Research Opportunities
Why Do Research?
Conducting research as an undergraduate is an excellent way to gain experiences and skills that will benefit you both academically and professionally. In addition to exploring your areas of interest in-depth, undergraduate research develops skills in collaborative learning and critical thinking. For students interested in pursuing grad school, undergraduate research is a way of expanding your education outside of the classroom and better preparing yourself for the rigors of graduate study. Even if you are unsure about graduate studies, conducting undergraduate research is a way of exploring your research interests and testing the suitability of a research career to your interests.
How to Prepare for Undergraduate Research
Taking on research in addition to your regular course load requires excellent time management skills. We recommend that freshman students wait a year before applying to a summer research experience and for applicants to have at least a year of science and one year of college level mathematics completed.
Please Note: The application process for each campus offering an opportunity for conducting research will vary.
Some questions to ask yourself as you plan your research are:
- How much time can I commit to conducting research?
- Will I need financial support to conduct research throughout the summer and academic year?
- What kind of research work interests me?
- What do I want to gain from my research experience?
- How can I best prepare myself academically and professionally to do research?
- What safety courses will I need to take to do research in my field or lab?
The better you plan your academic coursework, the better you will be able to organize your time for research. Whatever your future professional and academic plans, gaining experience in undergraduate research will enhance your application and your preparedness for more self-directed research.
Applicants should note that most application deadlines fall between February – March every year.
Down below are a myriad of websites that offer additional resources and undergraduate research opportunities.
This is your time to take advantage of the multitude of opportunities you have through applying for various research and internship opportunities!
- RECOMMENDATION LETTER REQUEST FORM– This handout is intended to assist students on how to ask faculty and/or staff letters of recommendation.
- *National Science Foundation – Research Experience for Undergraduates(REU)*
- STEM Undergrads Research Database- Various Deadlines
- National Institute of Health Program for College Students –To be Determined
- Cal Poly Pomona REU UAV Technology – To be Determined
- National Science Foundation REU’s for Biology, Chemistry, and Ocean Science Majors– Various Deadlines
- STEMSEAS @ Columbia University– To be Determined
- Keck Graduate Institute Summer Research Programs– To be Determined
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln Summer Research– To be Determined
- UCI SURF Program– To be Determined
- Stanford SURGE Program– To be Determined
- Tarleton State University REU– To be Determined
- UCI CHEMISTRY SURF– To be Determined
- Emory University LGS-SOAR-To be Determined
- MSRP @ MIT– To be Determined
- USC School of Pharmacy SURF– To be Determined
- Cornell University Department of Astronomy REU– To be Determined
- USC Viterbi SURE– To be Determined
- University of Alabama at Birmingham– To be Determined
- CAICE Undergraduate Summer Research – To be Determined
- University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa REU– To be Determined
- SETI Institute Research for Undergraduates– To be Determined
- Cal Poly Pomona REU Big Data Security– To be Determined
- STAR U Program at Columbia University– To be Determined
- Oregon State University Marine Science REU– To be Determined
- University of Alabama Birmingham PARAdiGM– To be Determined
- Michigan State University SROP– To be Determined (Click on MSU Specific application)
- NIST SURF Program– To be Determined
- University of Buffalo CLIMB UP– To be Determined
- B.I.G. Computation Biology Summer Research @ UCLA– To be Determined
- IoT-SITY Research Experience for Computer Science at UC Irvine– To be Determined
- Northwestern University NanoTechnology REU– To be Determined
- Washington State University REU– To be Determined
- Vanderbilt REU– To be Determined
- University of Oregon Environmental Summer Research in Chemistry, Physics and Materials Science– To be Determined
- University of Hawai’i, Manoa REU– To be Determined
- SUROC AT The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill– To be Determined
- UCLA Technology Leadership Summer Institute– To be Determined
- Cal State Fullerton URE 2021– To be Determined
- Mystic Aquarium Research Experience– Opens September 1, 2021
- USC Wrigley Marine Science Center– To be Determined
- University of Michigan Chemistry REU– To be Determined
- USC Keck School of Medicine Research Program– To be Determined
- USC Bridging the Gaps in Summer Research @ USC School of Medicine– To be Determined
- USC Viterbi School of Engineering SURE– To be Determined
- NASA L’Space Academy– Fall 2021 Application: August 13, 2021 by 11:59 PDT
- CSULB LSAMP Program– To be Determined
- CSULB Summer Bridge Program– To be Determined
- UCLA CCCP Program– To be Determined
- USIBR Program @ UC Irvine- To be Determined
- UCLA MEDPEP Program– To be Determined
- CSULB Transfer Student Opportunities– To be Determined
- Summer Biomedical Research– To be Determined
- UC San Diego STARS Program– To be Determined
- Transfer to Excellence Research Program at UC Berkeley -To be Determined
- CAMPARE Summer Research Program-To be Determined
- Community College Apprentice Research Experience (CCARE) @ CSU Monterey Bay– To be Determined
- Cal Tech Physics Summer Research Experience– LIGO SURF Program- To be Determined
- SURF Program at Scripps Research Institution– To be Determined
- CSULB BUILD, MARC, & RISE Programs- To be Determined
- CSULB Research Preparation Programs – Various Deadlines
- CURE REU Energy Program– To be Determined
- Take a look at CSU Fullerton Natural Science and Math Department Research Resources
- Pathways to Science-Various Deadlines
- University of Washington Undergraduate Summer Research- To be Determined
- The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)- Various Deadlines
- American Mathematical Society- To be Determined
- UCI’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program -Click on Off-Campus Opportunities- Various Deadlines
- NASA Student Opportunities –Various Deadlines
- NASA Micro G NExt– To be Determined
- Auburn University: REU in Aquatic Ecology – To be Determined
- Northern Arizona University: REU in Environmental Science – To be Determined
- California Academy of Sciences’ Summer Systematics Institute (SSI) – To be Determined
- Pepperdine University Seaver College Undergraduate Research in Biology – To be Determined
- California Campus REU Program: Structure & Function Summer Institute (SFSI) – To be Determined
- UC Berkeley REU: Integrating Biology from Molecules to Ecosystems – To be Determined
- Summer Research Program at UCSF – To be Determined
- Colorado State University: REU in Molecular Biosciences– To be Determined
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory REU – To be Determined
- UConn Physiology & Neurobiology REU – To be Determined
- Yale University: Research Training in Biology, Physics, & Engineering – To be Determined
- Natural History Research Experiences (NHRE) – To be Determined
- University of Georgia: REU in Computational Biology – To be Determined
- Georgia Southern University: REU in Coastal Plain Science – To be Determined
- University of Georgia: REU in Microbiology – To be Determined
- University of Georgia: REU in Population Biology – To be Determined
- REU in Environmental Biology for Pacific Islanders – To be Determined
- University of Hawaii at Manoa: REU in Biodiversity- To be Determined
- Pacific Internship Programs for Exploring Science (PIPES) – To be Determined
- University of Idaho’s REU in Molecular and Organismal Evolution -To be Determined
- Chicago Botanic Garden Research Experience – To be Determined
- Synthetic Biology Research Experience for Undergraduates (SynBREU) – To be Determined
- PRECS: Phenotypic Plasticity Research Experience for Community College Students – To be Determined
- University of Chicago REU in Cell Biology -To be Determined
- Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior REU – To be Determined
- Purdue University: REU in Molecular Biology – To be Determined
- University of Notre Dame: REU in Molecular Biology – To be Determined
- University of Iowa: REU in Evolutionary Science – To be Determined
- University of Iowa: REU in Microbiology – To be Determined
- Louisiana State University: REU in Genetics– To be Determined
- Johns Hopkins University: Rosetta Commons Research Experience for Undergraduates – To be Determined
- Johns Hopkins University BioREU – To be Determined
- Johns Hopkins University: NanoBio REU – Opens November 1, 2021
- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center’s (SERC) Internship Program- Various Deadlines
- University of Maryland: Marine Science REU – To be Determined
- Boston College STEM REU -To be Determined
- Boston University: Bioinformatics REU – To be Determined
- Boston University: Physics REU– To be Determined
- Boston University: SURF Program – To be Determined
- Brandeis University: Life Sciences REU – To be Determined
- Summer Research Opportunities at Harvard (SROH) – To be Determined
- Harvard Forest Summer Research Program in Ecology – To be Determined
- University of Chicago: Marine Biology SRE -To be Determined
- Northeastern University: Biology REU – To be Determined
- Tufts University: REU in Biology – To be determined
- UMass Boston: REU in Evolutionary Biology – To be Determined
- Kettering University REU – To be Determined
- Michigan State University W.K. Kellogg Biological Station (KBS REU) – To be Determined
- Plant Genomics at MSU REU Program -To be Determined
- REU: Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region – To be Determined
- University of Michigan Interdisciplinary REU Program in the Structure and Function of Proteins – To be Determined
- Mississippi State University: REU in Computational Biology – To be Determined
- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Research Internship – To be Determined
- Missouri Botanical Garden REU – To be Determined
- University of Missouri NeuroREU -To be Determined
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln Summer Research -To be Determined
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas: REU in Evolution – To be Determined
- Princeton University: Summer Research in Molecular Biophysics – To be Determined
- Princeton Neuroscience Institute Summer Internship -To be Determined
- University of New Mexico – Sevilla Field Station REU – To be Determined
- American Museum of National History Undergraduate Fellowship – To be Determined
- Boyce Thompson Institute Research Internships – To be Determined
- City College of New York Summer Research in Biochemistry – To be Determined
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Undergraduate Research – To be Determined
- Cornell University: Molecular Biology & Genetics (MBG-REU) – To be Determined
- Brooklyn Urban Ecology and Environment (BUEE) Program – To be Determined
- Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies NSF Program– To be Determined
- New York University Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) – To be Determined
- Wadsworth Center REU Program – To be Determined
- North Carolina State University Biotechnology Program– To be Determined
- University of North Dakota REU – To be Determined
- Miami University: REU in Ecology – To be Determined
- Ohio State University: REU in Molecular Genetics – To be Determined
- University of Central Oklahoma: REU in Math & Science – To be Determined
- University of Oregon: REU in Molecular Biosciences – To be Determined
- Exploration of Marine Biology on the Oregon Coast – To be Determined
- TECBio REU @ Pitt – To be Determined
- University of Puerto Rico: REU in Tropical Ecology -To be Determined
- Clemson University: Biophysics Summer REU – To be Determined
- Fort Johnson Summer Undergraduate Research Program – To be Determined
- University of Georgia: Savannah River Ecology Laboratory – To be Determined
- University of Tennessee: REU in Microbiology – To be Determined
- Rice University REU in BioNetworks -To be Determined
- Texas A & M University: SRE in Biochemistry – To be Determined
- Blandy Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program – To be Determined
- University of Virginia: Mountain Lake Biological Station REU – To be Determined
- University of Washington Genome Sciences Summer Research – To be Determined
- Center for Neurotechnology REU – To be Determined
- Marquette University Undergraduate Summer Research Program -To be Determined
- University of Wisconsin-Madison SRE – To be Determined
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