External Funding Opportunities

Looking for money for your research? The following links will help.

PLEASE NOTE: All funding requests must go through the Office of Sponsored Research. Please contact us.

  1. Campus Based Funding

    1.  Student Research Programs

  2. Federal 

    1. National Science Foundation 
      1. NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) **excellent summer research opportunities**

  3. Other Federal 

    1. NASA
    2. Department of Energy Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships
    3. NOAA Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship Program
    4. USA Jobs, Pathways Program (federal internships)

  4. Opportunities at Other Colleges

    1. Amgen Scholars (multiple host universities)
    2. Nebraska Summer Research Program
    3. University of Missouri Undergraduate Research Programs
    4. University of Maryland Summer Training and Research (STAR) Program
    5. University of Michigan Undergraduate Summer Research Programs
    6. Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels
    7. MIT Lincoln Laboratory Summer Research Program
    8. Environmental Health Research Experience Program at the University of Washington Seattle
    9. Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Undergraduate Summer Research Program (Cornell)
    10. MURF Undergraduate Research Fellowships at Caltech
    11. Molecular and Integrative Physiology Summer Research Fellowship (University of Michigan)
    12. Summer Program in Quantitative Sciences (Harvard)

  5. Private

    1. American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Undergraduate Research Fellowship
    2. American Academy of Audiology Student Summer Research Fellowship
    3. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) Student Traineeships
    4. Roswell Park Cancer Institute Summer Research Participation Program in Science
    5. Funding for Undergraduate Science Majors (from the journal Science)  
    6. The Leadership Alliance
    7. European Undergraduate Research Opportunities
    8. Research Internships in Science and Engineering in Germany
    9. National Geographic Young Explorers Grant Program
    10. National Amgen Scholars Program
    11. Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science
    12. American Heart Association Undergraduate Student Summer Research Fellowship