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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Undergraduate Scholarship Program (UGSP) offers competitive scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds who are committed to careers in biomedical, behavioral, and social science health-related research. The program offers: scholarship support, paid research training at the NIH during the summer, and paid employment and training at the NIH after graduation. For each full or partial scholarship year, you are committed to two NIH service obligations. The obligations themselves are benefits of the UGSP providing you with invaluable research training and experience at the NIH. This includes a 10-week Summer Laboratory Experience. After each year of scholarship support, you will train for 10 weeks as a paid summer research employee in an NIH research laboratory. This employment occurs after the receipt of the scholarship award. Each scholar will be assigned to an NIH researcher and an NIH post-doctoral fellow, who will serve as mentors. You will also attend formal seminars and participate in a variety of programs.