Opportunities away from Bard
Many students in biology spend a summer, typically in the junior year, being involved in biology somewhere other than Bard. Participating in research is one way to do this, and we provide links below to search for research opportunities. We also encourage students to pursue other dimensions of their lives during the summer. In particular, see the links to job boards at the bottom of this page for other kinds of opportunities, science-related or not.
Posting boards:
Adapted from a list by Carlos Aizenman, Brown U. (Original link)
Posting boards:
- NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs at various institutions
- Research opportunities that accept international students interested in pre-health
- Research programs that accept international students
- Research programs that accept undocumented students
- NIH Summer Internship Programs, at various institutions
- Leadership Alliance summer research programs
- Pathways to Science, which focuses on increasing diversity in STEM and provides comprehensive access to research programs and summer opportunities for everyone.
- Cornell’s website has a comprehensive list of summer research programs
- Texas A&M Wildlife job boards is a clearinghouse for jobs in field biology, including summer positions
- Mayo Clinic SURF
- Mayo Clinic Summer Lab Science (for students interested in working in labs that process clinical samples).
- MIT Biology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences Summer program.
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Undergraduate Research Program.
- Keck Graduate Institute SURE program
- Merck Summer Internships
- University of Minnesota Life Sciences Summer Undergraduate Program
- University of Wisconsin Integrated Biological Sciences Summer Program.
- University of Nebraska Medical Center SURP
- Links from MBB Harvard
- Pathways to science
- NIH post-bac programs (keep an eye on whether the US citizenship is required)
- NYU Neuroscience Institute
- NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs at various institutions
- Texas A&M Wildlife job boards is a great place to find a job as a research technician for summer or longer
- Conservation Biology jobs: http://careers.conbio.org/jobs/
- Bird Jobs: https://www.osnabirds.org/Jobs.aspx
- Wildlife Jobs: http://wfscjobs.tamu.edu/job-board/
- Student Conservation Association for paid and unpaid internships: http://www.thesca.org
- ECOLOG: https://listserv.umd.edu/archives/ecolog-l.html is another clearinghouse for ecology-related jobs
Adapted from a list by Carlos Aizenman, Brown U. (Original link)
- Columbia University STAR-U, NY – Summer of Translational Aging Research for Undergraduates, 10 Week Program
- University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center (FCVC): Ten week Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) focused on cardiovascular research
- WUSTL ENDURE: Washington University St. Louis summer neuroscience
- Undergraduate Research Program at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Many options of labs, several of them neuroscience.
- HHMI Undergraduate Scholars Program: Neuroscience research at the Janelia campus. Only for advanced undergraduates
- SPUR Programs at UCLA: Various sub programs focusing on various topics, usually 10 weeks summer
- BDBS Summer Program at Tufts
- Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Molecular and Developmental Neurobiology, Rutgers university, 10 weeks, summer.
- Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia Research Institute Summer Scholars Program
- UPenn Summer Undergraduate Internship Program: designed to provide an intense research experience to students interested in graduate study in the biomedical sciences.
- SURE at University at Buffalo: Intended for students thinking about PhD program, not for premeds.
- CLIMB UP at University at Buffalo: Career development and summer research tailored to each student.
- Neuro links from rit.edu . Check their main page also.
- https://www.indeed.com/
- internships.com -- allows you to filter by whether positions are paid or unpaid
- idealist.org
- coolworks.com -- typically non-science jobs in amazing locations
- Rockefeller U jobs
- The Nature Conservancy
- Conservation Job Board: https://www.conservationjobboard.com/
- EcoJobs: http://www.ecojobs.com/
- EcoEmploy (you can search by state and it will give you a big list of companies/agencies/non profits): http://www.ecoemploy.com/
