CBCB Announces Illumina Support for Summer Internship Program

The Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB) today announced that Illumina will provide financial support to its summer internship program (http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/summer-internships).

The goal of the summer internship program is to provide hands-on research experience in bioinformatics to talented undergraduate students as part of ongoing research projects within the CBCB. The program involves full-time research in addition to the expectation for students to participate in broader research activities at CBCB. At the conclusion of the summer internship, each student prepares a report outlining the results of the project and gives a presentation at the center’s “Research in Progress” series describing their work, thus additionally helping students improve their presentation skills.

We are especially proud to announce that one of our interns from 2013 – Emily Jones, won the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship award, based on her summer project, which was in part supported by Illumina. See (https://www.cs.umd.edu/article/2014/04/emily-jones-and-matt-mccutchen-aw...) for the full story.

“We are thrilled to have Illumina’s conitued support for this important program,” said Dr. Sridhar Hannenhalli, Director of the CBCB summer internship program. “Not only will this provide unique exposure to the field of bioinformatics to talented undergraduates, it will also excite them about the unique career opportunities in this important field. We hope to expand this partnership in future.” added Dr. Hannenhalli.