Applications for Summer 2025 are due by March 7, 2025.
Read the 2025 PROPEL Application Instructions and fill out the 2025 PROPEL Summer Research Internship Application Form.
Questions? Email: PROPEL@uml.edu and we will get back to you.

Eligibility
You are eligible to apply for this program if you are:
- Interested in learning more about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) research.
- At least 16 years old at the time the internship begins.
- Enrolled in or have recently graduated (not more than two calendar years prior or currently attending college) from a school that meets at least one of the following descriptions:
- a. Vocational technical high school as determined by Chapter 74 of the General Laws of Massachusetts or a comprehensive public high school with a life sciences Chapter 74 program.
- b. Public high school (including charter) located in one of the following “Gateway Cities” as determined by Section 3A of Chapter 23A of the General Laws of Massachusetts: Attleboro, Barnstable, Brockton, Chelsea, Chicopee, Everett, Fall River, Fitchburg, Haverhill, Holyoke, Lawrence, Leominster, Lowell, Lynn, Malden, Methuen, New Bedford, Peabody, Pittsfield, Quincy, Revere, Salem, Springfield, Taunton, and Westfield, and Worcester.
- c. Public high school (including charter) with a student population of at least 25 percent classified as “low income” by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.