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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 ScholarsUndergraduate 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)


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/