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-ten-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.

At Cornell University:

• Advancing Cornell Career Experiences for Science Students (ACCESS)
• Center for Bright Beams Summer Program
• Center for Transportation, Environment and Community Health (CTECH) REU Program
• CLASSE Summer Research Program for Community College Students (SRCCS)
• Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) REU Program
• Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education (CLASSE)
• Cornell NanoScale Facility (CNF) REU Program
• Cornell Summer School on Designing Technology for Social Impact
• Food Science Summer Scholars Program
• Gateways to the Laboratory
• Keeping Ezra’s Promise (KEP) Program
• Leadership Alliance Summer Research Early Identification Program
• Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Summer Research Program (LSAMP)
• Mathematics Summer Research Program for Undergraduates
• Microbial Friends and Foes Research Experience for Undergraduates
• Molecular Biology and Genetics Research Experience for Undergraduates
• National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center Summer Student Program
• New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, Summer Research Scholars Program (must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident)
• NASA Space Grant summer internships at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at Kennedy Space Center (must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident)
• NASA Space Grant summer internships at Cornell (must be a New York state resident or attend a college/university within New York State)
• Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis, and Discovery of Interface Material (PARADIM) REU Program and Summer Schools
• Plant Genome Research Summer Internship
• REU Program in Observation Astronomy
• Shoals Marine Lab in Maine
• SoNIC Summer Research Workshop (for SOftware defined Network InterfaCe)
• Summer Mathematics Institute (check website for availability)
• Summer Undergraduate Research in Science and Engineering (SUnRiSE)
• Travelers Summer Research Program

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)
• Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers (for prospective grad students interested in humanities, social sciences, and education)
• Pathways to Science (for programs in STEM, including undergraduate summer research opportunities as well as graduate fellowships and post-doctoral positions 
• 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)