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High School Students

• BlueStamp Engineering Summer Research
BlueStamp Engineering (Lead)
BlueStamp Engineering (BSE) is a hands-on engineering program operating in New York City, Houston, and San Francisco designed by industry professional ... read more


Undergraduate Students

• ASSIST Nanosystems Engineering Research Center REU program
North Carolina State University (Lead), Florida International University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Virginia
The summer REU program offers research opportunities for domestic undergraduates from institutions outside of the ASSIST center. The program is open ... read more

• Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences REU at the Space Physics Research Lab
University of Michigan (Lead)
This program is designed to provide undergraduate students with "hands-on" experience of research in an organization of national and interna ... read more

• CAT Vehicle: Cognitive and Autonomous Testbed Vehicle
University of Arizona (Lead)
Are you interested in programming a car to drive itself this summer? This research experience for undergraduates (REU) permits students to engage with ... read more

• CENSES Multidisciplinary Summer Research Program in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Physics
City University of New York (CUNY), City College of New York (Lead), Columbia University, New York University
Center for Exploitation of Nanostructures in Sensor and Energy Systems (CENSES) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) is a multidisciplinary (c ... read more

• Center for Emergent Materials (CEM) Summer REU progam at Ohio State University
Ohio State University (Lead)
The NSF-funded CEM Research Experience for Undergraduates program focuses on fundamental and applied science of exotic and novel materials and next-ge ... read more

• Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) REU
University of Kansas (Lead), Elizabeth City State University, Indiana University, Bloomington, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University of Washington
Do you know people who have been impacted by hurricanes or big storms? As coastal development expands with a growing global population and increased u ... read more

• Computational Sensing and Medical Robotics (CS&MR) REU
Johns Hopkins University (Lead)
<p>The REU program is an intensive, ten-week program of instruction and laboratory research, beginning in early June and concluding in early Au ... read more

• Cornell Center for Materials Research REU
Cornell University
The Cornell Center for Materials Research is offering a special summer research program with a stipend valued at $4000, room in one of Cornell's on-ca ... read more

• CURENT Engineering Research Center REU
University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Lead), Northeastern University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tuskegee University
The summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at the University of Tennessee's Engineering Research Center, CURENT, provides an opportunity ... read more

• Dept. of Physics REU
College of William and Mary (Lead), Hampton University, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), NASA Langley Research Center
We invite undergraduates to apply for research opportunities in our summer REU program. Our 2013 REU dates are May 27-August 3, 2013. The application ... read more

• Engineered Bioactive Interfaces and Devices REU
University of Kentucky (Lead)
<p>A multidisciplinary Research Experience for Undergraduates summer program in Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Enginee ... read more

• Experiential Learning for Veterans in Assistive Technology and Engineering (ELeVATE)
University of Pittsburgh
ELeVATE is a program designed to re-integrate veterans to college through a three-phased program. <p>Phase I: participants will complete a ten ... read more

• NASA Academy
NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Glenn Research Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Langley Research Center, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
The Academies are intensive educational programs emphasizing group activities, teamwork, research, and creativity. The curriculum balances direct cont ... read more

• Nature InSpired Engineering (NISE) REU
University of Delaware
This unique 10-week summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site program at the University of Delaware's College of Engineering is comple ... read more

• NEON Undergraduate Internship Program in science and engineering
National Ecological Observatory Network (Lead)
NEON is offering a summer internship program for undergraduate students from populations that are underrepresented in science and engineering. The int ... read more

• Novel Advanced Materials and Processing with Applications in Biomedical, Electrical and Chemical Engineering
University of Illinois, Chicago (Lead)
Participants work for a summer at the University of Illinois at Chicago, collaborating with faculty and staff on current research projects on novel ad ... read more

• NSF-REU: Interdisciplinary Research in Water Resources
University of Florida
The University of Florida invites applications for an interdisciplinary research program in water resources from undergraduate students in their sopho ... read more

• Quality of Life Technology REU
Carnegie Mellon University (Lead), University of Pittsburgh (Lead)
The Quality of Life Technology Engineering Research Center's (QoLT ERC) vision is to transform lives of people with reduced functional capabilities du ... read more

• Research Experience for Undergraduates in Materials Science & Engineering
University of Utah
Research Opportunities in Materials Science & Engineering: <p>. Plasmonic Metamaterials & Organic Spintronics <p>. $4500 stipend ... read more

• Research Experience for Undergraduates: Sensors and Sensing: From Molecules to Applications
Florida International University (Lead)
A new REU site based at the Chemistry & Biochemistry department at Florida International University aims to support research projects for nine stu ... read more

• REU in Microelectronics and Photonics (microEP)
University of Arkansas (Lead)
This three-year REU program at the University of Arkansas will be hosted by the interdisciplinary Microelectronics-Photonics (microEP) graduate progra ... read more

• REU Site: Sensor Science and Engineering
University of Maine (Lead)
During the Summer of 2013 the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology (LASST) at the Univ ... read more

• Robotics & Intelligent System Scholars (RISS) Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University (Lead)
The Robotics and Intelligent Systems REU site at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute provides funded high-quality robotics summer undergraduate resea ... read more

• Summer Research Program on Applied Computing Research in Wireless Sensing of Marine data
Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi (Lead)
<p>The Department of Computing Sciences at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi will host an NSF REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) ... read more

• Summer Undergrad Research Fellowship in Information Technology
University of California, Santa Cruz
: Integrative computing systems: robotics/autonomous systems, sensor/wireless networks, bioinformatics, assistive technology, human-computer interacti ... read more

• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) & International Research Experience Program (IREP)
Georgia Institute of Technology
SURF 2009 is for undergraduate science and engineering students to experience hands-on participation in the multidisciplinary field of materials rese ... read more

• Wireless Health Research & Education Summer Program
University of California, Los Angeles (Lead)
The Wireless Health Institute at UCLA is currently recruiting participants for our 2013 Summer Undergraduate Scholars Program. Advances in engineering ... read more


Post-Baccalaureate

• Experiential Learning for Veterans in Assistive Technology and Engineering (ELeVATE)
University of Pittsburgh
ELeVATE is a program designed to re-integrate veterans to college through a three-phased program. <p>Phase I: participants will complete a ten ... read more


Graduate Students

• C-CHANGE IGERT: Climate Change, Humans, and Nature in the Global Environment
University of Kansas (Lead), Haskell Indian Nations University
Climate change and its impact on the planet’s biological, ecological, and social systems has been identified as one of the “grand challeng ... read more

• Computational Transportation Science IGERT
University of Illinois, Chicago
Our Computational Transportation Science (CTS) fellows are developing technologies in which sensors, travelers computers (e.g., PDAs), in-vehicle comp ... read more

• Engineered Bioactive Interfaces and Devices IGERT
University of Kentucky
The Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program, supported by the National Science Foundation, is a multi-disciplinary doc ... read more

• Flexible Electronics For Biological and Life Science Applications (FlexEBio) IGERT
Cornell University (Lead), State University of New York (SUNY), Albany, State University of New York (SUNY), Binghamton
The FlexEBio IGERT will transform doctoral education, training, and research in science and engineering fields at the three core institutions (Cornell ... read more

• Interdisciplinary Training in Rehabilitation Technology
University of Pittsburgh (Lead)
This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award supports training in engineering and rehabilitation sciences to prepare fut ... read more

• InterRidge Research Cruise Travel Awards
National Oceanography Centre Southampton
Funding is available to enable early-career scientists to participate in research cruises studying mid ocean ridges. Return flights are paid, and ther ... read more

• Magnetic and Nanostructured Materials
Norfolk State University (Lead), Cornell University, Purdue University
This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports the development of an interdisciplinary graduate training program cen ... read more

• Nanobiosensors, Nanomaterials, and Microfluidics IGERT
Cornell University (Lead), University of Utah
Under the broad heading of NanoBioSensors (NBS), this program will address the challenges involved in the development of ultra-sensitive biological an ... read more

• NASA Academy
NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Glenn Research Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Langley Research Center, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
The Academies are intensive educational programs emphasizing group activities, teamwork, research, and creativity. The curriculum balances direct cont ... read more

• Neuroengineering IGERT
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The NSF-sponsored NeuroEngineering IGERT Program at the University of Illinois is training graduate students in engineering and neuroscience to attack ... read more

• Optical techniques for actuation, sensing, and imaging of biological systems IGERT
Columbia University (Lead), Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, City University of New York (CUNY), Queens College
This IGERT program seeks to train a new generation of scientists and engineers through a set of five research thrusts that cross three fundamental cor ... read more

• Optics and Quantum Electronics IGERT: Engineering Photons for a Sustainable Future
Columbia University (Lead), City University of New York (CUNY), City College of New York
The Columbia Optics and Quantum Electronics IGERT facilitates the unique interdisciplinary training of Ph.D. scientists and engineers in the field of ... read more

• Sensor Science, Engineering, and Informatics IGERT
University of Maine
The Sensor Science Engineering and Informatics (SSEI) IGERT program is a PhD training program in the multidisciplinary area of sensor systems: ranging ... read more

• Water in the Urban Environment IGERT
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
This NSF-sponsored Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program supports establishment of a multidisciplinary PhD program i ... read more


Postdoc & Early Career

• Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training Career Advancement for Engineers in the Science of Rehabilitation (CAESOR)
University of Pittsburgh (Lead)
TGet experience in rehabilitation engineering and research! Competitive stipend & training opportunities available for qualified candidates! &l ... read more

• InterRidge Research Cruise Travel Awards
National Oceanography Centre Southampton
Funding is available to enable early-career scientists to participate in research cruises studying mid ocean ridges. Return flights are paid, and ther ... read more

• ORNL Postdoctoral Research Associates Research Participation Program
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Lead), Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
The ORNL Postdoctoral Research Associates is a highly selective program and offers challenging opportunities to recent recipients of doctoral degrees ... read more

• Postdoctoral Associate, Lab of Ornithology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Cornell University
The Bioacoustics Research Program (BRP) is a diverse group of scientists and engineers focused on studying the natural sound-scape and animal vocal si ... read more

• Postdoctoral Openings at Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory
: A link to job openings at Argonne National Laboratory. To find postdoctoral openings, select 'postdoctoral openings' under 'Browse:' and 'Job Title ... read more

• Postdoctoral Researcher position for Multimodal Imaging
Wright State University (Lead)
The Postdoctoral Researcher will work with an interdisciplinary research team on a project to investigate human signatures from multimodal standoff se ... read more

• Postdoctoral Scholarship Program
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Fellowships are available to new or recent doctoral graduates in diverse areas of research. Applications will be accepted from doctoral recipients wi ... read more


Research Centers

• Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI)
University of Southern California (Lead), California Institute of Technology, Oregon State University, Portland State University, Stanford University, Texas A&M University, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Delaware, University of Hawaii, University of Miami, University of Rhode Island, Washington University, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI) is a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Science and Technology Center. We are a mu ... read more

• Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets
University of Kansas (Lead), Elizabeth City State University, Haskell Indian Nations University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Maine



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