Biology 2015 Summer Research Opportunities

2016 Summer Research Opportunities to be available soon (11-11-15)

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For International Students seeking summer research opportunities in the United States: Due to visa restrictions, international students interested in off-campus summer research opportunities must ensure that they are properly authorized to engage in such activities. If the summer internship includes any kind of compensation (salary, stipend, scholarship/grant, room and board, transportation, etc.) from a source other than Amherst College, the student must apply to the U. S. Government for "optional practical training" permission. International students should consult the Dean of Students Office to discuss their plans and initiate the authorization process. Students are encouraged to do so as early as possible, even before a specific internship has been secured, as authorization process for obtaining permission for off-campus summer internships can take several months.

Amherst College Summer Science Research

Summer Science Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF): for first/second year students.
The Gregory S. Call Summer Research Program (SRP) for second/third year students: 20156 applications due April 1.

Five College Summer Science Research

• Five College Funded Summer Research Internships: offer students enrolled in the five colleges support for summer research positions at approved marine laboratories.  There are two types of paid summer research opportunities available through Five College Coastal & Marine Sciences. Each of the two internship categories has its own application requirements and deadlines. Seniors may apply only to the Marine Biological Laboratory internships. 2015 applications due February 28.  
  
• University of Massachusetts, Institute for Cellular Engineering (ICE): 2015 applications due March 1. 
• University of Massachusetts, Nanotechnology (SURE): 2015 applications due February 28.

Programs with Many Opportunities in Biology

• University of Oregon (SPUR): No hard deadline. 2016 offers begin in mid February.
  
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): Discontinued in 2014.
• University of California at San Diego: Multiple opportunities with various deadlines.

Programs Emphasizing Ecology / Evolution / Plants / Animals

• American Cancer Society, Fuller Fellowship: 2015 applications due January 21, 2015.  
  
• American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB): 2015 application window opens December 1, 2014 and closes on February 11, 2015.  
• California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Summer Systematics Institute: 2016 applications  open mid November 2015, deadline February 5, 2016.
  
• Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies: 2016 applications due February 5. 2016. Note: Cary REU Program is pending receipt of funding from NSF
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA: 2015 applications due January 28.
• Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, Earth Institute, ColumbiaUniversity: Field research outside of the continental U.S. Rolling admissions, next deadline January 1, 2015.
• Cornell University and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Plant Genome Research Program (PGRG): 2015 applications due February 6.  
• Cornell University Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology: 2015 applications due February 20. 
  
• Darling Marine Center, University of Maine- Steneck Lab: Marine Benthic Subtidal Ecology: Link broken. 
• Donald Danforth Plant Science Center: 2015 applications due February 6. 
• Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, NC:  2015 applications due February 15.
  
• Grice Marine Laboratory College of Charleston: Link Broken. 
  
• Harvard University (Harvard Forest), Ecology: 2015 applications due February 6.  
  
• Huyck Preserve and Biological Research Station- multiple grants and fellowships:  2015 applications due March 13. 
  
• Indiana University, Center for the Integrated Study of Animal Behavior: 2015 applications due February 15.
• Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies, Ecology and Evolution: 2015 applications due February 28.
• Kansas State University, Konza Prarie Biological Station: Anuual deadline March 1. 
• Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University: Link broken.  
  
• Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI:  2015 applications not yet available. 20144 applications were due January 31.
• Michigan State University, Plant Genomics: 2015 applications due February 18. 
• Mount Desert Island Biological Lab: 2015 applications due January 9.  
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): Discontinued for 2014 (budget reductions).
• North Carolina State University Biotechnology Program and Department of Plant Biology, Synthetic Biology Undergraduate Research Experience: 2015 applications due February 20.
• Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden, plant biology and conservation: 2015 applications due February 8.  
  
• Ohio State, Stone Laboratory, Lake Erie, the oldest freshwater biological field station in the United States: 2015 applications due February 20.
• Pepperdine University: 2015 applications due February 16.  
• Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, SURF: accepting 2015 applications after January 2. SROP: 2015 applications due March 1. 
• Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory:- Link broken. 2014 applications were due February 15.
• Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, BITTSE Program (BIotransformation in the Tropics, Temperate and Sub-arctic Environments): Link broken. 2014 applications were due February 24.
  
• The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK, Plant Science: 2015 applications due February 13.
• Shoals Marine Laboratory, Marine Biology, Various: 2015 applications due January 13.  
  
• Smithsonian Environmental Research Center: 2015 applications due February 1.
• Southwestern Research Station: 2015 deadlines vary but most are due February 15.  
• University of Delaware, College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment: 2015 applications due February 13.
• University of Georgia, Fungal Genomics & Computational Biology: 2015 applications due March 1.
• University of Massachusetts, Boston: Integrative and Evolutionary Biology: 2015 applications due January 23.
• University of Minnesota, Echinacea Project, Habitat Fragmentation of Tallgrass Prairie: 2015 applications due February 8 and February 27 (2 internships available). 
• University of Oregon: Rolling admissions begin in late January.  
• University of Pittsburgh's TEC Program (Computational Biology):2015 applications due March 1.
  
• University of Virginia, Blandy Experimental Farm: 2015 applications due March 1. 
• University of Virginia, Mountain Lake Biological Station: 2015 applications due February 20.
• University of Washington, Friday Harbor Laboratories: 2015 applications due March 1.
• University of Wisconsin, Madison: 2015 applications due February 15.
• Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS): 2015 applications due February 10.
• The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience: 2015 applications due February 15.
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 2015 applications due February 15.

Programs Emphasizing Molecular Biology/Medicine

• Albert Einstein College of Medicine:  Link Broken. 
• Baylor College of Medicine: 2015 applications due January 10. 
  
• Brandeis University: 2015 applications due February 2.
• Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard- SPRG Program: 2015 applications due February 2. 
• California Institute of Technology: 2015 Amgen applications due February 15, SURF due February 22. 
• Caltech, Amgen Scholars Program: 2015 applications due February 15.
• Caltech, WAVE Fellows Program: 2015 applications due January 7.
• Cold Spring Harbor: (includes Neuroscience): 2015 applications due January 15.
• Colorado State University, Summer Program in Molecular Biosciences: 2015 applications due February 1.
• Columbia University,Barnard College, Amgen Scholars Program: 2015 applications due February 2.
• Columbia University, IGERT: 2015 information not yet available. 2013 applications were due February 14. 
• Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, CURE Program:  2015 applications due February 17. 
• Dartmouth, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program: 2015 applications due February 1.
• Emory University, SURE Program: Link broken. 
  
• Fox Chase Cancer Center: Link broken. 2013 applications were due April 1. 
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center: 2015 applications due January 16, letters of rec due January 23. 
• Gerstner Sloan-Kettering: 2015 applications due February 1. 
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Janelia Farm Summer Program: 2015 applications due January 15.
• Indiana University: multiple programs and deadlines. 
• The Jackson Laboratory: 2015 applications due February 2.
• John Hopkins University- Visualization of Macromolecules in Biological Research: 2014 applications due February 1. 
• John Hopkins University, Institute for NanoBioTechnology: 2015 applications due February 1.
• Joslin Diabetes Center- Harvard: 2015 applications due January 24.
• Louisiana State University Biological Sciences: 2015 applications due February 11.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Amgen Scholars Program: 2015 applications due February 2.  
• Mayo Graduate School: 2015 applications due February 1.
• Medical College of Wisconsin: Link broken. 2014 applications were due February 15.
• Medical University of South Carolina: 2015 applications due January 31.
• Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Systems Biology Center (SBCNY): 2015 applications due March 2.
  
• National Cancer Institute
• National Institute of Health: 2015 applications due March 1.  
• National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network: 2015 applications due February 11.  
  
• New York University, Sackler Institute: Link broken. 2014 applications were due February 1.  
• North Carolina State University, Summer Institute in Biostatistics: 2015 applications due March 6.  
  
• North Dakota Center for Protease Research: Link broken.
  
• Ohio State University: 2015 applications due February 15.  
• Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine: Link broken. 
• Rockefeller University:  2015 applications due February 1.  
• Roswell Park Cancer Institute: 2015 applications due January 10.  
• Santa Fe Institute REU summer program, includes biological modeling:  2015 applications due February 7.
• Stanford University, SSRP-Amgen: 2015 applications due February 2. 
• SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse: 2015 applications due February 16.
• Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC): Link broken. 
• Texas A & M University: Link broken.
• Thomas Jefferson University: Link broken. 
• Tufts Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Studies: 2015 applications due February 15.
• University of Alabama at Birmingham, SIBS Program: Link broken. 
• University of California at Berkeley, Amgen Scholars Program: Link broken. 
• University of California at San Diego: Amgen discontinued in 2014. 
• University of California at San Francisco: 2015 applications due February 2. 
• University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)- Amgen Scholars Program: 2015 applications due February 2. 
• UCLA, several programs: 2015 applications due March 31 "unless otherwise stated in the program description." 
• University of Cincinnati Medical School Summer Research Fellowship: 2015 applications due February 2.
• University of Connecticut Health Center:  2015 applications due March 1. 
• University of Georgia, Microbiology:  2015 applications due February 20. 
• University of Iowa Summer Undergraduate MSTP program: 2015 applications due February 2.
• University of Iowa, Microbiology: 2015 applications due February 15. 
• University of Iowa, Molecular & Cellular Biology:  2015 applications due February 1. 
• University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ: Link broken. 2014 applications were due February 21. 
  
• University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), Rutgers, (Piscataway, New Jersey), RISE Program:  2015 rolling admissions began in late January.
• University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts: 2015 applications due March 13.
• University of Michigan Medical School: Multiple opportunities & deadlines.
• University of Minnesota-Life Sciences: 2015 applications due February 16.
  
• University of Nebraska- Lincoln: Link broken. 2014 priority deadline was February 1, complete applications were due February 17. 
• University of Nebraska Medical Center: Link broken. 2014 applications were due March 1.
• University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill: 2015 review of applications on February 2; final deadline February 28. 
• University of Oregon, REU in Molecular Biosciences: Link broken. No hard deadline, offers of admission begin in late January. Review of applications continues until all slots are filled, usually late March, but space is very limited.
• University of Pennsylvania ,TECBio: "Simulation and Visualization of Biological Systems at Multiple Scales": 2015 applications due March 1. 
• University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine,Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Diseases: 2015 applications due February 13. 
• University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology (ASPET): 2015 applications: early deadline February 1; final deadline March 1.
• University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences (SURP): 2015 early applications due February 1; final deadline March 1.
• University of Rochester, Summer Scholars Program: 2015 applications due March 1. 
• University of Southern Alabama: Not updated for 2015. 2014 applications were due February 21. 
• University of Texas - Houston Health Sciences Center: 2015 applications due February 1.
• University of Texas Medical Branch - Galveston: 2015 applications due February 1.
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas: 2015 applications due February 9.
• University of Virginia School of Medicine: 2015 applications due February 1.
• University of Wisconsin, Madison, Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP): 2015 applications due February 15. 
  
• Vanderbilt University, Chemical Biology: 2015 applications due February 1.
  
• Wadsworth Center, New York State Dept. of Health: 2015 applications due February 27. 
• Wake Forest University: 2014 applications due February 10.
• Washington University in St. Louis Amgen Scholars Program: 2015 applications due February 2.
• Washington University in St. Louis Biomedical Research Apprentice Program: 2015 applications due February 2.

Programs Emphasizing Neuroscience

• Huntington's Disease Society of America, Donald A. King HDSA Summer Research Fellowship: 2015 applications due March 6. 
• Please visit the Summer Programs page maintained by Amherst College's Neuroscience Program.  

Biology Education

• North Dakota State University Growing Up STEM Program: 2015 applications due January 29.
• University of Georgia Undergraduate Biology Education Research (UBER): 2015 applications due February 27.  

Sites with Lists of Many Programs

• National Science Foundation-Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) -This is an excellent site containing a list of participating universities and other research institutions that have REU programs in biology (many of which are listed separately above).
• Amgen Scholars Program - This website compiles all of the AMGEN host universities across the U.S. (many of which are listed separately above).
• The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
• American Physiological Society
• Columbia University
• Duke University
• Rochester Institute of Technology, Programs in Ecology, Animal & Plant Biology, Marine Science
• Swarthmore College

International Research

• Amazon Exchange Program: 2015 applications not yet available. 2014 applications were due February 15.
• German Academic Exchange Service: 2015 applications due January 15. 
• Institut Pasteur, Paris: Link broken. 2014 applications were due December 13, 2013. 
• Organization for Tropical Studies (Costa Rica): 2015 applications due January 31.  
• Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, BITTSE Program (BIotransformation in the Tropics, Temperate and Sub-arctic Environments) and BBHOC Program (Biogeography & Biotransformations for Halogenated Organic Compounds): These programs offers research opportunities in Finland and China. Link broken. 2014 applications were due February 24.
• The Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO): 2015 applications not yet available. 2013 applications were due April 21. 

Last Updated:
18 March 2015 TLR