It’s that time of year again when NIH welcomes Summer interns participating in the 2018 NIH Summer Student program.
This competitive program gives approximately 1,200 select students the opportunity to work side by side with some of the most talented researchers, administrative staff and health professionals in an environment devoted exclusively to biomedical research.
Incoming students will be issued NIH Restricted Local Access (RLA) ID badges for physical and logical access.
The RLA badge requires the normal two appointments. During the first appointment (15 minutes), students will be identity proofed, fingerprinted and photographed. At the second appointment (15 minutes), student will be issued their RLA Badge.
Issuance is subject to DPSAC's successful review of the students' fingerprint results. Any issues identified through the fingerprint results (i.e., issues that might impact the suitability of the Summer student to do the proposed work at NIH), will be determined by Personnel Security in DPSAC prior to issuance of an RLA Badge.
Helpful tip:
DPSAC encourages all Institutes and Centers (ICs) to advise their incoming students to make their enrollment and badging appointments
as soon as possible
to avoid any delays in the ID badging process.
Get fingerprinted early
Processing badges for approximately 1,200 individuals over a six- to eight-week period can place a significant burden on the DPSAC staff. To avoid badging delays, DPSAC requests the ICs to have their Summer students fingerprinted before their first day of work at any of
NIH's Enrollment location
s.
Summer students who are fingerprinted by DPSAC at least one week prior to their first day and receive
favorable results may be issued a badge on their first day at NIH.
