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Research Opportunity = Identified or structured research projects and programs
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Library of Congress Junior Fellows Summer Internship Program


Provides exposure to wide variety of library work, specifically the unique research of the Library of Congress.

Life Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program (LSSURP) at the University of Minnesota


10-week research project under the direction of a University of Minnesota faculty mentor in fields related to the life sciences.

LIGO Summer Undergraduate Research


Undergraduate students in physics, astronomy and engineering are invited to participate in the development of gravitational-wave astronomy through the LIGO Project.

Lisa Letourneau

P.I. willing to mentor undergraduate research work study students and students requiring pay interested in Diabetes, Genetics.

Los Alamos National Laboratory Undergraduate Student Internship Program


Provides students with relevant research experience at LANL while they are pursuing an undergraduate degree.

Lucy Godley

P.I. willing to mentor undergraduate research volunteers interested in inherited hematopoietic malignancies; epigenetic changes in cancers.

Luis Bettencourt

P.I. willing to mentor undergraduate research work study students and students requiring pay interested in Cities and Urbanization, Public Health, Quantitative Modeling, Data, Evolutionary Theory.

Luka Pocivavsek

PI looking for undergraduate research volunteers. My lab is a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary lab that combines the physical sciences, engineering, and surgery. We study aortic pathologies, stability and failure of endovascular repairs, stress focusing phenomena induced by surgical interventions, and interfacial adhesion, surface renewal, and topography.

Mann Award Travel Grant


This grant sponsors several competitive fellowship programs for BA essay writers.

Maria-Luisa Alegre

P.I. willing to mentor undergraduate research volunteers and work study students interested in Immunology.

Mark Applebaum

P.I. willing to mentor undergraduate research volunteers and work study students interested in Pediatric solid tumor genomics.

Marsha Rosner

P.I. willing to mentor undergraduate research volunteers and work study students interested in Cancer

Mary E. Strek

P.I. willing to mentor undergraduate research volunteers, work study students and students requiring pay interested in Risk factors, phenotypes, outcomes, effect of therapy in patients with pulmonary fibrosis.

Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) REU


Offers undergraduates the opportunity to gain research experience working in the laboratory or research group of MRSEC faculty members.

Materials Science & Engineering REU at University of Missouri


Paid summer research projects will focus on understanding and predicting such relationships for micro- and nano-structured materials across a wide spectrum of applications.

Maternal Child Health Careers/Research Initiatives for Student Enhancement - Undergraduate Program (MCHC/RISE-UP)


Funded summer research program in public health at one of three locations.

Mayo Clinic Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)


Summer conducting research with established scientists at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

Medieval Bestsellers: A Quantitative History of Early English Books

MedIX REU Program


The Medical Informatics (MedIX) program’s main objectives are to encourage talented undergraduates to pursue graduate education and to expose students to interdisciplinary research, especially at the border of information technology and medicine.

Meharry Cancer Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)


A 10-week intensive, hands-on research experience for undergraduate students with the goal of exposing students to different types of cancer research.

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