Dear all, for Summer 2026, the Division of Biostatistics at the University of Minnesota will be hosting a 10-week Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), called Equitable Data Science in Adolescent Development. This 10-week REU is a paid, full-time position designed to give undergraduate students hands-on training and research experience in data science, statistical modeling and machine learning, and scientific communication. Students will analyze data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, the largest longitudinal study on adolescent development in the United States. The titles for Summer 2025's projects are below, to give you an idea of the types of projects the students can work on for Summer 2026:
- Aggregating Asian-Americans Masks Subgroup Variation in Adolescent Psychopathology
- The Impact of Early Life Adversity on Cortical Thinning
- Investigating the Role of Early Life Adversity on Risk for Substance Experimentation
- Who Defines "Typical" Brain Development? Racial Bias in Normative Modeling
Our website contains more details about the program. If you know any undergraduate students who may be interested, please share this website with them, and please encourage them to apply. The deadline for applications is 1 February 2026.
If you have any questions about this program, please let me know.
Thanks!
Mark Fiecas
mfiecas@umn.edu
University of Minnesota
