Eileen Jaffe, PhD

Professor Program Director

Eileen.Jaffe@fccc.edu  215-728-3695

2010 FCCC Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship

Summer Students Discover Mentored Research Experiences

Funding Supplemented by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

With the end of the college academic year Fox Chase gets an annual influx of talented undergraduates for summer research experiences.  This successful program, coordinated by Dr. Eileen Jaffe, invites students to find a Fox Chase mentor and have that mentor nominate the student for a funded summer research fellowship. In 2010, 15 students had funded projects.

Student	Sponsor
Banskota, Samagya Penn State University	Andrew Godwin, PhD
Bus, Kathryn Hobart and William Smith College	Alana O’Reilly, PhD
Duffy, Erin Syracuse University	Roland Dunbrack, PhD
Fisher, Steven George Washington University	Igor Astsaturov, MD, PhD
Frick, Melissa Swarthmore College	Matt Robinson, PhD
Granatt, Ben Penn State University	Rosalia Viterbo, MD
Henderson, Adam Brown University	Ann Skalka, PhD
Hu, Angela Johns Hopkins University	Luis Sigal, PhD
Koch, Jennifer James Madison University	Jon Chernoff, PhD
Kolander, Samuel Washington University, St. Louis	Eileen Jaffe, PhD
Myint, Leslie Johns Hopkins University	Warren Kruger, PhD
Nadkarni, Renu Swarthmore College	Andrea Barsevick, PhD, RN, OCN
Parise, Erica Ohio Wesleyan University	Erica Golemis, PhD
Pease, Elizabeth Ohio Wesleyan University	Elizabeth Hopper-Borge, PhD
Rowen, Brianne Juniata College	Angela Bradbury, MD
Sha, Han Queen's University	Randy Hardy, PhD
Singleton, Courtney Harvard University	David Wiest, PhD

This year the supplemental funding to the National Institutes of Health from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (also known as the “Stimulus Package”) has helped increase the number of students Fox Chase can support. 

In addition to the Fellowship program

There are two alternate ways for undergraduate students to be involved in summer research. The student can volunteer or the student can be hired as a summer assistant. Students are highly encouraged to review the research areas and contact faculty whose research interests them. In general students are more successful at finding positions by contacting faculty directly. Some students do however gain summer laboratory opportunities through the volunteer office or through human resources.