Off-campus Opportunities
Nearby options: Consider applying to research programs close to campus!
Look at Brookhaven National Laboratory/BNL (see Educational Programs at BNL. Consider the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships).
and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories/CSHL - Summer Undergraduate Research Program. (January 15 deadline).
Don't forget to check opportunities listed through the Career Center - on Handshake. In particular-see the new listing of Life Sciences Summer Internship program for NYC residents at: https://stonybrook.joinhandshake.com/jobs/1963287/share_preview
Have you considered REU Programs?
REUs: The National Science Foundation funds many Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) programs across the country. Search by subject area and/or location.
See also
Amgen Scholars - Undergraduate Summer Research Program (10 host universities)
The Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) listings for summer research.
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) ; ORISE
LISTING BY SUBJECT AREA
In addition, summer research opportunities include:
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
National Endowment for the Humanities
Biology/Biomedical Sciences
Amgen Scholars Program at UC Berkeley -
Boyce Thompson Institute two REU's at Cornell University campus, Ithaca, NY, summer 2025 - see HERE for more information on the program and how to apply via the NSF's ETAP portal. Plant Genome REU and Programmable Plant Systems REU through the Boyce Thompson Institute.
Caltech's AMGEN Scholars program
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington - see also Pathways program for students from underrepresented backgrounds
Howard Hughes Medical Institute - listing of programs throughout the US.
Jackson Laboratory: Academic Yr & Summer programs - Bar Harbor, Maine
Mayo Clinic Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship - Rochester, Minnesota (limited number of fellowships at Jacksonville, Florida, and
Scottsdale, Arizona locations)
MD Anderson Cancer Center (University of Texas) Summer Program in Cancer Research (SPCR)
MDI Biological Laboratory - REU program - applications due January 26, 2024
National Insitutes of Health (NIH)- summer research /biomedical program
SEA Semester at Woods Hole
Summer Medical and Dental Educational Programs - various site locations.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, Texas)- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program
SUNY Upstate Medical University - Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) - BioMedical Research Apprenticeship Program
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Summer Student Fellowships - Woods Hole, MA
**post graduate
NIH-Oxford-Cambridge Biomedical Scholars Program
Chemistry
*see REU programs, AMGEN Scholars
Earth or ocean sciences
Columbia University Lamont Summer Intern program
Economics, Finance, Computer Science, Management, Operations Research, and Data Science
Columbia Business School-Summer Research Internship program
Engineering, Computer Science; Physical and Applied Sciences
Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO)Summer Internship Program
Gas Turbine Industrial Fellowship Program - Southwest Research Insitute/US DOE
Lawrence Livermore Summer Internship Program (LLSIP)
Los Alamos National Laboratory - New Mexico
NIST-SURF program (Gaithersburg, MD)
University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), Rutgers University (Piscataway,
NJ)- RISE (Research In Science and Engineering)
Vanderbilt University - REU in Nanoscience & Nanoengineering
Virginia Tech - Interdisciplinary Water Science & Engineering REU
The Nucleus - browse summer opportunities for physics undergraduates
Natural History
Natural History Research Experiences (Smithsonian)
Sustainability
University of Wisconsin-Stout - LAKES (Linking Applied Knowledge in Environmental Sustainability) REU
General
Other useful sites to search for off-campus opportunities include:
RISE program in Germany (research experience abroad in fields of biology, chemistry, physics, earth sciences & engineering)
University of Utah’s Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) offers a Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) and is currently accepting
applications HERE for summer 2025.
See also University of California Irivine site and
the useful WebGURU site at http://www.webguru.neu.edu/index.php which offers guides to undergraduate research programs, fellowships and grants.
see also, Pathways to Science site which has a listing of summer research opportunities
Guide for women in STEM: https://www.mastersindatascience.org/blog/a-guide-for-women-in-stem-closing-the-gender-gap/
NASA supported internships, fellowships and scholarships:
http://intern.nasa.gov/
Landing a Dream Career in Stem - https://www.accreditedschoolsonline.org/resources/careers-in-stem/