Research Opportunities at LSU and beyond
Research, scholarships, and internships
The following are lists of funded research opportunities offered at LSU and academic institutions throughout the U.S. and the world.
These are just a sample of the opportunities available to you; there are many more opportunities to be found by searching the internet, talking to your faculty mentor, or reaching out directly to us. If you need further assistance finding a research opportunity, please contact us at lsudiscover@lsu.edu.
- LSU Discover Research Project Grants
- Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC)
- Gulf Scholars Research Program
- Special Collections Research Program
- McNair Scholars Program
- College of Humanities & Social Sciences ASPIRE program
- College of Agriculture Undergraduate Research Grants
- College of Science Beckman Scholars program
- LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center - Student Worker Positions
- LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center - Student Trainee/Internships
- LSU School of Medicine Summer Research Program (New Orleans)
- LS-LAMP Program
- Lagniappe Internship Funding
- Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) through Sea Grant
- Whitney’s laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida Research Experience for Undergraduates Summer Program
- United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Research Opportunities and Internships
- Udall Scholarship
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Society of Wetland Scientists Student Research Grants
Full list of available College of the Coast & Environment scholarships.
- College of Humanities and Social Sciences ASPIRE Program
- NORC’s Summer Internship Program
- Undergraduate Research Diversity Fellowships in Law and Social Science
- Summer Research Opportunity Program
- CUR Arts and Humanities Student Scholarship
- Psi Chi Undergraduate Research Grants
- German Studies Research Grant
- Massachusetts Historical Society Fellowships
- Devern Scholar Program - Museum Education Internship
Full list of available College of Humanities & Social Sciences Scholarships.
LSU Opportunities
- College of Engineering scholarships
- College of Science scholarships
- Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC)
- Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LS-LAMP) Program
- LSU Center for Computation and Technology REU
- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Undergraduate Scholarship Program (UGSP)
- AEOP Undergraduate Apprenticeship Program
- Scholarships for Service (in Cybersecurity)
National Opportunities
- Biomedical Research Internships
- LaSpace Undergraduate Research Assistantship (LURA)
- Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
- Udall Scholarship
- Mount Sinai Summer Undergraduate Research Program
- Ecological Society of America/US Geological Survey Cooperative Summer Fellowship
- Summer Program for Undergraduate research, Medical College of Wisconsin
- UCSF Summer Research Program
- Undergraduate Biology Education Research
- Minority Health Disparities
- Ole Miss Physical Chemistry Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
- National Science Foundation
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Education Partnership Scholarship Program
- Center for Computation and Technology REU
- Summer Research Opportunity Program
- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Undergraduate Scholarship Program (UGSP)
- VentureWell E-Team Student Grants
- Sigmi-Xi Grants in Aid of Research (GIAR)
- National Institutes of Health Institutional Training Grants
- American Physiological Society Research Awards
- Society of Wetland Scientists Student Research Grants
- Bats Conservation International Student Scholars
- American Academy of Audiology Research Grants and Scholarships
- Evolving Earth Foundation Student Grant Program
Databases & Lists
- CUR - List of Internship and Research Opportunities
- National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
- Zintellect Opportunity Database
- Pathways to Science
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory Summer Internships (ORNL)
- Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI)
- Physics & Astronomy opportunities
- Research Internships in Science & Engineering
- Lists of Summer Programs in Biomedical Research
- Air Force Research Laboratory programs
- United States Environmental Protection Agency Research Fellowships and Scholarships
- The Garden Club of America Scholarships
- State Academies of Science - check yours for opportunities and details!
- Professional societies in your discipline
- Council on Undergraduate Research Divisions
Individual programs
- Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCOM) REU
- Student Airborne Research Program, NASA Earth Science Division
- RISE Germany Summer Internships in Science and Engineering
- LSU School of Medicine Summer Research Program (New Orleans)
- National Institute of Health (NIH) Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research
- National Institute of Health (NIH) Clinical Center Summer Internship Program
- Fred Hutch Cancer Center Internships
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Education Partnership Scholarship Program
- Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) through Sea Grant
- Student Airborne Research Program (SARP)
- F2OCUS Program - Future of Food: Opportunities and Careers for Undergraduate Students Fellowship Program
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Undergraduate Biology Education Research
- Consortium for Innovation in Manufacturing and Materials (CIMM)
- Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI)
- The Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship (MLEF) Program
- Leadership Alliance Summer Research Program
- Mount Sinai Summer Undergraduate Research Program
- Summer program for Undergraduate research, Medical College of Wisconsin
- UCSF Summer Research Program
- Minority Health Disparities
- Northwestern State Summer Research Opportunity Program
- Biomedical Research Internships
- Digestive Disease Research summer research Internship
- The American Gastroenterological Association Armaan Ahmed Family Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
- The American Gastroenterological Association - Dr. Harvey Young Education & Development Foundation’s Young Guts Scholar Program
- University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine Clinical and Research Undergraduate Summer Programs
- MU Summer Undergraduate Research Program
- Hudson River Foundation Tibor T. Polgar Undergraduate Fellowship
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship
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*you do not need to be an Honors student to take advantage of LSU's Fellowship Advising