2025 Summer Scholar Research Program Application

Required Dates: Orientation May 19-21, Research Day: September 11


The Veterinary Scholars Symposium (August 6-10) is required for some. If your funding mechanism requires you to attend, you will be advised at the time of matching. If you are unable to attend the Symposium dates, please indicate this in the application.

13 Week Program runs 5/19-8/13, Required attendance dates include Orientation (May 19-21) and Research Day (9/11)


Note: Attendance on “Required Dates” listed above and on the program website is mandatory for participation in the program. This program is a full-time stipend. Any vacation time beyond one week, or outside work which does not allow the participant to work full-time for this program, will not be allowed. If you are notified by one of the faculty facilitating this program that you have been matched with a participating faculty mentor, you agree that once you accept this spot in the program, you will complete the 13-week project and fully participate in the Summer Scholar Research Program.


Abstracts may be found here: https://vetmed.iastate.edu/research-grad-studies/student-research-opportunities/summer-research-program

Please include the address at which you expect to live at the beginning of the program.

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Only check this box if you have completed all graduate college paperwork and have been accepted into the CVM concurrent degree program. If you have questions whether you are currently a concurrent student, please email Katie Baber-Dillavou (baberk@iastate.edu)

Please indicate your availability/interest in attending the Veterinary Scholars Symposium, August 6-10

The symposium this year will be in Spokane, WA. Dates, including air travel, will be August 6-10, 2025.


Indication of availability or interest does not guarantee a trip to the symposium, nor does it affect your likelihood of being selected for the Summer Scholar Research Program.


Certain funding sources provide travel funds and those funding sources may be restricted to certain types of projects. At the time of application, we can't guarantee which projects will be funded by sources with travel funds.

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You may list any additional projects here. Please list in order of preference., separated by a semi-colon

Mean Months of Prior, Full-Time Research Experience. For many individuals, this value will reflect months of summer research experience or full-time research experience following college. For those with part-time, academic-year research experience for academic credit, convert the part-time experience to full-time for reporting here (e.g., 15 hours/week for 8 months = 3 months). Do not include labs associated with a course (e.g. organic chemistry course with lab).

Please indicate how likely you are to choose a career that includes research.*
Please indicate your citizenship*

This is required as certain funding sources are restricted to US Citizens only. This does not affect your likelihood to be accepted into the program.

This question does not affect your likelihood to be accepted into the program, it is intended to provide metrics required for one of our funding sources (NIH T-35.)


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If you have problems, you may also email this file to kbarker@iastate.edu

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