Summer Research Internships for Undergraduates

Summer research opportunity programs are designed to introduce eligible undergraduates to leading scholars at the nation’s top research universities. Participating undergraduates produce graduate level research with faculty guidance over an eight- to 10-week period in the summer. Funding is often provided.

Applications are typically due in December/January. Consult the respective websites below for details and to apply.

Participation in the programs below may provide eligibility for a Cornell Graduate School application fee waiver. Please visit our fee waiver page for more information.

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Internships at Cornell University:

• Advancing Cornell Career Experiences for Science Students (ACCESS) (at Weill-Cornell)
• Center for Bright Beams (CBB) Summer REU Program
• Center for Transportation, Environment and Community Health (CTECH) REU Program
• CLASSE Summer Engineering and Research Program for Community College Students (SERCCS)
• Cornell Cardiac Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) Program
• Cornell Geopaths Geoscience Learning Ecosystem (CorGGLE)
• Cornell NanoScale Facility (CNF) REU Program
• Cornell Summer School on Designing Technology for Social Impact
• CROPPS Science and Technology Center REU  Program in Programmable Plant Systems
• Food Science Summer Scholars Program
• Gateways to the Laboratory
• Leadership Alliance Summer Research Early Identification Program
• Mathematics Summer Research Program for Undergraduates
• Molecular Biology and Genetics Research Experience for Undergraduates
• NextGenPop – summer program in population research
• Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis, and Discovery of Interface Material (PARADIM) REU Program and Summer Schools
• Plant Genome Research Experiences for Undergrads at Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell University (PGRP)
• REU Program Astrophysics and Planetary Science
• Shoals Marine Lab in Maine
• SoNIC Summer Networking and Computing Research Workshop (for Software defined Network InterfaCe)
• Summer Undergraduate Research in Science and Engineering (SUnRiSE)

Searchable Databases:

• Pathways to Science (for programs in STEM, including undergraduate summer research opportunities as well as graduate fellowships and postdoctoral positions)
• REU Finder Website (searchable database of REU programs)

National Programs:

• American Economic Association Summer Program (pre-graduate study and research)
• Graduate Horizons (four-day intensive course for Native American, Native Alaskan, and Native Hawaiian students – email considergrad@cornell.edu for more information)
• Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers (for prospective grad students interested in humanities, social sciences, and education)
• NASA New York Space Grant Consortium (must be a New York state resident or attend a college/university within New York state)
• NASA Space Grant summer internships at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at Kennedy Space Center (must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident)
• National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center Summer Student Program
• Plant Science Research Network (over 150 undergraduate research and internship opportunities in the plant sciences and related fields)
• Ralph Bunche Institute (for prospective grad students in government and political science)