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Summer Opportunities

The following is a partial list of summer programs that are available to undergraduate students (all links open in a new window):

NSF Sponsored Summer Programs
for students completing their sophomore and junior years in engineering

Chemistry Internet Resource for Research by Undergraduate Students (CIRRUS)
searchable REU database

NIH Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research

Department of Energy
Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI, formerly ERULF)

The following National Labs have summer opportunities:
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 

Yale University's list of summer programs

Providence College's list of summer programs

Engineering and Physics

1. Texas A&M is offering a summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, which will be held from June to August in College Station.  The theme is Interdisciplinary Research on Imaging and Biomarkers. The application can be found at the Texas A&M REU page.

 

2. The University of Maryland Institute for Systems Research has a summer program in engineering.

3. The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in Princeton, NJ, has a summer REU program.

4. The Center for Nanoscale Systems at Cornell also has an REU program.

5. The Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy at Rensselaer Polytechnic University (RPI) has an REU program in physics.

6. The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Oceanography (SURFO) Program at the University of Rhode Island is a 10-week summer program designed for students majoring in science, math, and engineering who have just completed their junior year. Projects are available in the areas of oceanography, geophysics, atmospheric chemistry, meteorology, and ocean engineering.