Other Funded Research Opportunities
Research, scholarships, and internship opportunities
The following are condensed lists of funded research opportunities offered by academic institutions and research sites throughout the U.S. and world. These lists 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.
This page was last updated on Dec. 6, 2022
LSU Discover Research Project Grants
Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC)
College of Agriculture Undergraduate Research Grants
LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center - Student Worker Positions
LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center - Student Trainee/Internships
Lagniappe Internship Fund - funding for students offered an unpaid or underpaid internship
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) through Sea Grant
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Research Opportunities and Internships
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Click here to view the full list of available School of the Coast & Environment Scholarships.
SOARS - Scholarships for College of Science Majors
Majors in the departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Geology and Geophysics,
Physics and Astronomy or Mathematics.
LSU Opportunities
Click here to view the list of College of Engineering Scholarships.
Click here to view the list of 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
National Opportunities
Click here for a list of Biomedical Research Internships
LaSpace Undergraduate Research Assistantship (LURA)
Barry M. Goldwater 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
Undergraduate Biology Education Research
Ole Miss Physical Chemistry Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
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)
Databases & Lists
CUR - List of Internship and Research Opportunities
National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
Summer Research Opportunities in the Arts & Humanities
Zintellect Opportunity Database
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Summer Internships (ORNL)
Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI)
Physics & Astronomy opportunities
Research Internships in Science & Engineering
Individual programs
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Education Partnership Scholarship Program
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) through Sea Grant
Student Airborne Research Program (SARP)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
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
Northwestern State Summer Research Opportunity Program
Biomedical Research Internships