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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.

What do students tell us about their FIRE experience?

CONTACT

US

We welcome your questions at any time:

fire-office@umd.edu

JOIN
US

Recruitment for our next Fall 2025 cohort of incoming UMD students begins this coming January 2025.  Learn more.

 

TOTAL PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS
SINCE 2015:
6408

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