SURF's up for Deena Snoke this Summer

SURFing can be pretty competitive, especially when SURF stands for the Summer Undergraduate Fellowship program at Dartmouth this summer, and you’re competing against 300 top students across the country for one of 6-8 spots. Those spots provide research experience in the laboratory of one of Dartmouth’s principal investigators in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program.

When KSC sophomore Deena Snoke mentioned to Prof. Susan Whittemore that she was looking for an internship this summer, Dr. Whittemore suggested she apply for the SURF program at Dartmouth. Snoke did, and got a spot! She’ll be be doing research in a neurobiology lab.

“I know that I will return with ideas that I will be able to apply in the lab and share with my peers here at KSC, and I can’t wait to learn from the distinguished faculty at Dartmouth College. Overall, I am so excited to be attending and representing Keene State College at the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship,” Snoke, a member of Beta Beta Beta (the national biological honors society) and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, said.

The program offers a number of career-development activities, including a free Kaplan GRE prep course and a chance to interact with members of our admissions committee and Dartmouth graduate students. It also includes a stipend, a free room, and a food allowance.