Applications for Summer 2024 are now closed.

Please check back in early 2025 for details on how to apply for Summer 2025.

Questions? Email: PROPEL@uml.edu and we will get back to you.

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Eligibility

You are eligible to apply for this program if you are:

  1. Interested in learning more about STEM research.
  2. At least 16 years old at the time the internship begins.
  3. 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.