Research Opportunities at LSU and beyond
Research, scholarships, and internship opportunities
The following are condensed lists of funded research opportunities offered at LSU and academic institutions 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.
- LSU Discover Research Project Grants
- Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC)
- Gulf Scholars Research Program
- Special Collections Research Program
- McNair Scholars Program
- ASPIRE - for HSS students
- 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
- LSU School of Medicine Summer Research Program (New Orleans)
- 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
Full list of available College of the Coast & Environment 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
National Opportunities
- Biomedical Research Internships
- LaSpace Undergraduate Research Assistantship (LURA)
- Stowers Research Scholarship
- 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
- USCF 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)
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
- Pathways to Science
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory Summer Internships (ORNL)
- Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI)
- Physics & Astronomy opportunities
- Research Internships in Science & Engineering
Individual programs
- LSU School of Medicine Summer Research Program (New Orleans)
- National Institute of Health (NIH) Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research
- 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
- USCF 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