Summer Internships
Co-op/Internships and Summer Research Opportunities in the Life Sciences
Rochester Institute of Technology provides a list of University-Based Research Positions. These are especially useful for students who want to explore research careers and/or graduate school.
Why Participate in a Summer Research Experience?
Participating in a summer research program has many benefits, summarized in the following publication: From Summer Research Participant to Graduate School Contender
Listed below are many undergraduate summer research fellowships. Included are:
- Multiple Program Search Tool
- One Application, Multiple Schools
- Government Programs
- Industry / Private Institutions / Societies Programs
- Individual University Programs
- Programs Specifically for Pre-MD/PhD-MSTP students
To search on your own, Google the word "research" and add in one of the following acronyms: REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates); SROP (Summer Research Opportunities Program), SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships), SURP (Summer Undergraduate Research Program), and MURF (Minority Undergraduate Research Fellowships).
Multiple Program Search Tool
- AAMC: Summer Undergraduate Research Programs
- American Psychological Association: Undergraduate Research Opportunities & Internships
- NSF: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
- Pathways to Science: Fully Funded STEM Programs ☆ STEM Graduate Programs ☆ STEM Undergraduate Programs
[** video on how to use advanced search page to narrow search results **] - REU Finder: Freshmen ☆ International Students
- RIT: Co-op/Internships and Summer Research Opportunities with Private Companies - somewhat out of date list; use it to hunt down individual industry internships/co-ops
(note: for these we'd work to turn your CV into a resumé) - University of California at Berkeley: Undergraduate Research Programs - HUGE LIST!!
One Application, Multiple Schools
- Big Ten Academic Alliance: Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP)
- Leadership Alliance: Summer Research Early Identification Program (SR-EIP)
Government Programs
- Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL): Repperger Research Intern Program
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL): Student Research Participation Program ☆ Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI)
- Department of Energy (DOE): MSIPP Internships ☆ Scholars Program
- Center for Disease Control (CDC): Fellowships and internships
- Homeland Security: Summer Internship Program
- National Institutes of Health (NIH): The Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) ☆ NIDA Summer Research Internship Program ☆ Short-Term Research Experience for Underrepresented Persons (STEP-UP) ☆ Summer Internship Program (SIP) ☆ Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP)
- National Science Foundation (NSF): Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
- National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI): Summer Apprenticeship Program
- Naval Research Laboratory (NRL): Research Program for HBCU/MI/TCU Undergraduates and Graduates
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL): HBCU/MEI Faculty Summer Research Program
- Smithsonian Institution: Minority Awards Program-Internship ☆ National Air and Space Museum Summer Internship Program ☆ James E. Webb Internship
Industry / Private Institutions / Societies Programs
- American Society for Investigative Pathology: Summer Research Opportunity Program in Pathology (SROPP)
- Amgen Foundation: Amgen Scholars Program
- Biophysical Society: Summer Research Program in Biophysics
- The Endocrine Society: Summer Research Fellowship Program
- The Jackson Laboratory: Summer Student Program
- Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR): Internships
- Sanford Research: Sanford Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR)
- Seattle Children's Research Institute: SCRI Summer Scholars Program (SSSP)
- Texas Biomedical Research Institute: Summer Internships for Graduate and Undergraduate Students
Individual University Programs
- Baylor College of Medicine: Summer Medical and Research Training Program (SMART)
- Boston University: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
- California State University, Monterey Bay: Ocean Science Research Experience for Undergraduates
- Caltech: Amgen Scholars Program ☆ Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) ☆ WAVE Fellows Program
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
- Columbia University: Amgen Scholars Summer Program
- Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility: CNF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
- Cornell University: Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (LSAMP REU)
- Duke University: Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP)
- Emory College: Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE)
- Fred Hutch: Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)
- Harvard University: Amgen Scholars Program ☆ Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program (SHURP)
- Harvard Medical School: Summer Clinical and Translational Research Program (SCTRP)
- Indiana University: STEM Summer Scholars Institute
- Johns Hopkins University: Diversity Summer Internship Program for Undergraduates (DSIP)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP-Bio)
- Mayo Clinic: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
- Northwestern University: MRSEC Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) ☆ Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP)
- Princeton Neuroscience Institute: Summer Internship Program
- Princeton University: Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)
- Rutgers University: Research Intensive Summer Experience (RISE)
- Stanford University: SSRP-AMGEN Scholars Program
- University of Alabama at Birmingham: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
- University of Alabama School of Medicine: Summer Program in Neuroscience (SPIN)
- University at Buffalo: CLIMB UP for Summer Research ☆ iSEED Undergraduate Summer Research Program
- University of California Berkeley: Amgen Scholars Program ☆ Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) ☆ Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley (SUPERB)
- University of California Los Angeles: Amgen Scholars Program ☆ Summer Programs for Undergraduate Research (SPUR)
- University of California San Francisco: Summer Programs
- University of Colorado Cancer Center: Cancer Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU) ☆ Graduate Experiences for Multicultural Students (GEMS)
- University of Colorado Denver: Computational Bioscience Program
- University of Georgia: Molecular and Synthetic Microbiology Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) ☆ Nanotechnology and Biomedicine Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
- University of Iowa: Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)
- University of Maryland: Summer Research Initiative (SRI)
- University of Massachusetts Amherst: Biostatistics Internship Program
- University of Michigan: Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP)
- University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
- University of Michigan Medical School: Undergrad Summer Research
- University of Nebraska Lincoln: STEC CAP MSI Program ☆ Summer Research Program
- University of New Mexico School of Medicine: Undergraduate Pipeline Network (UPN)
- University of North Carolina School of Medicine: Carolina Summer Fellowship Program (CSFP) ☆ Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE-REU)
- University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center: Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)
- University of Oregon: Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR)
- University of Pennsylvania: Summer Undergraduate Internship Program (SUIP)
- University of Pittsburgh: Training and Experimentation in Computational Biology (TECBio)
- University of Rochester Medical Center: Summer Scholars Program
- University of Virginia: Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)
- University of Virginia School of Medicine: Summer Research Internship Program (SRIP)
- University of Washington: Undergraduate Summer Research Programs
- University of Wisconsin Madison: Biological Interactions
- UT Health San Antonio: Summer Programs
- UT Health Science Center at Houston: Research Opportunities for Undergraduates
- UT MD Anderson Cancer Center: Undergraduate Research at Science Park
- UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences: Amgen Scholars Program ☆ Quantitative and Physical Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (QP-SURF) ☆ Quantitative and Physical Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (QP-SURF)-Chemistry ☆ Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) ☆ Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)-Stem Cell
- Washington University in St. Louis: Amgen Scholars Program ☆ BioMedRAP ☆ WUSTL ENDURE
- Yale University: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Programs Specifically for Pre-MD/PhD-MSTP students
