Summer Summer Research Opportunities in
Biology

Types of Opportunities

There are many paid opportunities for participation in summer research programs. The major sources of funding for these programs are:

The following list of links is based on a search done in November, 1998. You should think of these sources as a starting point; new web pages announcing programs appear daily and we strongly urge that you do your own search as well as using the resources provided here. Some of the links lead to programs that existed in previous summers; it is reasonable to expect that most of these opportunities will be available in the future as well.
Links updated 8 Mar 2000.

Information Sources

Biological Field Stations

National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)

Although the National Science Foundation's IGERT program is primarily for graduate training, undergraduate support for summer projects is sometimes provided.

List of summer internships compiled by Yale University. This listing covers many different opportunites in universities, research Institutions, and industry.

Museums. This list was compiled by the Smithsonian. Some of the listed institutions offer undergraduate research opportunities.

Index to Student Career Development Opportunities compiled by the National Institutes of Health

Natio nal Institutes of Health (MARC program). These grants are made to Universities to enhance the research training of minority students.

NationalI nstitutes of Health (internship opportunities at NIH)

Individual Sites and Opportunities

Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, Emory University

Research Training Program, US Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Undergraduate Research Semester program, US Department of Energy

Summer program, White Mountain Research Station, Bishop, California

Summer Research Opportunity at Indiana University

Summer Undergraduate Research Program of the University of Georgia's Research Training Group in Prokaryotic Diversity

Cold Spring Harbor Undergraduate Research Program

A list of REU sites in Evolution and Ecology

MARC program, Arizona State University

REU program, Arizona State University

Urban Ecology REU program, Arizona State University

Mountain Lake Field Station, Virginia

Computational Biology Program at Rice University

Center for Metalloenzyme Studies, University of Georgia

Summer Research Programs, Loma Linda University

University of Louisville, Summer Research Programs

University of Oregon, Summer Program for Undergraduate Research

Neuroscience Undergraduate Summer Research Program for New Jersey Students

University of Maryland, Research Training Grant in Biology of Small Populations

Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas, Galveston

Summer Training Program in Mathematical Biology, Pennsylvania State University

Summer Research Program in Developmental Biology, Washington University