Career Development

The UC Santa Barbara Research Mentorship Program (RMP) is seeking graduate students, postdocs, researchers, and faculty in science and engineering for a paid mentorship opportunity this summer. Mentors are paid a stipend of $1000 per student. The deadline to submit project proposals is June 10, however, they may fill project slots prior to this date.

By Vash Doshi, Graduate Peer Career
Tuesday, April 28th, 2020 - 10:15am


The UC Santa Barbara Research Mentorship Program (RMP) is seeking graduate students, postdocs, researchers, and faculty for a paid mentorship opportunity this summer.

RMP is a highly competitive, six-week summer program that engages qualified and talented high school students from all over the world in interdisciplinary and hands-on research. ​Their students are bright, motivated, and possess the desirable technical and analytical skills, as well as the requisite lab safety training, to successfully undertake university-level research.

Join ​their program as a mentor and help create an academically inspiring summer for their next generation of researchers.

Program dates: [6 weeks] June 22 - July 31 (Summer Session A)
Mentor Stipend:
• $1,000 per student mentored
• May submit up to 2 projects (up to 2 students per project for a
compensation of up to $4,000)
• Must have a hands-on component (i.e., experimental, field, numerical,
qualitative, etc.)
Deadline to Apply: June 10, 2020, however, please note that ​they may fill project slots prior to this date.

​They strongly recommend that you apply as soon as possible.

  • Due to a high volume of submissions, ​they are no longer considering projects in Humanities and Social Sciences.
  • ​They have very limited number of spots avaibale for Science and Engineering projects. Proposals will be reviewed upon submission and accepted on a case-by-case basis.

Note: Graduate students may be employed up to 100% over the summer. Mentor applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

For any questions, please email: Lina Kim or call 805-893-8950.