About REUs
What is a Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates?
Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) refer to a variety of programmatic opportunities offered through universities, national societies, and other scientific organizations. An REU site usually hosts around 10 undergraduate students working in the host institution's research programs and associated with a specific project. Participants may be granted stipends and/or assistance with housing and travel.
REUs are available in all fields and provide high-level research experiences for undergraduates. They support the active participation of undergraduates in diverse fields of scientific research and may be hosted within the United States or internationally.
Opportunities at Iowa State
- Aerospace Engineering REU (LAUNCH-UAS)
- American Physiological Society Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship
- BioMAP (Biological Materials and Processes)
- Biomass Processing Technology and Wind Turbine Aeromechanics
- CBiRC (Center for Biorenewable Chemicals)
- Community College Internships
- CenUSA (Bioenergy Research Internship Experience for Undergraduates)
- CCEFP (Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power)
- Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence
- Data Science for the Public Good Young Scholars Program
- Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Opportunities
- GWC (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences George Washington Carver Internship)
- HHMI (Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Internship Program)
- Honors Summer Mentor Program
- IINSPIRE LSAMP (Iowa Illinois Nebraska STEM Parternship for Innovation in Research and Education, NSF Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation)
- MRE (Mathematics Research Experience)
- MoSAIc (Microscale Sensing Actuation and Imaging)
- RISE UP (Research Initiatives for Student Enhancement - Undergraduate Program)
- SPIRE-EIT (Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education - Emerging Interface Technologies)
- SULI (Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships)
- Translational AI Center REU Program
- Visiting Faculty Program
- WESEP (Wind Energy, Science, Engineering and Policy)
Opportunities in the US
- Amherst College REUs in Neuroscience and Biomedical Sciences
- Arizona State University Center for Bio-mediated & Bio-inspired Geotechnics REU
- Arizona State University Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute REU
- Association of American Medical Colleges GREAT Summer REUs
- Baylor College of Medicine SMART Program
- Baylor University CASPER REU Program (Astrophysics, Space Physics & Engineering)
- Boise State University Mathematics REU
- Boston University Bioinformatics Research and Interdisciplinary Training Experience REU
- Boston University School of Public Health Summer Institute for Research Education in Biostatics
- Boston University NSF REU in Integrated Nanomanufacturing
- Boston University Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
- Brandeis University Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
- Brandeis University REUs (Biological and Physical Sciences)
- Brigham Young University STARS Program (Medicine)
- Brooklyn College Psychology and Neuroscience REU
- Bryn Mawr MathILY-EST REU
- California Institute of Technology Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
- California State University Monterey Bay Regional Ocean Science REU
- California State University San Bernadino REU in Mathematics
- Case Western Reserve University REU in Polymers
- Case Western Reserve University Research Opportunities
- Case Western Reserve University Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Pharmacoloy
- Central Michigan University Great Lakes REU (Biology and Ecology)
- Clark University Human-Environment Regional Observatory (Environmental Change)
- Clarkson University Advancing Sustainable Systems and Environmental Technologies to Serve Humanity REU
- Clarkson University High Performance Computing with Engineering Applications REU
- Clemson University Summer Undergraduate Research Experience in Solid-State Devices
- Coe College REUs (Physics, Chemistry, and Biology)
- College of Charleston Fort Johnson Summer REU program (Marine Sciences)
- Colorado State University Biochemistry and Molecular Biology REU
- Colorado State University Natural Sciences REU
- Columbia University Biostatics Epidemiology Summer Training
- Columbia University Earth Institute Lamont Summer Intern Program (Earth and Ocean Sciences)
- Columbia University Nevis Laboratories REU (Physics and Astrophysics)
- Columbus State University REU in Computer Science
- Cornell University Advancing Cornell Career Experiences for Science Students Summer Internship(Biology & Medicine)
- Cornell University Astronomy REU
- Cornell University Center for Transportation, Environment, & Community Health REU
- Cornell University Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education REU
- Cornell University Molecular Biology and Genetics REU
- Cornell University National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network REU
- Dartmouth University Academic Summer Undergraduate Research Experience
- Dartmouth MD-PhD Undergraduate Summer Fellowship
- DePaul University & University of Chicago Joint Medical Informatics Program (MedIx)
- Duke University Biomedical Summer Research Opportunity Program
- Duke University Engineering REU
- Duke University Estuarine & Coastal Marine Sciences REU
- Duke University Summer Undergraduate Research in Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
- Eastern Kentucky University REU: Disturbance Ecology in Central Appalachia
- Florida A&M University-Florida State University Research Entrepreneurship and Advanced-materials Training
- Florida International University Cyber Security REUs
- Georgetown University Physics REUs
- Georgia Institute of Technology Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines SURE Program in Robotics
- Georgia Southern University Chemistry REU
- Georgia Tech Biological Sciences REU in Aquatic Chemical Ecology
- Grand Valley State REU in Mathematics
- Harvard College Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program (Biology and Biomedicine)
- Harvard Forest Summer Research Program (Ecology)
- Harvard University Summer Program in Epidemiology
- Harvard University Summer Research Opportunities
- Indiana University Bloomington Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior REU
- Indiana University Bloomington Department of Mathematics REU
- Johns Hopkins Program in Computational Sensing and Medical Robotics (CSMR)
- Kansas State University Chemical Engineering REU
- Kansas State University Chemistry REU
- Kansas State University Physics REU
- Kansas State University Summer Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program
- Lehigh University Physics REU
- Louisiana State University Center for Computation and Technology REU
- Louisiana State University Consortium for Innovation in Manufacturing and Materials
- Louisiana State University Smart Polymer Composite Materials and Structures REU
- Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium REUs (Coastal Environments)
- Marquette University Biological Sciences REU
- Medical College of Wisconin Summer Enrichment Programs (Medicine)
- Medical University of South Carolina Summer Undergraduate Research Program (Biomedical Sciences)
- Meharry Medical College Cancer Summer Undergraduate Research Program (Cancer Research)
- Miami University REU: Ecology in Human Dominated Landscapes
- Michigan State University Advanced Computational Research Experience
- Michigan State Univresity Biology REUs
- Michigan State University Plant Genomics REU
- MIT Biology Summer Research Program
- MIT Haystack Observatory (Science, Engineering, and Computer Science)
- MIT Summer Research Program
- Montana State University Astronomy and Space Physics REU
- Morgan State University Summer Internship Program (Environmental and Aquatic Studies)
- New York Institute of Technology REU: Research on Security of Mobile Devices and Wireless Networks
- New York University Center for Neural Science Summer Undergraduate Research Program
- New York University Materials Research Science and Engineering Center REU
- North Carolina State University Basic and Environmental Soil Science Training REU
- North Carolina State University Entomoloy and Plant Pathology REU
- North Carolina State University Integrative Molecular Plant Systems Research Experience
- North Carolina State Summer Institute in Biostatics
- North Carolina State University RISE (Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering)
- North Carolina State University Science of Software REU
- North Dakota State University Coatings and Polymeric Materials Summer Undergraduate Research Experience
- North Dakota State University Pollination Nation REU
- North Dakota State University REU in Discipline-Based Education Research
- Northern Arizona State University Environmental Education Outreach Program
- Northwestern University Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
- Ohio State University Mathematical Biosciences Institute Summer REU
- Oregon State University Sea Grant Summer Scholars
- Pennsylvania State Climate Science REU
- Quantitative and Physical Science SURF Program
- Rockefeller Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (Biology and Chemistry)
- Salisbury University REU in Computing in Science and Engineering
- Savannah State University Bridge to Research in Marine Sciences
- Stanford Summer Research Program in Biomedical Sciences (SSRP)
- STEMSEAS - Division of Marine and Large Programs (Columbia University)
- Texas A & M University Undergraduate Research Opportunities
- Undergraduate Research Programs at CalTech
- University of Arizona Biosphere 2 REU (Environmental & Earth Systems Science)
- University of California Berkeley NSF Summer REU Program in Cell, Developmental, and Evolutionary Biology
- University of California Berkeley Summer Opportunities
- University of California Berkeley Summer REU in Engineering Research - Computer Science in the Interest of Society (SUPERB-CSIS) SUPERB-CSIS: Summer REU in Engineering Research at Berkeley
- University of California, Irvine Undergraduate Research Opportunities
- UCLA Summer Programs for Undergraduate Research (SPUR)
- UCSF Summer Research Training Program (Health Sciences)
- University of Colorado Boulder REU Program in Solar and Space Physics
- University of Georgia Fungal Genomics and Computational Biology
- University of Hawai'i 'Ike Wai Project (Water Issues)
- University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute SEANET Program
- University of Maine Sea Grant (Coastal and Ocean Sciences)
- The University of Maryland School of Public Health Summer Training and Research (STAR) Program
- University of Massachusetts Medical School Summer Undergraduate Research Program
- University of Michigan Medical School Undergraduate Research Programs
- University of Minnesota Center for Sustainable Polymers REU
- University of Missouri Summer Undergraduate Research Programs
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas REU: Mechanisms of Evolution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute for the Environment REU
- University of North Dakota Genes and the Environment REU
- University of Pittsburgh Human Engineering Research Laboraties ASPIRE Program
- University of Rochester Medical Center Summer Scholars Program
- University of Washington Clean Energy Institute REU
- Virginia Commonwealth University REU in Mathematics
- >Washington University in St. Louis Center for Engineering MechanoBiology Summer REU Program
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Watson School of Biological Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program
- DOE Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Earth Observing Laboratory Summer Undergraduate Program for Engineering Research
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory REUs
- ORISE and ORAU
- SETI Institute's REU Program in Astrobiology
- Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory
- Albert Einstein Summer Undergraduate Research Program (Biomedical Sciences)
- American Association for the Advancement of Science Diverse Voices in Science Journalism Internship
- American Association for the Advancement of Science Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship
- American Chemical Society
- American Chemical Society International REU in Materials Science and Chemistry
- American Mathematical Society
- American Museum of Natural History REU Biology Program
- American Museum of Natural History Undergraduate Fellowships (Evolutionary Biology & Physical Sciences)
- American Physiological Society Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships (Physiology)
- American Political Science Association Ralph Bunche Summer Institute Program
- American Society for Microbiology Research Capstone Fellowship
- Amgen Scholars Program (Science & Biotechnology)
- ASSIST Summer REU (Science & Engineering)
- BD2K-LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center Summer Research Training Program in Biomedical Big Data Science
- Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences REU
- Big 10 Academic Alliance Summer Research Opportunities Program
- Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Undergraduate Research Experience
- BioXFEL Undergraduate Internships (Physics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Mathematics, & Computer Science)
- Blandy Experimental Farm REUs (Ecology & Environmental Science)
- Boyce Thompson Institute NSF-REU Undergraduate Plant Genome Research Internship
- Broad Institute Summer Research Program (Biomedical Sciences & Genomics)
- California Academy of Sciences Summer Systematics Institute
- Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
- Center for Bright Beams REU
- Center for Cell Manufacturing Technologies REU
- Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science Summer REU
- The Center for Language and Speech Processing Summer Internships
- Center for Selective Functionalization Chemistry Summer Undergraduate Research Program
- Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology REU Program
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Intern and Fellowship Programs (Public Health)
- Chicago Botanic Garden REU (Plant Biology & Conservation)
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute Injury Science REU
- Committee on Institutional Cooperation Summer Research Program
- Data Observation Network for Earth Summer Internship Program (Biodiversity & Environmental Studies)
- Dauphin Island Sea Lab Discovery Hall Programs (Marine Science & Environmental Education)
- Dauphin Island Sea Lab REU (Ecology, Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Biomedicine, Physical and Environmental Sciences)
- Design SAFE-CI Nheri REU (Engineering, Cyber Infrastructure, & Data Management)
- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center REU
- Ecological Society of America SPUR Fellowship
- Engineering Research Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology REU
- Fred Hutch Summer Undergraduate Internships (Biomedical Sciences)
- Freedm Systems Center REU and Year-Long Undergraduate Research Program (Computer Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Material Sciences Engineering, & Computer Science)
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics REU Program
- Haskell Environmental Research Studies Internship Program
- Institute for Coastal Plain Science Interdisciplinary REU
- IRIS Internship Program in Seismological Research
- The iSchool Inclusion Institute (Information Sciences)
- The Jackson Laboratory Summer Student Program (Genetics)
- Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium
- Leadership Alliance
- Louisiana Biomedical Research Network
- Lunar and Planetary Institute Summer Intern Program
- Maine Medical Center Summer Student Research Program
- Maine Space Grant Consortium
- Maria Mitchell Association Astronomy REU
- MDI Biological Laboratory Undergraduate Student Summer Fellowships
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Summer Internship Program
- Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium REU
- National Technical Institute for the Deaf REU in Applying Mathematical and Statistical Methods to Problems from the Sciences
- Nemours Biomedical Research Department Summer Undergraduate Research Program
- NEPARS REU (Atmospheric Sciences)
- Pathways to Science Database
- ReNUWIt Summer Research Internships
- Research Experiences in Solid Earth Science for Students
- Rosetta Commons REU in Computational Biomolecular Structure and Design
- Sens Research Foundation Summer Scholars Program (Medicine)
- Shoals Marine Laboratory Research Internships
- Society of Physics Students Internships
- Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor Undergraduate Internship
- STROBE Undergraduate Research Scholars (Imaging Science)
- Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP)
- Undergraduate Pipeline Network Summer REU (Health Sciences)
- Urban Water Innovation Network Trandisciplinary Research Program for Undergraduates in Sustainable Urban Water Systems
- Air Force Research Laboratory Scholars Program
- Alaska Fisheries Science Center
- Critical Skills Internship Opportunities
- DOJ Office on Violence Against Woman Internships
- DOJ Undergraduate Internships
- The Goddard Space Flight Center's (GSFC) Internship
- Information Directorate of the Air Force Laboratory Summer Internship
- Internship and Fellowship Opportunities in Science
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- NASA BIG Idea Challenge
- NASA Education Projects
- NASA Summer Undergraduate Program for Planetary Research
- National Academies Science Policy Fellowship
- National Astronomy Consortium Undergraduate Experience
- National Cancer Institute's Summer Cancer Research Fellowship/Internship Program
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory Summer Student Research Assistantships
- National Weather Center Real-World Research Experiences for Undergraduates
- NOAA EPP/MSI Undergraduate Scholarship Program
- NOAA Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship
- NOAA Undergraduate Opportunities
- NSF Science and Technology Centers, Summer Internships
- National Institute of Health Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research
- NSA Student Programs
- Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program
- Research and Engineering Apprenticeship Program
- Research at NASA's Glenn Research Center
- Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships
- Summer Internships in Science and Technology
- Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program
- US Department of Homeland Security
- Woods Hole Partnership Education Program: Increasing Diversity in the Ocean and Environmental Sciences
- American Heart Association, Founders Affiliate Undergraduate Student Summer Fellowship Program
- American Society for Microbiology Undergraduate Research Fellowship
- Center for Systems Biology Undergraduate Summer Internship Program
- Four Directions Summer Research Program
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Summer Intern Program
- Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center Summer Undergraduate Research Program
- GSK Summer Undergraduate Research Program
- Health Education Research Opportunity (HERO)
- Integrated Biological Sciences Summer Research Program
- Life Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program (LSSURP)
- Medical Scientist Training Program (MD, PhD)
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Quantitative Sciences Undergraduate Research Experience
- Missouri Botanical Garden REUs
- NYU Summer Undergraduate Research Program
- Short-Term Training Program to Increase Diversity in Health-Related Research
- Summer Biomedical Training Program
- Summer Medical and Research Training Program
- Summer Research Internship Program in Biomedicine
- Summer Research Program at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute
- Summer Research Program for Undergraduate Minority Students at Tufts University
- Broad Summer Research Program (BSRP)
- Summer Student Intern Program at Jackson Laboratory
- Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR)
- Summer Undergraduate Program for Education Radiation Scientists
- Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Molecular and Quantitative and Computational Biology
- SURF Program (Biomedical Sciences)
- Duke University Summer Research Opportunities
- The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Internship Challenge
- The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease STEP-UP Program
- The Stanford Summer Research Program in Biomedical Sciences (SSRP)
- The University of Maryland School of Public Health Summer Training and Research (STAR) Program
- University of Massachusetts Medical School Summer Undergraduate Research Program
- University of Michigan Medical School Undergraduate Research Programs
- University of Rochester Medical Center Summer Scholars Program
- New York University School of Medicine Summer Undergraduate Research Program
- NIH Biomedical Engineering Summer Internship Program
- NIH Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Diseases Undergraduate Student Scholars Program
- NIH Clincial Center Summer Internships
- NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse Research Training for Under-represented Populations in Science
- NIH Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research
- NIH Summer Internship in the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- NIH Summer Research Programs
- University of Massachusetts Medical School Summer Undergraduate Research Program
- University of Michigan Medical School Undergraduate Research Programs
- University of Rochester Medical Center Summer Scholars Program
- University of Washington Neurological Surgery Summer Student Program
- Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Scholars Program
- Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN)
- Center for Nanoscale Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems
- IBM Almaden Research Center
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory Summer Undergraduate Research Program
- Naval Research Enterprise Intern Program (NREIP)
- NIST SURFing the Physics Laboratory
- Science and Engineering Apprenticeship Program (SEAP)
- Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Space Astronomy Summer Program
- Stanford Student Undergraduate Laboratory Internship Program (SULI)
- Summer Research in Geosciences and Engineering (SURGE)
- The Seyfert Prize Fellowship for Undergraduate Research
- UCLA NSF Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Summer Research Scholars
- University of Colorado SMART Program
Opportunities Abroad
- CERN Summer Student Program (Physics, Computing, Engineering, & Mathematics)
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Life Sciences)
- Ecole Polytechnique Internship Program for International Students (Chemistry, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Mechanics, & Physics)
- The Euroscholars Program
- Excavations at Tel Dor in Israel
- The German Aacademic Exchange Service (DAAD) Undergraduate Scholarship Program
- Ku Leuven Internships
- Multidisciplinary International Research Training Program (MIRT)
- Nano Japan International Experience for Undergraduates Program (Engineering & Physics)
- NanoLive Scientists of Tomorrow
- The Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy (ASTRON) and the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE) Summer Research Programme
- NSF International Research Experience for Students Program
- The Open School of Ethnography and Anthropology
- The Pasteur Foundation Internship Program (Biosciences & Biomedicine)
- RWTH Aachen University Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
- School for Field Studies International Research Experiences
- Singapore International Pre-Graduate Award (Biomedical & Physical Sciences)
- SIT Study Abroad
- ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship Program