Useful Resources
Summer internship opportunities
Summer is the prime time to put some research experience under your belt. Pomona has an awesome summer research program (SURP) which awards students grants to complete ten weeks of research in collaboration with Pomona faculty.
Additionally, the Pomona science departments offer prestigious fellowships and summer research opportunities that will prepare students for graduate research.
Pomona links:
If however you are interested in exploring research opportunities outside of Pomona, search for government funded internships at top research universities.
General sites:
Science Careers Web (Biology Careers)
Science Careers Web (Bio, Chem, Math, Physics, Engineering)
Science Internships and Undergrad Research Programs - Penn State
Cirrus (Chemistry)
Government sites:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)
Argonne National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Idaho National Engineering And Environmental Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Local programs:
CPIMA(Center on Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies)
- Location: Leading Universities in the Bay Area, Northern California
- Fields applicable: chemical engineering, chemistry, materials science, physics, biology
- Funding: $4,500/ten weeks (as of 2007)
Keck Graduate Institute - Summer REU program
- Location: Claremont, CA
- Fields applicable: bioengineering, computational biology, applied molecular and cellular biology
- Funding: NSF - $3,975/ten weeks (as of 2007)
UCLA - Summer Programs for Undergraduate Research
- Multiple programs including an Amgen summer scholars program.