Undergraduates participate in a range of research, scholarly, and creative activities throughout their education at UVM. Navigate internal and external opportunities below or schedule an appointment by contacting four@uvm.edu to meet with an advisor.
The opportunities below are not an exhaustive list and consulting with your faculty advisor or FOUR staff can be a helpful way to find opportunities specific to your discipline.
Internal Opportunities
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences
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- Academic Programs for Learning and Engagement (APLE Award or Stipend)
- Life Science Scholars Program - First Year, academic program
- Summer Research Fellowships, Department of Chemistry
- CAS Internship Program
- Arts in Action
- The Ronald Suiter Prize
- The Vermont Legislative Research Service (VLRS), Department of Political Science
School of the Arts
College of Education and Social Services
College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Environmental Program
Grossman School of Business
Larner College of Medicine
Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
All colleges/disciplines
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- Agroecology Extension Summer Research Fellowship (AX)
- The Simon Family Public Research Fellowship
- Research and Extension Experiential Undergraduate Learning Fellowship Program (REEU)
- Justice, Equity, Inclusion and Diversity Summer Award (JEDI)
- The Summer Enrichment Scholars Program (SESP)
- Communities of Practice Internship Program
- UVM Spatial Analysis Internship Program
- Food Systems Research: Food SURF
External Opportunities
Arts/Creative Writing
Social Sciences/Humanities
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- The Anthropology Internship Program at the American Museum of Natural History
- University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center Internship Program (NORC)
- The Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC-MURAP)
- The Museum Seminar Internship Program at The Met (MuSe)
- Junior Fellows Summer Internship Program at the Library of Congress
- Historic Deerfield Summer Fellowship Program in History and Material Culture
STEM/Biomedical/Medical
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- University of Missouri Summer Undergraduate Research Program
- Florida Atlantic NSF-REU summer program in Sensing and Smart Systems
- University of Colorado Virtual Shadowing Nano Course
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Diversity Summer Research Training Program (NIDDK-DRTP)
- National Institutes of Health, Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research (SIP)
- Stanford Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
- UCSD MSTP Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
- University of Massachusetts Medical School Summer Undergraduate Research Program (UMMS-SURF)
- Virginia Tech Neuro SURF
- Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI)
- Vienna Biocenter Summer School
- Van Andel Institute Undergraduate Student Research Internship Program
- AAMC has compiled a list of summer programs here
- Pathways to Science - STEM opportunities database (undergraduate/graduate research, summer research, ect.)