Many students in biology spend a summer, typically in the junior year, participating in biology research somewhere other than Bard. Below is a list of useful sites for finding summer research positions.

Research opportunities – general boards and link collections:

• Cornell’s website has a comprehensive list of other summer research programs
• NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs
• Texas A&M Wildlife job boards

Research programs in biomedical research:

• Mayo Clinic SURF. Deadline: February 1st
• 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.
• 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
• Neuro links from rit.edu . Check also their main page.
• Pathways to science
• NIH post-bac programs (keep an eye on whether the US citizenship is required)
• NYU Neuroscience Institute

Research programs in ecology, wildlife, and conservation:

• REU’s: https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/reu_search.jsp
• 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
• Ecological jobs: http://www.eco.org
• ECOLOG: https://listserv.umd.edu/archives/ecolog-l.html

Job databases (mostly for finding a job after Bard)

• https://www.indeed.com/
• 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/

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