Off-campus Opportunities
Nearby options: Consider applying to research programs close to campus!
Look
at Brookhaven National Laboratory/BNL (Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships). Consider Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories?CSHL Watson School of Biological Sciences' Summer Undergraduate Research Program. Deadlines vary.
Stony Brook students are eligible to apply for: Battelle Summer Research Fellowship
Have you considered REU Programs?
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)
See also The Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) listings for summer research.
See also:
Global Change Education Programs
Department of Homeland Security programs
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) ; ORISE - CDC programs
LISTING BY SUBJECT AREA
In addition, summer research opportunities include:
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
National Endowment for the Humanities
Biology/Biomedical Sciences
Biomaterials & Bionanotechnology Summer Institute at Penn State University, State College, PA
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington
Howard Hughes Medical Institute - listing of programs throughout the US. *See also: HHMI Janelia Farm (Ashburn, Virginia)
Jackson Laboratory: Academic Yr & Summer programs - Bar Harbor, Maine
Louisiana State University, Undergraduate Summer Research Program, Baton Rouge, LA
Mayo Clinic Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship - New York City
National Insitutes of Health (NIH)- Various summer research and/or post baccalaureate programs
Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network- 10 week internships for students majoring in science or health-related fields, Washington D.C.
Research Training Program - Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC.
RICE University (Houston, TX)-Institute of Biosciences & Bioengineering (IBB)- for Cellular Engineering)
SEA Semester at Woods Hole
Summer Medical and Dental Educational Programs - various site locations.
Summer Research (SURE) Program at Emory University, Atlanta, GA
University of Massachusetts Medical School (Worcester, Massachusetts)- NIH Summer Research Fellowship Program to increase diversity among biomedical researchers
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, Texas)- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program
SUNY Upstate Medical University - Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
University of Washington (Seattle, WA) Amgen Scholars Program
Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) - BioMedical Research Apprenticeship Program
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Summer Student Fellowships - Woods Hole, MA
Yale University School of Medicine (New Haven, Connecticut): BioStep Research program, and Medical and Dental Program
**post graduate
NIH-Oxford-Cambridge Biomedical Scholars Program
Chemistry
Chemistry Internet Resource for Research by Undergraduate Students (CIRRUS)
Chem-SURF Fellowship at UC Irvine (Irvine, CA) (*New program - Deadline April 7, 2008!)
Engineering, Computer Science; Physical and Applied Sciences
Berkeley-TRUST - University of California, Berkeley, Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (Berkeley, CA)
Homeland Security, Dept. of - Summer Internships in Science, Technology, Engineering and/or Math Disciplines
HHMI Janelia Farm (Ashburn, Virginia)
Lawrence Livermore Summer Internship Program (LLSIP)
Los Alamos National Laboratory - New Mexico
Milwaukee School of Engineering- Solid Free Form REU program (Milwaukee, WI)
New York Space Grant Opportunities
NIST-SURF program (Gaithersburg, MD)
University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), Rutgers University (Piscataway, NJ)- RISE (Research In Science and Engineering)
The Nucleus - browse summer opportunities for physics undergraduates
Environmental
2009 Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) for Undergraduate Environmental Study (fellowships/internships for junior/senior years)
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 California San Diego (San Diego, California)-UCSD Summer Training Academy for Research in the Sciences
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.
also, Pathways to Science site