The Green Fellows Program, a collaborative initiative between UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and The University of Texas at Dallas, provides a semester-long, paid research fellowship for undergraduate students at UT Dallas. The program is most appropriate for students interested in pursuing PhD or MD/PhD pathways after graduation. There is also a new track available to Southern Methodist University students majoring in biophysics or chemistry.

Green Fellows pursue individual research projects under the direction of graduate school faculty at UT Southwestern. Fellows are selected by the faculty mentors and assigned to a research project according to each fellow’s previous training and research interests.

Green Fellows gain experience in modern research techniques, and plan and execute an experimental strategy to answer a scientific question. The program introduces students to the kinds of projects encountered during postgraduate research training and fosters an understanding of the planning, discipline and teamwork involved in the pursuit of answers to current questions in the biological sciences.

At the end of the semester, Green Fellows will present their research in a research forum. In addition to intensive research, Green Fellows attend lectures and seminars on the UT Southwestern campus.

Fellowships are available in the areas of:

• Biological chemistry
• Biomedical engineering
• Biophysics
• Cancer biology
• Cell biology
• Computational biology
• Developmental biology
• Genetics
• Immunology
• Molecular biology
• Molecular biophysics
• Microbiology
• Neuroscience
• Organic chemistry