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College Summer Research Programs

"The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program supports active research participation by undergraduate students in any of the areas of research funded by the National Science Foundation..." Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program

These are but a few of the research opportunities available for pre-college and undergraduate students!  Don't limit yourself to these links; use Google to search for more opportunities, particularly in your area of interest, including the terms "summer undergraduate research."  Undergraduate research can be important to your future employment and graduate school admission.  Plus it's great experience, challenging and fun!

Freshmen and those with with no lab experience are recommend to apply to 10 or 12 programs; 2 or 3 is not enough. 

IGERT Summer Research for Undergraduates by Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship, funded by the National Science Foundation

IGERT includes opportunities for pre-college students. These are focused on Science, but include opportunities for future teachers and micro-enterprise as well.  Following the links for undergraduates leads to tons of listings...
 

NASA Robotics Academy

An intensive resident summer program of higher learning for college undergraduate and graduate students interested in pursuing professional and leadership careers in robotics-related fields...
 

NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP)

NASA interenship research and development opportunities in engineering, science, and mathematics, for rising sophomores, juniors or seniors...
 

Off-Campus Opportunities by University of California, Irvine

A data base full of programs in the Arts and Humanities, Engineering and the Sciences...
 

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program by the National Science Foundation

Hundreds of opportunities in the hard Sciences, Computers, Engineering, Education, Math & Physics, and the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences...
 

Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURF) by the National Science Foundation

SURF includes programs for students interested in medicine, including one at the Mayo Clinic.  SURF programs are not equipped with a search engine like REUs, so you'll need to use the "page search" feature of Google (see PC Security for information on installing the Google toolbar, then configure it to include the Page Search feature)...