Blanchard Research
Group

Learn through doing

As a University of Massachusetts undergraduate student you have an opportunity to gain practical training in some outstanding research laboratories. Our research group has help train students from the Microbiology, Chemistry, Biology and Computer Science Departments. They have gone onto positions at the Harvard Medical School and Baystate Hospital and have been accepted in PhD programs at the University of Michigan and Dartmouth University.

Great Expectations

We have limited space in our research laboratory, but we invite students serious

about learning molecular biology, genomic and bioinformatics methods to stop by the laboratory or send us email. We expect students to have professional work ethics and by the spring semester of their junior year to write research proposals that define and possibly fund their senior research projects.

Funding Opportunities for Undergraduate Scientists

Undergraduates in our research group have been supported by grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Life Science Junior Fellows Program and the UMass Commonwealth College. There are also many other programs on campus and in the area that support Undergraduates working on research projects.