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.

Posting boards and Link aggregators:

• NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs:
  https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/
• NIH Summer Internship Programs, various institutions:
  https://www.training.nih.gov/programs/sip
• Leadership Alliance, summer research at partner institutions: https://www.theleadershipalliance.org
• Cornell’s website has a comprehensive list of other summer research programs
• Texas A&M Wildlife job boards

Biomedical research (updated fall 2018):

• 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.
• 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

Ecology, wildlife, and conservation (updated fall 2018):

• 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

Neuroscience internships (updated fall 2019):
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.

Job sites and databases:

• 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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