Fearless research drives fearless career readiness.
Our Mission
FIRE provides first-year UMD students with an inclusive
faculty-mentored research experience that drives accelerated career readiness and opportunity.
Research Experience
Our students use authentic tools of the trade to attack broadly relevant research objectives. Outcomes are uncertain in a manner that allows students to thrive through challenge.
Career
Readiness
Fearless research drives fearless career readiness: our students develop communication, critical thinking, equity and inclusion, leadership, professionalism, and teamwork traits that employers are seeking.
Opportunity
The research experience and career readiness FIRE provides help students have experience and qualifications to pursue internship and at-graduation opportunities with confidence.
How it Works
Learn more about the FIRE program and its many benefits for participating students.
FIRE operates 16 different research streams enabling more than 600 new University of Maryland students each year to thrive in a variety of environments.
Kasey Goon
Kasey Goon is a member of FIRE Environmental Pathogens. She told us "The connections I've made with other FIRE members are just as valuable as the incredible amount of knowledge I've gained from the program."
Aidan Strother
Aidan Strother was a member of FIRE Terrapin Genome Project. She said "FIRE has not only taught me how to be a great researcher - it has allowed me to be that researcher."
Gabe Castro
Gabe Castro was a member of FIRE Sustainability Analytics. He shared "FIRE has allowed me to form friendships with some of the most dedicated and intelligent students I’ve come across at College Park."
Michele Keumeni
Michele Keumeni was a member of FIRE Antibiotic Resistance. She said "As an aspiring surgeon, this lab gave me an opportunity to conduct truly hands on laboratory research which was hard to find as an incoming freshman."
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Recruitment for our next Fall 2024 cohort of incoming UMD students begins this coming January 2024. Learn more.
