Summer research opportunity programs are designed to introduce undergraduates to leading scholars at the nation’s top research institutions.
Participating undergraduates are engaged in graduate level research with faculty guidance over an eight- to- ten-week period in the summer. Funding is often provided. Applications are typically due in early January.
Cornell Programs
- Cornell Cooperative Extension Summer Internships
- Cornell Agri-Tech Summer Research Scholars Program
- College of Arts and Sciences Nexus Scholars Program
- Bowers CIS Undergraduate Research Experience (BURE)
- College of Engineering Student Grant Program
- Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education (CLASSE)
- Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility Research Experience for Undergraduates (CNF REU) Program
- Food Science Summer Scholars Program
- Leadership Alliance Summer Research Early Identification Program
- Molecular Biology and Genetics will consider Leadership Alliance applicants.
- Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Summer Research Program
- Mathematics REU
- Cornell Institute of Host-Microbe Interactions and Disease Undergraduate Research Program
- Molecular Biology and Genetics Research Experience for Undergraduates
- Nexus Scholars Program in Arts & Sciences
- Plant Genome Research Summer Internship
- Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis, and Discovery of Interface Materials Research Experience for Undergraduates (PARADIM REU) Program
- REU Program in Astrophysics and Planetary Science
- Shoals Marine Lab in Maine
- Space Grant– Dept of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Additional Resources
- The Cornell Graduate School lists summer research opportunities for undergraduates
- The Office of Undergraduate Biology lists summer research opportunities on their website
- The National Science Foundation lists summer research opportunities for undergraduates
- Experience.cornell.edu helps Cornell students find research opportunities