Taneja, Dr. D. Y. Patil Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Institute, India
Ms. Hélène Tubeuf, University of Rouen, France
Ms. Beatrice Tyrrell, University of Cambridge, USA
 

Few entering university students have had significant experience with research into the unknown. Initial university courses provide descriptions of fundamental processes that are well established, indeed “in the textbooks”. The first opportunity to do research at the edge of the unknown can be a life changing experience that is remembered for the rest of one’s life. The school of Biology of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine at the University of Lausanne proposes a Summer Undergraduate Research (SUR) Programme for the uninitiated to obtain that first experience.

This programme will host 20 Bachelor (first university degree) students with both biological and medical studies background from around the world (including 1-2 from Lausanne) for and 8-week sojourn. Each participant will perform an individual research project in a different laboratory of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine. This programme aims to attract outstanding motivated students from near and far for a research experience that for many remain with them for their lifetimes.
 

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