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Find Summer Research Beyond UW

Summer research programs give students the opportunity to have an immersive research experience during the summer period that might not be possible during the school year. Summer programs are a great chance for students to try something new or take their experience to the next level.

Below are some summer research programs around the U.S. and around the world. If you find any broken links, please email URP.

Other summer research program databases

• The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds many Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) in a range of academic disciplines at sites across the country. Search for an REU site
• The Institute for Broadening Participation's Pathways to Science project maintains a searchable database of programs in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.

Summer research opportunities

M = minority students encouraged to apply

Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

• Excavations at Tel Dor in Israel
  Tel Dor, Israel (Affiliated with UW)
• Exploration Seminars, University of Washington
  Various Locations - International
• Freeman Indonesia Nonprofit Internship Program
  Various Locations - Indonesia
• Institute for International Public Policy Fellowship Program
  Fairfax, VA
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
  University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI
• Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program M
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Chapel Hill, NC
• Public Policy & International Affairs Fellowship Program
  Washington, D.C.
• Semester with Integrated, Extended (into the Summer) Research
  Newcastle University, UK
• SIT Study Abroad
  Various Locations - International
• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Internships & Fellowships M
  Washington, D.C.
• Summer Pre-Graduate Research Experience M
  University North Carolina at Chapel Hill -Chapel Hill, NC
• Summer Research - Early Identification Program (SR-EIP) M
  Various Locations
• UC Berkeley Summer Research Opportunity Program
  University of California-Berkeley - Berkeley, CA
• Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)
  Various Locations
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• UW-SU Undergraduate Exchange Program
  Sichuan University - Chengdu, China (Affiliated with UW)

Medicine & Health

• Academic Fellowships and Scholarships, Research Experiences, Sabbaticals, and Internships Available through ORISE and ORAU
  Various Locations
• Active Minds Emerging Scholars Fellowship
  Various Locations
• Behavioral Research Advancements in Neuroscience (BRAIN)
  Atlanta, GA
• Chicago Center for Systems Biology Fellowships
  Chicago, IL
• Florida Mental Health Research Institute
  University of South Florida
• Four Directions Summer Research Program
  Harvard Medical School - Boston, MA
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Summer Intern Program
  Seattle, WA
• Gateways to the Laboratory Program M
  New York, NY
• Harvard Stem Cell Institute Internship Program (HIP)
  Boston, MA
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Scholars Program
  Loudoun County, Virginia
• Medical Scientist Training Program (MD, PHD)
  University of Iowa - Iowa City, IA
• Medical Scientist Training Program (MD, PHD)
  University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI
• Minority Health Disparities Summer Research Opportunities M
  University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ
• Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) M
  University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh, PA
• Multidisciplinary International Research Training
  Overseas
• National Science Foundation Science & Technology Centers
  Various Locations
• Ohio State University SUCCESS Program M
  Ohio State University - Columbus, OH
• Opening Doors Program M
  Drexel University - Philadelphia, PA
• Paul W. Zuccaire Internship Program
  Paris, France
• Research Experience for Undergraduates in Cell Biology & Neuroscience
  Montana State University - Bozeman, MT
• Rockefeller Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
  Rockefeller University, NY
• Rutgers RISE Program M
  Rutgers, New Jersey
• Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
  Seattle, WA
• Short Term Educational Experiences for Research (STEER)
  University of Montana - Missoula, MT
• Short-Term Training Program to Increase Diversity in Health-Related Research M
  Wright State University - Dayton, OH
• SIT Study Abroad
  Various Locations - International
• Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program
  Harvard University - Boston, MA
• Summer Medical and Research Training Program
  Baylor College of Medicine, TX
• Summer Research in Investigative Biotechnology
  Western Kentucky University - Bowling Green, KY
• Summer Research Internship Program in Biomedicine M
  University of Virginia - Charlottesville, VA
• Summer Research Program
  University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh, PA
• Summer Research Program for Undergraduate Minority Students M
  Tufts University - Boston, MA
• Summer Pre-Graduate Research Experience M
  University North Carolina at Chapel Hill -Chapel Hill, NC
• Summer Program in Quantitative Sciences for Public Health Research M
  Harvard University - Boston, MA
• Summer Training Academy for Research in the Sciences M
  University of California-San Diego - La Jolla, CA
• Summer Undergraduate Research Experience
• Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
  RWTH Aachen University - Aachen, Germany
• UW-SU Undergraduate Exchange Program
  Sichuan University - Chengdu, China (Affiliated with UW)
• Village Reach
  Mozambique

Science, Engineering, Nanotechnology, Technology, & Mathematics

• American Mathematical Society REU Summer Programs
  Various Locations
• Academic Fellowships and Scholarships, Research Experiences, Sabbaticals, and internships Available through ORISE and ORAU
  Various Locations
• Alaska Fisheries Science Center
  Seattle, WA; Newport, OR; Juneau, AL
• Albert Einstein Summer Undergraduate Research Program
  Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY
• American Indian Science and Engineering Society M
  Albuquerque, NM
• American Society for Microbiology Undergraduate Research Fellowship M
  Washington, D.C.
• Biological Basis of Human and Animal Behavior
  Oklahoma State University, OK
• Biomedical Research Apprenticeship Program
  Washington University in St. Louis, MO
• Biomedical Science Training and Enrichment Program
  Yale University School of Medicine, CT
• Boston University Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program
  Boston, MA
• Caltech Amgen Scholars Program
  Caltech, CA
• Center for Environmental Health Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program
  University of Montana, Missoula MT
• Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN)
  Various Locations
• CENTC Undergraduate Summer Research Program
  Various Locations
• Center for Nanoscale Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems
  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT)
  University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN
• Chemistry Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship M
  University of California, Irvine
• Chicago Center for Systems Biology REU
  Chicago, IL
• Committee on Institutional Cooperation Summer Research Program
  Champaign, IL
• CRA-W/CDC Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates M
  Various Locations
• Critical Skills Internship Opportunities
  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Community Soil Air Water (CSAW) NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates
  Georgia State University, Atlanta GA
• Department of Homeland Security HS-STEM Summer Internship Program
  Various Locations
• Department of Homeland Security Scholarship and Fellowship Program
• Duke University Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP)
  Durham, NC
• GSK Summer Undergraduate Research Program
  Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, NY
• “Hands-on Minds-on”: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Understanding and Preventing Societal Violence
  Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
• Hurricane REU 2010
  University of South Florida, FL
• IBM Almaden Research Center
  San Jose, CA
• Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) Summer Internship
  Seattle, WA
• Integrated Biological Sciences Summer Research Program M
  University of Wisconsin, WI
• The Integrated Micro/Nano Summer Undergraduate Research Experience
  University of California-Irvine
• Integrated Optics for Undergraduates Program
  Various Locations
• Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean Summer Internship Program
  Seattle, WA
• Keck Geology Consortium
  Various Locations
• Life Sciences Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program
  University of Missouri-Columbia
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Los Alamos, NM
• Mathematics Research Experience for Undergraduates
  Cal State Channel Islands
• MIT Summer Research Program M
  Cambridge, MA
• Missouri University of Science and Technology REU in Additive Manufacturing
  Rolla, MO
• Multicultural Access to Research Training M
  University of Colorado - Boulder, CO
• MURF Undergradute Research Fellows M
  Caltech, CA
• NanoJapan: Summer Nanotechnology Research Internship Program
  Various locations in Japan
• NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  Pasadena, CA
• NASA Robotics Academy
  Various NASA Research Centers.
• NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program
  Multiple Locations in the U.S.
• National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network REU M
  Multiple Locations in the U.S.
• National Science Foundation REU Opportunities
  Various Locations
• Northwestern University Summer Research Opportunity Program
  Evanston, IL
• NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
  Gaithersburg, MD
• NYU Summer Undergraduate Research Program
  New York University School of Medicine, NY
• Office of Biological and Environmental Research Global Change Education Program
  Multiple Locations in the U.S.
• Paul W. Zuccaire Internship Program
  Paris, France
• Quantitative and Physical Science SURF Program at UT Southwestern
  University of Texas Southwestern Modeical Center, TX
• Research at NASA's Glenn Research Center
  Cleveland, OH
• Research Experience for Undergraduates Program in Solar and Space Physics
  University of Colorado - Boulder, Colorado
• Research Experience for Undergraduates Program in Sustainability
  Northern Illinois University - DeKalb, IL
• Research Experience for Undergraduates Program in Water Resources
  University of Florida
• Research in Science and Engineering
  Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ
• Research Internships in Science and Engineering
  Multiple Locations within Germany
• Resources for the Future Summer Research Internship Program
  Multiple Locations in the U.S.
• Science Education Programs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Multiple locations
• The Seyfert Prize Fellowship for Undergraduate Research
  Case Western Reserve University - Cleveland, OH
• Scripps Undergraduate Research Fellowship
  Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego
  
• Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science M
  Boulder, CO
• SIT Study Abroad
  Various Locations - International
• Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Space Astronomy Summer Program
  Space Telescope Science Institute - Baltimore, MD
• Summer Biomedical Training Program at UMBC M
  University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Summer Internships in Science and Technology
  Batavia, Illinois
• Summer Pre-Graduate Research Experience M
  University North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Chapel Hill, NC
• Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) M
  Various Locations
• Summer Research Program in Genomics (SRPG)
  BROAD Institute of MIT and Harvard, MA
• Summer Research Program in Life Sciences and Technology
  Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) - Lausanne, Switzerland
• Summer Undergraduate Mathematical Science Research Institute
  Miami University - Oxford, OH
• Summer Undergraduate Research Experience
  U.S. Department of Energy, Various Locations
• Summer Undergraduate Research Internships in Computational Biology
  Farmington, CT
• Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Molecular and Quantitative & Computational Biology
  Princeton, NJ
• SURF Program
  University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, TX
• UCI's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program
  University of California-Irvine
• Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
  RWTH Aachen University - Aachen, Germany
• University of California, San Fransisco Summer Research Program
  San Francisco, CA
• University of Colorado SMART Program M
  Boulder, CO
• University of Michigan Molecular & Integrative Physiology Summer Fellowship
  University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI
• University of Missouri Summer Research Programs
  University of Missouri - Columbia, MO
• University of Nevada-Las Vegas Research Experience for Undergraduates in Environmental Microbiology
  University of Nevada - Las Vegas, NV
• University of Oregon NIH R25 Summer Research Program
  Eugene, OR
• University of Oregon Summer Program for Undergraduate Research
  Eugene, OR
• University of Tennessee-Knoxville Summer REU
  University of Tennessee - Knoxville, TN
• U.S. Department of Energy Global Change Program
  Various States
• U.S. Department of Energy Scholars Program
  Various States
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  Various States
• Village Reach
  Mozambique

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