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NASA

(Washington, DC)
Gateways to Blue Skies Competition: AgAir | Aviation Solutions for Agriculture
The agriculture industry plays a vital role in providing food, fuel, and fiber for the global population. It not only sustains human life but also con ... read more

Human Lander Challenge (HuLC)
When Artemis astronauts land on the Moon, their spacecraft will stir up a cloud of dust. This effect is called plume-surface interaction (PSI) and it ... read more

NASA Internships and Fellowships
NASA offers a wide variety of paid summer, spring, and fall semester internships, as well as some graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships ... read more
portable funding
NASA Postdoctoral Program
The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) supports NASA's goal to expand scientific understanding of Earth and the universe in which we live.

The NASA Pos ... read more


NASA's BIG Idea Challenge: Inflatables for Lunar Operations
NASA is looking for novel and cost-effective technologies and applications that utilize inflatable systems to support Artemis missions. Artemis is the ... read more
funds international students
Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkages (RASC-AL) Competition
NASA is pioneering the future of space exploration as we extend humanity's presence further into the solar system. The RASC-AL Competition is seeking ... read more

Undergraduate STEM Research Scholarship Program
The VSGC Undergraduate STEM Research Scholarship Program provides awards of up to $8,500 to rising juniors and seniors who are enrolled full-time in a ... read more


NASA Ames Research Center

(Moffett Field, CA)
NASA Internships and Fellowships
NASA offers a wide variety of paid summer, spring, and fall semester internships, as well as some graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships ... read more
portable funding
NASA's Space Life Sciences Training Program Summer Internship
The Space Life Sciences Training Program (SLSTP) provides undergraduate students entering their junior or senior years, and entering graduate students ... read more


NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

(Edwards, CA)
NASA Internships and Fellowships
NASA offers a wide variety of paid summer, spring, and fall semester internships, as well as some graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships ... read more
portable funding

NASA Glenn Research Center

(Cleveland, OH)
NASA Internships and Fellowships
NASA offers a wide variety of paid summer, spring, and fall semester internships, as well as some graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships ... read more
portable funding

NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies

(New York, NY)
NASA Internships and Fellowships
NASA offers a wide variety of paid summer, spring, and fall semester internships, as well as some graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships ... read more
portable funding

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

(Greenbelt, MD)
NASA Internships and Fellowships
NASA offers a wide variety of paid summer, spring, and fall semester internships, as well as some graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships ... read more
portable funding

NASA IV and V Facility

(Fairmont, WV)
NASA Internships and Fellowships
NASA offers a wide variety of paid summer, spring, and fall semester internships, as well as some graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships ... read more
portable funding

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

(Pasadena, CA)
NASA Internships and Fellowships
NASA offers a wide variety of paid summer, spring, and fall semester internships, as well as some graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships ... read more
portable funding

NASA Johnson Space Center

(Houston, TX)
NASA Internships and Fellowships
NASA offers a wide variety of paid summer, spring, and fall semester internships, as well as some graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships ... read more
portable funding

NASA Kennedy Space Center

(Kennedy Space Center, FL)
NASA Internships and Fellowships
NASA offers a wide variety of paid summer, spring, and fall semester internships, as well as some graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships ... read more
portable funding

NASA Langley Research Center

(Hampton, VA)
NASA Internships and Fellowships
NASA offers a wide variety of paid summer, spring, and fall semester internships, as well as some graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships ... read more
portable funding
NASA's BIG Idea Challenge: Inflatables for Lunar Operations
NASA is looking for novel and cost-effective technologies and applications that utilize inflatable systems to support Artemis missions. Artemis is the ... read more
funds international students

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

(Huntsville, AL)
Human Lander Challenge (HuLC)
When Artemis astronauts land on the Moon, their spacecraft will stir up a cloud of dust. This effect is called plume-surface interaction (PSI) and it ... read more

NASA Internships and Fellowships
NASA offers a wide variety of paid summer, spring, and fall semester internships, as well as some graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships ... read more
portable funding

NASA Shared Services Center

(Bay St Louis, MS)
NASA Internships and Fellowships
NASA offers a wide variety of paid summer, spring, and fall semester internships, as well as some graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships ... read more
portable funding

NASA Stennis Space Center

(Bay St Louis, MS)
NASA Internships and Fellowships
NASA offers a wide variety of paid summer, spring, and fall semester internships, as well as some graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships ... read more
portable funding

NASA Wallops Flight Facility

(Wallops Island, VA)
NASA Internships and Fellowships
NASA offers a wide variety of paid summer, spring, and fall semester internships, as well as some graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships ... read more
portable funding

NASA White Sands Test Facility

(Las Cruces, NM)
NASA Internships and Fellowships
NASA offers a wide variety of paid summer, spring, and fall semester internships, as well as some graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships ... read more
portable funding

National Academies, The

(Washington, DC)
Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
The Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program, now in its 20th year, provides early career individuals with the oppor ... read more
funds international students
Gulf Research Program Early-Career Research Fellowship: Human Health and Community Resilience Track
The Gulf Research Program's Early-Career Research Fellowship supports emerging scientific leaders as they take risks on research ideas not yet tested, ... read more
funds international students
Gulf Research Program Science Policy Fellowship
The Gulf Research Program's Science Policy Fellowship program helps scientists hone their skills by putting them to practice for the benefit of Gulf C ... read more
portable funding
NRC Research Associateship Programs
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine administers postdoctoral and senior research awards at participating federal laboratorie ... read more
an IBP member programnationwide programfunds international students

National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME)

(White Plains, NY)
NACME Administered Scholarships
Through the NACME Scholars Program, NACME provides block grants to colleges and universities that, in turn, award the money to talented African Americ ... read more
opportunityportable funding
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Minority Ph.D. Program
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Minority Ph.D. Program—managed by NACME—has two components. The Ph.D. component offers substantial scholarship suppor ... read more
nationwide program

National GEM Consortium (GEM)

(Washington, DC)
The National GEM Consortium Graduate Fellowships in Science, Engineering, and STEM fields
The GEM Fellowship provides a unique and powerful connection to a national network of universities and employers. This partnership promotes the partic ... read more
an IBP member programportable funding

National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

(Tallahassee, FL)
National High Magnetic Field Lab REU
The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) is an exciting summer program for college students ... read more

National High Magnetic Field Laboratory RET
The program will run for 7-weeks. Accepted applicants will meet regularly via Zoom two days a week: Tuesdays 4 pm – 6 pm and Thursdays 4 pm – 6 pm Eas ... read more


National Institute of Aerospace

(Hampton, VA)
Gateways to Blue Skies Competition: AgAir | Aviation Solutions for Agriculture
The agriculture industry plays a vital role in providing food, fuel, and fiber for the global population. It not only sustains human life but also con ... read more

Human Lander Challenge (HuLC)
When Artemis astronauts land on the Moon, their spacecraft will stir up a cloud of dust. This effect is called plume-surface interaction (PSI) and it ... read more

Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkages (RASC-AL) Competition
NASA is pioneering the future of space exploration as we extend humanity's presence further into the solar system. The RASC-AL Competition is seeking ... read more


National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder

(Boulder, CO)
NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program (Virtual)
Since 1993, SURF students from across the country have had the opportunity to gain valuable, hands-on experience, working with cutting edge technology ... read more


National Institutes of Health (NIH)

(Bethesda, MD)
Biomedical Engineering Summer Internship Program (BESIP)
The NIBIB sponsored Biomedical Engineering Summer Internship (BESIP) is for undergraduate biomedical engineering students who have completed their jun ... read more

Individual Graduate Partnerships Program
Graduate students currently enrolled in a PhD training program come to NIH laboratories to enhance their dissertation research by developing an Indivi ... read more
portable funding
Individual Predoctoral Fellowships to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
The purpose of the Kirschstein-NRSA predoctoral fellowship (F31) award is to enable promising predoctoral students to obtain individualized, mentored ... read more
portable funding
Intramural Loan Repayment Programs
You do the research. NIH will repay your student loans. That is the idea behind the National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs). ... read more
portable funding
National Institute of Environmental Health Services-Scholars Connect Program
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) office is seeking undergraduate students to parti ... read more

NIH HuBMAP Underrepresented Student Internship
The Underrepresented Student Internship Program provides the opportunity for undergraduate students from US colleges and universities to receive mento ... read more
funds international students
NIH NIAID Technology Transfer Fellowship Program
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Office (TTIPO) is seeking motivated a ... read more

Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA)
The NIH Postbac IRTA program (CRTA, Cancer Research Training Award, in the National Cancer Institute) provides recent college graduates who are planni ... read more


National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

(Washington, DC)
NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowships
NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellows focus on observing, understanding, modeling, and predicting climate variability and change on seas ... read more
portable fundingfunds international students
REU Site: Real-World Research Experiences for Undergraduates at the National Weather Center
The National Weather Center (NWC) in Norman, Oklahoma invites motivated undergraduate students from any major who are interested in a career in scient ... read more


National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville

(Charlottesville, VA)
Summer Student Research Program at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) provides research opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students through its summer studen ... read more
an IBP member programfunds international students
VA-NC Alliance Summer Program for Undergraduates
Undergraduate students who are interested in majoring in a STEM field and affiliated with the Virginia-North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minori ... read more


National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank

(Green Bank, WV)
Summer Student Research Program at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) provides research opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students through its summer studen ... read more
an IBP member programfunds international students

National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro

(Socorro, NM)
Summer Student Research Program at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) provides research opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students through its summer studen ... read more
an IBP member programfunds international students

Native Forward Scholars Fund

(Albuquerque, NM)
Scholarships for American Indian and Alaska Native Students
Native Forward Scholars Fund (formerly known as American Indian Graduate Center) offers more than 30 scholarships and fellowships that fund undergradu ... read more
portable funding

Nebraska Indian Community College

(Macy, NE)
NASA Nebraska Space Grant & EPSCoR
As part of NASA's National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program, we are funded to promote aerospace-related research, education, and public serv ... read more
portable funding

New Jersey Institute of Technology

(Newark, NJ)
NSF/AMP Undergraduate Research Program
The National Science Foundation and Philadelphia Region Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NSF/AMP) Undergraduate Research Program allo ... read more


New Mexico State University

(Las Cruces, NM)
Academic Science Education and Research Training (ASERT)
The Academic Science Education and Research Training (ASERT) program for postdoctoral fellows provides three years of support to fellows wishing to ac ... read more

Research Experience in Biomediated and BioInspired Geotechnics
We are seeking innovative, sustainability-minded, engineering and science undergraduates to participate in an 8-week paid summer program that focuses ... read more
an IBP member program

New York Genome Center (NYGC)

(New York, NY)
NIH HuBMAP Underrepresented Student Internship
The Underrepresented Student Internship Program provides the opportunity for undergraduate students from US colleges and universities to receive mento ... read more
funds international students

New York University

(New York, NY)
Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at NYU Grosssman School of Medicine, Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)
At NYU Grossman School of Medicine, our Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences offers qualified college students who have completed their so ... read more


North Carolina A&T State University

(Greensboro, NC)
Initiative to Maximize Student Development (IMSD)
Brown's Initiative to Maximize Student Development (IMSD) program is a research training initiative that provides support for pre-doctoral students fr ... read more

SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Salary and Benefits: Fellowship salary will be competitive with federal guidelines as set by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with annual incr ... read more

STEPS Research Experience for Undergraduates and Research Experience for Future Farmers
The Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability (STEPS) Center will support 15 students for ten weeks during the summer through a multi-ins ... read more


North Carolina Central University

(Durham, NC)
Cellular & Molecular Mechanics and Bio-Nanotechnology IGERT
The goal of this Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award is to create a graduate training program that will produce the nex ... read more

SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Salary and Benefits: Fellowship salary will be competitive with federal guidelines as set by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with annual incr ... read more


North Carolina State University

(Raleigh, NC)
ASSIST Nanosystems Engineering Research Center REU program
The summer REU program offers research opportunities for domestic undergraduates from institutions outside of the ASSIST center. The program is open ... read more

Food Science Summer Scholars Program
NC State University's Summer Scholars program recruits top students from across the country to develop their skills in food science research, educatio ... read more
funds international students
Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity
The North Carolina State Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity (IMSD) Program is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The program ... read more

Research Institute Summer Experience (RISE) in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conduct state-of-the-art research related to civil and environmental engineering problems

-Be mentored by NC State faculty, post-doctoral fellows, o ... read more

funds international students
Research Triangle – Research Experience for Undergraduates (RT-REU) on Hybrid Perovskite Materials
The RTNN hosts a collaborative REU site that leverages the strength of collaborative research on hybrid materials, specifically hybrid perovskites, to ... read more

STEPS Research Experience for Undergraduates and Research Experience for Future Farmers
The Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability (STEPS) Center will support 15 students for ten weeks during the summer through a multi-ins ... read more


North Dakota State University

(Fargo, ND)
Summer REU opportunity in Chemistry fields
Undergraduate students: looking for a summer research opportunity? This summer, North Dakota State University is offering an undergraduate research ex ... read more
funds international students
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE): Research program for chemistry, Materials Science and Chemical Engineering
There is a wonderful opportunity awaiting students at North Dakota State University. Once again, the Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials ( ... read more
funds international students
Watershed Management Research and Outreach Internship Program
Water resource management is complex and professionals in the field need an understanding of agriculture, natural resources, communication, social sci ... read more


Northeastern Illinois University

(Chicago, IL)
REU- Water quality and resources in Mexico
This summer, our team will embark on an investigative mission concerning groundwater resources in the Yucatan Peninsula. This research initiative, gen ... read more
study abroad program

Northeastern University

(Boston, MA)
DHS Summer Research Team Program for Minority Serving Institutions
The purpose of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Summer Research Team (SRT) Program is to increase and enhance the scientific leadership ... read more

Paid Rosetta Commons Research Experience for Undergraduates
Interns in this geographically-distributed REU program have the opportunity to participate in research using the Rosetta Commons software. The Rosetta ... read more
an IBP member programstudy abroad programfunds international students

Northern Arizona University

(Flagstaff, AZ)
Astronomy REU
Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff, Arizona, has been a Research Experiences for Undergraduates site sponsored by the National Science Fou ... read more

ITEP Summer Internship Programs
Since 1994, the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP) has offered student summer internships for Native American and other college s ... read more
an IBP member program

Northern Illinois University

(DeKalb, IL)
REU- Water quality and resources in Mexico
This summer, our team will embark on an investigative mission concerning groundwater resources in the Yucatan Peninsula. This research initiative, gen ... read more
study abroad program

Northwestern University

(Evanston, IL)
Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand REU
The IMOD Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program supports undergraduate students (2yr and 4yr institutions) to participate in nine- to te ... read more

CIERA Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU): Astrophysics in its Modern Interdisciplinary Context
Northwestern University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) is the proud host of a NSF-funded Research Exp ... read more

CURE Summer Research Program in the biomedical sciences
CURE (Cancer Undergraduate Research and Education) is an undergraduate summer research program for underserved college students who are interested in ... read more

Materials Research Science and Engineering Center: Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates
The NU-Materials Research Science and Engineering Center Summer REU program is a 9 week interdisciplinary program focused on multi-functional nanoscal ... read more

NIH HuBMAP Underrepresented Student Internship
The Underrepresented Student Internship Program provides the opportunity for undergraduate students from US colleges and universities to receive mento ... read more
funds international students
Paid Rosetta Commons Research Experience for Undergraduates
Interns in this geographically-distributed REU program have the opportunity to participate in research using the Rosetta Commons software. The Rosetta ... read more
an IBP member programstudy abroad programfunds international students
Research Experience and Mentoring Summer Program in Regenerative Engineering - Northwestern University
The Research Experience and Mentoring (REM) Program at Northwestern's Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering offers six young researchers the op ... read more

SHyNE Resource: Research for Undergraduates Program (REU)
SHyNE Resource at Northwestern University has developed a unique REU program providing facilities-focused research projects for four undergraduate stu ... read more

Summer Undergraduate Research Experience in Nanotechnology
Hands-on research infuses the traditional undergraduate curriculum with excitement. To date, the IIN has provided 387 students with a glimpse into the ... read more


NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology

(Madison, WI)
NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology Paid Research Experience for Veterans
The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, through support from the National Science Foundation, hosts a Research Experience for Veterans (REV) progra ... read more
an IBP member programfunds international students
NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology Paid Summer Research Opportunity
The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, through support from the National Science Foundation, hosts a paid Summer Undergraduate Research Experience ... read more
an IBP member programfunds international students