Research Opportunities
Overview
Today's employers and graduate schools believe that field and research experience are among the best forms of evidence that you are prepared to excel in your career. Those students seen as experienced and prepared are the most competitive for the best job positions and graduate schools. Therefore, SEES makes the effort to disseminate information through emails about opportunities within the program, in other campus programs, and around the country. We have a strong history of student research involvement.
Academic Year Fellowships
SEES funds many of its members in the STEM fields to perform research under a faculty mentor. We have placed students in laboratories at Cal Poly Pomona, Western University of the Health Sciences, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the City of Hope Medical Center. These fellowships are typically done during the school year and tend to be competitive.
Faculty-Led Research Opportunities
Many of the faculty members at the College of Science conduct their own research, giving students the chance to get involved. Please view the Faculty Research (PDF) to see which research subjects each faculty member is interested in.
Summer Research Programs
Programs at Universities around the nation begin accepting applications to their summer research opportunities and internships. These programs provide you with salary, housing, and cutting-edge research experience in your field. The SEES Program encourages every one of its members to pursue summer positions in these fantastic programs. We send out this information each year before their deadlines and we encourage our students to apply to several.
Most deadlines are between December and March, so prepare early in the Fall!
National Summer Internships
Programs in ALL Science & Engineering Fields
- Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) - National Science Foundation
- Pathways to Science
- Science.gov Internship and Fellowship Opportunities in Science
- Summer Undergraduate Research Programs search
Specific Discipline Programs
Biomedical & Biotechnology research
- SEES-Hutchinson Compilation of Biomedical & Biotech Programs
- Summer Internship Program In Biomedical Research (SIP)
Environmental Biology
- Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management
- National Science Foundation Ocean Sciences
- Summer Research Program in Environmental Studies search
Medicine
Public Health
- National Institute of Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Public Health programs
- CDC Public Health Associate Program for Recent Graduates (PHAP)
- ASMsociety
Chemistry
- American Chemical Society
- National Science Foundation Chemistry
- American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Chemistry Summer Research Programs search
Computer Science
- National Science Foundation Computer Science & Engineering
- National Science Foundation Cyberinfrastructure
- National Security Agency - Central Security Service
- IBM Internships
- NASA Internships
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
Engineering
- National Science Foundation Engineering REUs
- Department of Defense REUs
- Materials Research
- Engineering Summer Research program search
- NASA Internships
Geology
- The Geological Society of America
- National Science Foundation Earth Sciences
- Southern California Earthquake Center
- Geology Summer Research program search
Kinesiology & Health Promotion
Mathematics
- American Mathematical Society
- National Science Foundation REUs
- Association for Women in Mathematics
- The Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
- Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI)
- NASA Internships
- Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Physics
- American Physical Society
- National Science Foundation Astronomical Sciences
- Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI)
- NASA Internships
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Summer Research Physics program search
