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Why do research away from Ohio State?
As a major research institution and one of the largest universities in the nation, Ohio State has many excellent opportunities for its undergraduate researchers. Many students, however, expand their search for research opportunities to include programs in other cities, states, and even countries. These programs are often housed at prestigious academic and governmental institutions, and often have generous funding packages.
The US federal government allocates research funds through its consituent departments and institutions. A portion of these funds goes to support the research training of undergraduate students, and many of the best research opportunities are sponsored by federal funds. For a listing of research opportunities directly sponsored by federal institutions, please visit our Government Research page.
For a listing of research opportunities outside of the United States, see our International Research Opportunities page.
Other useful listings and searches
These websites also offer listings and search functions for undergraduate research opportunities, including opportunities not noted on our website.
The Amgen Scholars Program
Links to sites at 10 U.S. host universities with Amgen Scholars Programs providing intensive summer research opportunities in science and biotechnology. Deadline: February 1, 2013 for most programs.
Cleveland Clinic Research Opportunities
- Biomedical Engineering Internship
- Summer Internship Program
Several opportunties in areas such as: nursing, pharmacy, and public health, among others.
GREAT Group Summer Undergraduate Research Programs
Links to multiple summer research opportunities in biomedical sciences.
The National Science Foundation
The NSF maintains an extensive, searchable database of funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates. Students may search by state and/or subject area. Students who are U.S. citizens from any university are eligible to apply for these REU programs.
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)
This link is the gateway to many of the education and research experiences offered through ORISE and ORAU, the Oak Ridge Associated Universities.
Organization for Biological Field Stations (OBFS)
OBFS includes about 200 member stations from North America, as well as about 100 individuals who are associated with field stations. The website allows you to search courses at specific stations.
Pathways to Science REU Search
The Institute for Broadening Participation hosts this search engine, which allows students to search for summer over 400 Research Experiences by institution, by discipline, and/or by region.
Pathways to Science IGERT Search
Another IBP search engine. IGERTs are Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeships, and although they are primarily intended for graduate students, many accept undergraduate students into their programs.
The Euroscholars Program
EuroScholars is a unique study abroad program for advanced students whereby students can conduct research at a high caliber institution while taking a language and culture class. An OIA approved study abroad program.
List of Research Opportunities and Deadlines
The funding sources below are divided into quarters by application due date, so that you can more easily find upcoming deadlines. These funds are generally recurring: current deadlines are listed in red, while past deadlines that are listed in black. Past deadlines will be updated as new information becomes available; they remain on the website so that students can be aware of sources that may become available again.
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Department of State Internships
Only some of these positions involve research.
Deadline: November 2, 2012
Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Defense Scholarship Program
The Department of Defense offers scholarships and fellowships to undergraduate students in many science and engineering fields.
Deadline: December 14, 2012
Pasteur Foundation: Paul W. Zuccaire Undergraduate Internships
Deadline: December 21, 2012
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AAAS Mass Media and Science & Engineering Fellows Program
American Association for the Advancement of Science 10-week summer program places graduate and post-graduate level science, engineering and mathematics students at media organizations nationwide.
Deadline: January 15, 2013
Alcohol Research Training Summer School (ARTSS)
ARTSS is designed to provide an intensive introduction to alcohol research for undergraduates interested in pursuing careers in the field.
Deadline: February 1, 2013
American Mathematical Society
The AMS has links to many REUs across the country for students in mathematics.
Deadlines: vary
Department of Commerce Internships
Only some of these positions involve research.
Summer Deadline: January 31, 2012
Albert Einstein College of Medicine Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)
Deadline: February 1, 2013
Baylor College of Medicine Summer Medical and Research Training Program
Deadline: February 1, 2013
Behavioral Research Advancements in Neuroscience (BRAIN)
Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Atlanta, Ga.
Deadline: not offered in 2013
California Institute of Technology's SURF
Deadline: February 22, 2013
Cary Institute REU: Translational Ecology for Undergraduates
Deadline: February 5, 2013
Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS)
Deadline: February 22, 2013
Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS)
Deadline: February 15, 2013
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Summer Research Fellowship
Deadline: February 15, 2013
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Summer Undergrad Research Program, Long Island, NY
Deadline: January 15, 2013
Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research (CILER)
Deadline: February 29, 2012
Department of Energy Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships
Summer Deadline: January 10, 2013
2013 Fall Internship Deadline: June 12, 2013
Department of Energy Scholars Program
Deadline: January 4, 2013
Department of Homeland Security STEM Summer Research Internships
Deadline: January 15, 2013
Department of Homeland Security Scholarship Program
Will not occur Summer 2012
Engineering Biological Machines REU
Deadline: February 15, 2013
Environmental Health Research Experience Program (EH REPat the University of Washington, Seattle)
Deadline: February 15, 2013
Florida Mental Health Institute Summer Research Institute
Deadline: March 4, 2013
"Hands-on Minds-on" NSF-funded interdisplinary REU at Virginia Tech
Hands-on Minds-on": Multidisciplinary Approaches to Understanding and Preventing Societal Violence Summer Program.
Deadline: January 25, 2013
Harvard Forest Summer Research Program in Ecology, Boston, MA
Application opens: December 1, 2012 Deadline: First week of February
Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Summer Institute, Boston, MA
Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics deadline: January 31, 2013
Biomedical Optics deadline: January 15, 2013
Janelia Farm Summer Undergraduate Scholars (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Deadline: January 15, 2013
John Hopkins Bio Research Experience for Undergraduates
Deadline: February 1, 2013
Kellogg Biological Station
The Kellogg Station offers many programs in the biological sciences.
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Just announced-Kirtlandia Society Research Internships at Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Deadline: March 15, 2013
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Internship Opportunities
The Lawrence Laboratory offers many internships year-round
Deadline: February 28, 2012 (January 31, 2012 for fullest consideration)
LIU-Post Summer Internship Program
Deadline: March 1, 2013
Loyola Medical School Microbiology and Immunology Summer Research Program
Deadline: February 15, 2012
Mayo Clinic Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Deadline: February 1, 2013
Monterrey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Summer Internship
Application period: late November 2012- February 2013
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Undergraduate Student Research Program
Deadline: March 15, 2013
National Center for Toxicological Research Summer Student Research Program
Deadline: March
8, 2013
The National Institutes of Health Summer Internship Program
Deadline: March 1, 2013 however applications are reviewed on a revolving basis beginning in November. Early applications are encouraged.
National Institute of Standards and Technology Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Gaithersburg, Md.
Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of NIST's research, students are encouraged to look through the different websites to discover lots of interesting project areas.
Deadline: February 15, 2013
National Institute of Standards and Technology Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Boulder, Colo.
Deadline: February 15, 2013
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship Program
Deadline: January 31, 2013
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) EPP Undergraduate Scholarship Program
Deadline: February 15, 2013
National Radio Astronomy Observatory Summer Research Assistantships
Deadline: February 1, 2013
Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) REU
Deadline: February 28, 2013
Northern Illinois University REU: Operation ETank
Deadline: March 1, 2013
NYU Langone Medical Center Summer Undergraduate Research Program
Deadline: February 1, 2013
(NESLS) Program
Deadline: February 28, 2012
Oklahoma State University REU Site: Biological Basis of Human and Animal Behavior
Deadline: February 15, 2013
Research in Industrial Projects for Students in Los Angeles, Berlin, and Beijing
at The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)
Deadline: February 10, 2011
Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE)
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) invites undergraduate students from the US and Canada in the fields of Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Sciences and Engineering to apply for a summer research internship in Germany.
Deadline: January 31, 2013
School of Life Sciences Summer Research Program, Lausanne, Switzerland
Deadline: January 31, 2013
Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORNL is the largest science and energy laboratory in the Department of Energy system.
Deadline: January 10, 2013
Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of Natural History Research Experience
Deadline: January 30, 2013
Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of Natural History Internships
Only some of these positions involve research.
Deadline: Check individual programs for deadlines.
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Internship
Deadline: February 1, 2013
SUPERS@Penn--Summer Undergraduate Program for Educating Radiation Scientists
Deadline: February 1, 2013
Tufts Building Diversity in Biomedical Sciences
Deadline: February 15, 2013
University of California—San Francisco Summer Research Opportunities
Deadline: February 1, 2013
University of Central Florida--various REUs offered
Deadline: vary
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine ROSE Summer Research Internship
Deadline: February 1, 2013
University of Florida—various REUs offered
Deadline: vary
- REU: Structure and Function of Proteins Deadline: February 15, 2013
- Molecular/Integrative Physiology Fellowship Deadline: February 1, 2013
- REU: Physics Deadline: February 27, 2012
- REU: Biophysics Deadline: February 8, 2013
- Cancer Research Summer Internship Program Deadline: March 31, 2011
University of Minnesota Life Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Programs
Deadline: February 15, 2012
University of Missouri Summer Research Programs in:
University of Missouri, Columbus: Summer REU in Neuroscience
Deadline: February 15, 2013
University of Nevada, Las Vegas: REU in Environmental Microbiology
Deadline: February 15, 2013
University of North Carolina: Carolina Summer Fellowship Program in Pharmacology
Deadline: March 30, 2012
University of Oregon Summer Program for Undergraduate Research in the Life Sciences
Deadline: no hard deadline; February decisions
University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Summer REU in Sensing and Signaling
Deadline: February 28, 2013
University of Texas Medical Branch Biomedical Research Program
Deadline: February 15, 2013
University of Utah Materials Research Science and Engineering Center REU
Deadline: March 1, 2013
University of Virginia Blandy Experimental Farm REU
Deadline: March 1, 2013
Vanderbilt University Nanoscience and Engineering REU
Deadline: February 15, 2013
Weizmann Institute of Science
Deadline: January 31, 2013
West Virginia University REU: Bioloical Responses to the Environment from Genes to the Ecosystem
Review of submitted applications will begin: February 17, 2012
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Summer Student Fellowship Program
Deadline: February 15, 2013
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Swashzone Processes Student Fellowships
Deadline: not offered in 2012
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Foreign Policy Research Institute
Deadline: 15 September for fall applications, 15 January for spring applications, and close of business (5PM) on the first Friday of April for summer applications
North American Archaeology Internship
Summer Deadline: April 1, 2012
Alden Dow Creative Minds in Residence Fellowship
Deadline: Continuously offered during the academic year
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is the largest science and energy laboratory in the Department of Energy system. Scientific programs focus on materials, neutron sciences, energy, high performance computing, systems biology and national security.
Applications accepted year-round, but for best results apply by:
Summer Internships: February 1
Fall Internships: June 1
Spring Internships: October 1
The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Internship Program
Multiple internships available year-round.
Summer Internship Deadline: February 1
Autumn Internship Deadline: November 15
Spring Internship Deadline: June 1
The Student Conservation Association Internships
Only some of these positions involve research.
Deadline: ongoing
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