Outside Research Opportunities
There are many amazing opportunities for internship and research experiences in industry, government labs, hospitals, and at other academic campuses. Summer is an excellent time to explore career development opportunities off campus and in other parts of the country. Below are some current programs to explore.
Houston-Area Opportunities
- Baylor College of Medicine SMART Program
- BRAINS (Neurology) Summer Undergraduate Research Program - UT Health McGovern Medical School
- Houston Forensic Science Center Internships
- Houston Methodist Summer Undergraduate Research Internships (multiple fields)
- M.D. Anderson Department of Translational Molecular Pathology Summer Research Training (ITERT-STEP)
- M.D. Anderson Therapeutics Discovery and Development Summer Internship Program 2025
- M.D. Anderson UPWARDS Summer Program
- NASA Center Internships
- NASA DEVELOP National Program
- UH-Cardiovascular Undergraduate Research Experience (UH-CURE) Program
- UH - Houston Experience for Advancing Research and Training (UH-HEART) Program
Texas Opportunities
- Amgen Scholars Program - UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
- Data Science for Good Research Experience for Undergraduates - Southern Methodist University
- Mickey Leland Environmental Internship Program - TCEQ
- Summer Institute in Biostatistics and Data Science - UTMB
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program - UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
- Summer Undergraduate Research in Genetics and Genomics at Texas A&M
- Summer Undergraduate Research Institute for the Study of Kidney Disease - UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Out-of-State Opportunities
- Animal Behavior Program Research Experience at Indiana University
- Caltech WAVE Fellows Summer Research
- Center for Computation & Technology REU Program in Computational Sciences - Louisiana State University
- Conservation Internship for Broadening Access - Smithsonian
- Data Analytics for Science Immersion Experience - Carnegie Mellon University
- Department of Defense Historically Black Colleges and Universities & Minority-Serving Institutions Summer Research Internship
- Department of Defense SMART Program
- Department of Energy Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships
- ENDURE (Neuroscience) Summer Research - Washington U in St Louis
- Fermilab and Brookhaven Summer School Exchange Program
- Harvard Forest Summer Research Program in Ecology
- Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) Undergraduate Student Internship Program
- Inclusive NOAA Fisheries Internship Program
- Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter Research Experience - University of Pennsylvania
- MANO Project: Hispanic Access Foundation Nationwide Internships
- Micky Leland Energy Fellowship Program - Department of Energy
- NASA Center Internships
- NASA DEVELOP National Program
- National Environmental Public Health Internship Program
- NIH Human Biomolecular Atlas Program Undergraduate Student Internship Program
- Pathways to Science: Resource to Find Multiple Opportunities
- Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program - University of Utah
- QEM Talent Development and Innovation in Sciences Summer Internship (funded by NSF)
- Reproductive and Developmental Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Experience at Michigan State University
- Research Experience for Undergraduates in Bioinformatics, Genetics, and Genomic Sciences - University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Coastal Biology - University of North Florida
- Research Experiences for Undergraduates - Other Universities
- Santa Fe Institute Undergraduate Complexity Research
- Space Telescope Science Institute Space Astronomy Summer Program
- Summer Research Opportunities Program at Michigan State University
- Summer Undergraduate Research & Internship Experience in Acoustics
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife (Mano Project): Directorate Fellows Program
- University of Missouri Summer Undergraduate Research Program
- Woods Hole Partnership Education Program
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