Sponsored by the University of Colorado at Boulder SUMMER RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERGRADUATES Sites that have lists of opportunities: American Mathematical Society Research Experiences for Undergraduates www.ams.org/employment/reu.html Amherst College http://www.amherst.edu/~neuro/summerresearch.html Chemistry Internet Resource for Research by Undergraduate Students http://cirrus.chem.plu.edu/ Cornell University (research experiences at Cornell) http://www.bio.cornell.edu/research/summer_research.cfm GrantsNet (for training in the biomedical sciences and undergraduate science education) http://www.grantsnet.org/ Johns Hopkins Summer Research Opportunities http://oac.med.jhmi.edu/summerresearch/index.cfm Just/Garcia/Hill Science Web Site (diversity) http://www.justgarciahill.org National Institute of General Medical Sciences (diversity) http://www.nigms.nih.gov/minority/programs.html 470 UCB Boulder, CO 80309-0470 Phone: 303-492-8230, Fax: 303-492-4916, www.colorado.edu/outreach/bsi National Institute of General Medical Sciences (all) http://www.nigms.nih.gov/funding/trngmech.html and/or http://www.nigms.nih.gov/funding/instprog.html National Science Foundation s Research Experiences for Undergraduates Programs https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/reu_contacts.jsp Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Educational & Research Experiences http://www.orau.gov/orise/edu/ornl/undergrad.htm Opportunities at the National Institutes of Health http://www.training.nih.gov/student/internship/internship.asp Syracuse University Health Professions Advisory Program http://hpap.syr.edu/spstate.htm University of Southern California http://www.usc.edu/programs/ugprograms/ugresearch/ Centralized awards that can be used at various locations: American Physiological Society Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship http://www.the-aps.org/education/ugsrf/ American Society for Microbiology http://www.asm.org/awards/index.asp?bid=14956
American Society of Plant Biologists Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships http://www.aspb.org/awards/#undergrad The Leadership Alliance s Summer Research Early Identification Program (diversity) http://www.theleadershipalliance.org/html/sreip1.htm Center for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/omh/training.htm Council on Undergraduate Research Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships http://www.cur.org/ugsf.html Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) (diversity) http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/programs/srop/ Department of Energy http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/scied/erulf/about.html Endocrine Society Summer Research Fellowships http://www.endo-society.org/awards/awardgrants/researchfellowships/summer.cfm Environmental Careers Organization http://www.eco.org Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Minority Access to Research Careers Program (MARC) Summer Research Opportunity Program http://ns2.faseb.org/marc/summer.html National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) http://education.ksc.nasa.gov/programs/usrp.htm National Institutes of Health http://www.training.nih.gov Summer Undergraduate Research Program at the University of Rochester http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/gebs/summer-list.htm United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) http://www.usda.gov/da/employ/intern.htm University of Colorado Summer Research Opportunities University of Colorado at Boulder Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering Functional Materials Science and Engineering http://www.colorado.edu/che/reu University of Colorado at Boulder Dept of Computer Science Cybersecurity Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) http://www.cs.colorado.edu/reu/ University of Colorado at Boulder Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering Environmental Engineering Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program http://civil.colorado.edu/~silverst/reu/ University of Colorado at Boulder, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program http://www.colorado.edu/eeb/eebprojects/reu/ 2
University of Colorado at Boulder Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Center Liquid Crystals Research http://flcmrc.colorado.edu/undergraduates.html University of Colorado at Boulder Physics REU https://www.colorado.edu/physics/web/reu/index.html University of Colorado at Boulder Summer Multicultural Access to Research Training Program (SMART) (diversity) http://www.colorado.edu/graduateschool/smart/smartwebsite/ University of Colorado at Boulder Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) http://www.colorado.edu/research/urop/ Other Colorado Institutions Colorado State University Undergraduate Research in Molecular Biosciences, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Program http://www.bmb.colostate.edu/reu.cfm Colorado State University Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Bioprocess Engineering http://www.engr.colostate.edu/cheme/programs/reu/index.shtml Colorado State University Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Chemistry http://franklin.chm.colostate.edu/nel/reu/ University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Summer Cancer Student Fellowship Program http://www.uchsc.edu/cancer/students/index.html University of Colorado Health Sciences Center GEMS program for minority undergraduates http://www.uchsc.edu/gems/gems.htm University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research & Science Program (SOARS) (diversity) http://www.ucar.edu/soars/ Outside of Colorado- Listed Alphabetically by State Alabama The University of Alabama, Dept. of Chemistry Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) (diversity) http://bama.ua.edu/~chem/programs/summerprogs/suurp.html Arizona Summer Medical Education Program at the University of Arizona (diversity) http://www.ahsc.arizona.edu/multiculturalaffairs/summer%20programs/mmep/index.html University of Arizona Undergraduate Biology Research Program http://www.blc.arizona.edu/ubrp/ Arkansas 3
University of Arkansas Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry http://www.uark.edu/depts/cheminfo/uarkchem/undergraduate/reu/ California California Institute of Technology, MURF Program (diversity) http://www.its.caltech.edu/~murf/index.html California State University (diversity) http://www.calstatela.edu/centers/moreprograms/ City of Hope Beckman Research Institute Summer Student Program http://bricoh.coh.org/ssp/ Keck Graduate Institute Undergraduate Research in Biotechnology and Bioengineering (diversity) http://faculty.kgi.edu/niemz/reuwebsite/reu/program.htm Sandia National Laboratories www.sandia.gov/employment/special-prog/index.html Stanford Summer Research Program in Biomedical Sciences (diversity) http://ssrp.stanford.edu University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley (SUPERB) (diversity) http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/cues/superb/index.html University of California Davis Hugh Edmonson Summer Fellowship http://som.ucdavis.edu/departments/pathology/education/fellowships/edmondson University of California, Irvine Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program (diversity) http://www.rgs.uci.edu/grad/diversity/surf.htm#top University of California, Los Angeles Research Opportunities for Undergraduate Students http://www.care.ucla.edu/ University of California, Riverside Mentoring Summer Research Internship Program (MSRIP) (diversity) http://www.graddiv.ucr.edu/msrip.html University of California San Diego MSTP Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship http://meded.ucsd.edu/mstp/surf University of California, San Francisco Summer Research Training Program http://student.ucsf.edu/summerprogram/ University of California, San Francisco http://pharmacy.ucsf.edu/pharmd/outreach/summerresearch/ University of California, Santa Cruz Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) http://www.chemistry.ucsc.edu/projects/surf/ Connecticut University of Connecticut Health Center Undergraduate Summer Research Program 4
http://grad.uchc.edu/internships/intern_intro.html University of Connecticut School of Medicine http://medicine.uchc.edu/departments/studentservices/summerprograms/index.shtml -orhttp://www.uchc.edu/hc/research.html (sometimes better to go here and scroll down to Student Research Opportunities) Yale University BioSTEP Summer Research Program (diversity) http://info.med.yale.edu/omca/programs/biostep.htm D.C. area Howard University Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Summer Research Program www.founders.howard.edu/gsas/mge National Cancer Institute Introduction to Cancer Research Careers (IRC) Program http://icrc.nci.nih.gov National Human Genome Research Institute http://www.genome.gov/10000218 National Institutes of Health/Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Summer Internship Program http://www.nih.gov/od/ors/dbeps/besip/index.htm Florida University of Florida, Whitney Lab for Marine Bioscience http://www.whitney.ufl.edu/reu/reuprogram.htm Georgia Atlanta Public Health Summer Fellowship for Minority Students (diversity) www.msm.edu/public_health/phsf/phsf_app.asp Georgia Tech/Emory Center for the Engineering of Living Tissues Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) http://www.gtec.gatech.edu/reu/index.html Medical College of Georgia Summer Training and Research (STAR) Rpogram http://www.mcg.edu/star/ Summer Undergraduate Research Program at Emory (SURE) http://www.sciencenet.emory.edu/undergrad/sure/sure.html University of Georgia, Microbiology Dept. Undergraduate Research Program http://www.uga.edu/mib/reu/index.htm University of Georgia Summer Undergraduate Fellowships in Genetics (SUNFIG) http://www.genetics.uga.edu/dept/undergradinfo.html (note: have to scroll down to program description, etc.) Illinois Northwestern University http://www.tgs.northwestern.edu/studentlife/multiculturaloffice/research/ 5
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/programs/srop/ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Hughes Undergraduate Research Fellows (HURF) Program http://www.life.uiuc.edu/hughes/hurf/ Indiana Indiana University Dept. of Biology Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) http://www.bio.indiana.edu:16080/undergrad/opportunities/index.html Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Department of Biology http://www.biology.iupui.edu/summer.html Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Department of Psychology http://psych.iupui.edu/ Iowa University of Iowa http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/biosciences/summerresearch/ Kansas University of Kansas http://www.ku.edu/~selfpro/research.shtml Kentucky University of Kentucky, Research Experiences for Undergraduates http://www.mc.uky.edu/neurobiology/sum_research.asp Louisiana Louisiana State University Undergraduate Summer Research Program http://www.biology.lsu.edu/hhmiprog/undergrad/ Maine The Jackson Laboratory http://www.jax.org/education/ssp.html Massachusetts Boston University Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (diversity) http://www.bu.edu/urop/forstudents/funds/surf/index.html Broad Genomics Institute Summer Research Program in Genomics (diversity) www.broad.mit.edu Harvard, Division of Biological Sciences (diversity) http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/sip/index.html Harvard Medical School, Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program (diversity) http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/diversity/shurpintro.html Tufts University Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences 6
http://www.tufts.edu/sackler/programs/summer.html University of Massachusetts, Amherst http://www.umass.edu/gradschool/agep/summer.html Michigan Michigan State University W.K.Kellogg Biological Station Undergraduate Summer Research Awards http://www.kbs.msu.edu/reu/index.htm University of Michigan Biological Station Research Experience for Undergraduates http://www.umich.edu/~umbs/edu/reu.html University of Michigan Summer Research Opportunity Program (diversity) http://www.rackham.umich.edu/recruitment/srop.html Minnesota American Mathematical Society & George Washington University Summer Program for Women in Mathematics www.mathcs.carleton.edu/smp/ Mayo Clinic Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program www.mayo.edu/mgs/surf.html University of Minnesota Life Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program http://www.cbs.umn.edu/main/summer_research/ Nebraska University of Nebraska, Lincoln (diversity) http://www.unl.edu/summerprogram/ University of Nebraska Medical Center http://www.unmc.edu/dept/summerresearch/index.cfm?l1_id=7&conref=5 New Mexico New Mexico State University CURE Program (diversity) http://www.fhcrc.org/science/bmrcp (search summer internships Sandia National Laboratories www.sandia.gov/employment/special-prog/index.html New York City University of New York Hunter College Center for Study of Gene Structure and Function Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) http://genecenter.hunter.cuny.edu/spurshow.asp Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Watson School of Biological Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program http://www.cshl.org/urp/ Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Internship (diversity) http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/01/06/gsas_interns.html 7
Cornell University http://www.bio.cornell.edu/research/summer03.cfm Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program http://www.sloankettering.edu/gerstner/html/54513.cfm Mount Sinai Graduate School of Biological Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) http://www.mssm.edu/gradschool/surp/index.shtml New York University School of Medicine Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) http://www.med.nyu.edu/sackler/summer.html Shoals Marine Laboratory http://www.sml.cornell.edu/research/pr-uo.htm The Rockefeller University, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program http://www.rockefeller.edu/surf/overview.php University of Rochester Medical Center http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/scrc/sumprogs.htm University of Rochester, Summer Undergraduate Research Program http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/gebs/summer.htm Stonybrook University(diversity) http://www.stonybrook.edu/agep/sri.htm North Carolina Duke University Summer Programs http://www.aas.edu/trinity/research/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dept. of Pharmacology & School of Medicine Summer Fellowship Program http://www.med.unc.edu/pharm/csfp.htm University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Summer Undergraduate Research Opportunities (SURE) Send email to sure@med.unc.edu http://www.med.unc.edu/pmbb/sure/index.htm University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Summer Pre-Graduate Research Experience (SPGRE) (diversity) www.ibiblio.org/res Ohio Case Western Reserve University Summer Program in Undergraduate Research (SPUR) http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/biol/hhmi/spur.html Kent State Univeristy Department of Psychology http://dept.kent.edu/psychology/ug/ug_research.htm University of Cincinnati Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) http://www.med.uc.edu/admissions/summerenrich.cfm 8
Oklahoma University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) http://w3.ouhsc.edu/graduate/sure_program/info.htm Oregon University of Oregon Summer Program for Undergraduate Research in the Life Sciences http://biology.uoregon.edu/spur/ Pennsylvania Carnegie Mellon Department of Biological Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program http://www.cmu.edu/bio/undergraduate/research/surp/index.shtml Penn State, Biomaterials and Bionanotechnology Summer Institute http://www.bbsi.psu.edu Thomas Jefferson University Jefferson College of Graduate Studies Summer Undergraduate Research Program http://www.jefferson.edu/jcgs/home/summer_04.cfm University of Pennsylvania Division of Medical Genetics Summer research Program for Undergraduates http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/penngen/education/05summer.html University of Pittsburgh http://www.pitt.edu/~urop/reu/index.htm University of Pittsburgh Center for Neuroscience http://cnup.neurobio.pitt.edu/undergraduate.cfm University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) www.gradbiomed.pitt.edu Penn State Undergraduate Summer Research Program in Mathematical Biology http://vortex.bd.psu.edu/~mathdept/research/reu.php3 Rhode Island University of Rhode Island Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Biomedical Sciences http://www.uri.edu/inbre/undergraduateresearch/undergraduate.html South Carolina College of Charleston Grice Marine Laboratory http://www.cofc.edu/~reu/ Medical University of South Carolina College of Graduate Studies Summer Undergraduate Research Program http://www.musc.edu/grad/summer/surp/ University of South Carolina Summer Research Institute in Experimental Psychology http://www.cas.sc.edu/psyc/psycugrad/srimain.html Tennessee Vanderbilt University Undergraduate Summer Research Program http://vusrp.vanderbilt.edu/ 9
Texas Baylor College of Medicine http://public.bcm.tmc.edu/smart/ W.M. Keck Center for Computational and Structural Biology Undergraduate Research Training Program (URTP) http://cohesion.rice.edu/centersandinst/gcc/keck_about.cfm?doc_id=3156 Rice University Summer research Programs http://rgs.rice.edu/grad/agep/apply.cfm Texas A&M University Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Biochemistry http://biochemistry.tamu.edu/?ch=reu University of North Texas (diversity) http://www.hsc.unt.edu/education/gsbs/smart.cfm University of North Texas Summer Training Among Research Scientists (STARS) Program http://www.hsc.unt.edu/education/gsbs/stars.cfm University of Texas Medical Branch Summer Undergraduate Research Program http://gsbs.utmb.edu/surp/ University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program http://www8.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/home/education/surf/index.html Utah University of Utah Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) http://www.utah.edu/gradschool/srop/srophome.dwt Virginia University of Virginia Summer Research Internship Program (SRIP) www.med.virginia.edu/srip Washington Pacific Northwest National Laboratory http://science-ed.pnl.gov/ Summer Medical Education Program at the U of Washington (diversity) www.depts.washington.edu/omca/smep University of Washington Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Undergraduate Research Summer Intern Program http://www.fhcrc.org/labs/stoddard/undergradres.html#schedule University of Washington Physics Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) http://int.phys.washington.edu/reu/ Wisconsin 10
Medical College of Wisconsin Summer Research Training Program for Minority Undergraduate Students http://www.mcw.edu/display/router.asp?docid=619#q3 University of Wisconsin, Madison Summer Research Program for Undergraduates in Biology (SRP-Bio) (diversity) http://www.wisc.edu/cbe/srp-bio/ 11