The Washington, D.C. Metro area is surrounded by federal research centers (NIST, FDA, NIH, USDA, NRL, Smithsonian Institution), research hospitals (National Naval Medical Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Children’s National Medical Center), biotechnology firms, and local companies. These organizations provide many opportunities for internships that can be done during an academic semester or over the summer. Some offer a stipend while others are unpaid. Academic credit can be obtained for some internships. For more information, contact Dr. Kaci Thompson.
Internship Opportunities
- The Worcester Polytechnic Institute Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is hosting a Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Program, “Membrane Biochemistry and Bioinspired Synthesis,” for 10 weeks beginning May 26. The program provides campus housing, subsidized travel and a $5000 stipend. Applications are due March 1, 2020.
- MIT Materials Research Laboratory and the Materials Research Science & Engineering Center 2020 Summer Research Internship Program
- Army Research Laboratory (ARL) 2020 Summer Student Experience
- University of Pittsburgh Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology
- UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas Texas has five summer undergraduate research programs:
- Gerstner Sloan Kettering
- UT Southwestern Medical Center has several summer research fellowships including biomedical research, study of kidney disease, quantitative and physical sciences
- National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network – Cornell
- SCI Scholars Summer Internship Program
- UT Austin Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Department
- Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology at the University of Pittsburgh
- MIT Amgen Scholars UROP Program
- Goddard Center for Astrobiology
- Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Bioinformatics or Bioenergy Education at Cornell University
- UC Berkeley Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science
- SENS Research Foundation Regenerative Medicine Internship
- Amgen Scholars U.S. and Japan Programs
- USC School of Engineering
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Maryland Summer Scholars
- University of Michigan Biomedical and Life Sciences
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD
- Mayo Clinic
- UC San Diego School of Medicine
- Scripps Research Institute
- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
- SUNY Upstate Medical University
- Rockefeller University
- University of Waterloo (Canada) Experimental Quantum Information Processing
- Georgia Tech Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- NYU Materials Research and Engineering Center (MRSEC)
- Summer Research Opportunities Program
- Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE)
- The Institute for Shock Physics (ISP) at Washington State University
- Rutgers Computational Biology Summer Program
- University of Maryland Federal Semester Program
- University of Maryland Global Semester Program in Washington, DC
- Chemistry Department at the University of North Texas