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The Biology Department regularly updates opportunities for students to participate in research around the country.
Below is a working list organized by the order we learn about opportunities (not by application deadlines).
- Civic Engagement at Davidson (summer opportunities)
- Dean Rusk International Sustainability Projects
- Davidson Research Initiative (DRI)
- Davidson Research Network (DRN)
- Grant Travel Award
- Research in Science Experience (RISE)
- Davidson Impact Fellows (post graduation fellowships)
- NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REU) at various institutions
- Oak Ridge National Lab
- WUSTL ENDURE Program
- Amgen Scholars Program
- North Dakota State Summer Research Program
- St. Jude's Pediatric Oncology Education Program
- Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology at Cornell
- Pathways to Science
- Pathways to Ocean Science
- RIT Science Education Research
- Summer Research in Plant Genomics at Michigan State University
- UAB Preparation for Graduate and Medical Education
- The Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship (MLEF) Program
- UT Southwestern Summer Research Programs: (SURF),(SURISKD)
- Choose Development - Society for Developmental Biology
- University of Pittsburgh Summer Research Fellowship
- Intramural NIAID Research Opportunities (INRO) program
- Harvard School of Public Health Summer Internship Program
- Biostatistics Epidemiology Summer Training (BEST) Diversity Program and the Columbia Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics (CSIBS) Program
- NIEHS Summer Internship Program
- Nebraska Summer Research Program
- Training and Experimentation in Computational Biology (TECBio)
- Undergraduate Internship in Tropical Ecology and Evolution University of Puerto Rico
- University of Massachusetts Summer Research
- Georgia Tech Summer Research in Aquatic Chemical Ecology
- Case Western Reserve University Summer Research
- University of Delaware Marine Summer Science Program
- Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at Michigan State University
- Michigan State University's Kellogg Biological Station
- Cornell University's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station
- Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College Summer Internship
- Harvard Forest Research Program
- Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) at RIT
- Department of Energy (DOE) Scholars Program
- Gateways to the Laboratory Summer Program for Pre-MD/PhD students
- Carolinas HealthCare System Summer Research Scholars Program
- Plant Genomics Research at Michigan State University
- MD Anderson Cancer Center CPRIT Summer Undergraduate Program
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL)
- UT Southwestern Medical School Research Opportunities
- Pathways to Science (REU)
- Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN)
- School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering Summer Research Internship, The University of Akron
- National Science Foundation (REU)
- American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Summer Research
- Ecological and Evolutionary Response to Rapid Environmental Change: (NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates) at UC Davis