Director's Office

Summer Research Opportunities Beyond Smith College

Four College Collaboration

As part of a four college collaboration program, Smith students can obtain summer research stipends for research at Amherst College and Mt. Holyoke College. You fill out the application form of the host institution, i.e. if you want to go to Amherst College, follow the Amherst College process.

Smith students interested in doing summer research at Amherst College can find further information here: https://cms.amherst.edu/media/view/32182/original/2008%2BFive-College%2Bapplication%2Binfo.pdf and here: https://cms.amherst.edu/academiclife/funding/howard_hughes_fellowship

Mt. Holyoke has program information here: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/biol/hhmi/ and information about faculty research interests here: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/biol/hhmi/FacultyResearch.htm . If you see research of interest to you, contact the faculty member directly and work with them to complete your application form.

Special Smith College External Relationships

Harvard University

There are two NSF funded positions for Biology majors at Jacques Dumais' lab at Harvard to work on Phyllotaxis for two months or more this summer. Smith students have priority for these two positions! Experience in Botany is helpful. There are also 2 positions for Math majors, for 5-6 weeks, mostly at Smith, but also some time at Harvard.
Contact Prof. Golé (Math department).

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) has a popular Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program in either Gaithersburg or Boulder. NIST has readily accepted Smith students in the past. More info here: http://surf.nist.gov/surf2.htm or call 310 975 4200. Deadline already February 15, 2008!! If you are interested in this program, let us know right away by sending us an email at surf@email.smith.edu.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute provides a listing of HHMI funded programs that are available to students from other institutions on their website via Search for Science Opportunities: http://www.hhmi.org/grants/reports/scienceopp/main. Here is a list of examples of exciting HHMI summer opportunities.

Are you interested in doing summer research abroad? If so, the HHMI web site also has a list of 100+ HHMI researchers around the world that may accept you as a summer researcher. Identify up to five that you would be interested in working with. HHMI will provide a stipend of approximately $4500 for the entire stay. It is your own responsibility to organize your travel, housing, etc. If you are interested in applying to one or more international HHMI researchers, send an email to surf@email.smith.edu as soon as possible. You have to submit the standard full application package as one single PDF and also include this HHMI information form (you can supplement it with a letter, if needed). Do not contact any of the researchers directly.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

MIT Lincoln Laboratory encourages undergraduate and graduate students who meet the criteria noted below to apply for summer employment opportunities at our suburban Boston location. In addition to our competitive compensation, you may be eligible for fully paid round-trip travel to Boston for the summer, a subsidy for on-campus housing, free daily transportation to MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and an array of athletic and cultural facilities on the MIT campus and throughout the Boston area. See more info here: http://www.ll.mit.edu/careers/summer.html

Other External Summer Opportunities

During the summer of 2008, the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network will host a Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (NNIN REU) from June through August. Engineering and science students with broad interests across disciplines focusing on nanotechnology are eligible to apply if they are not graduating before the end of the program in August 2008. Minority and female candidates are especially encouraged to apply.

Cornell has a program available to Smith students: http://bti.cornell.edu/pgrp/.

Stony Brook University, NY, is also inviting Smith students: http://www.stonybrook.edu/ligase/Forstudents/NationalScholars/nationalscholars.html

Westminster internships: www.psych.westminster.edu/psybio/internops.htm

If your interest is in biology or neuroscience, Amherst College has a web page with a great collection of links to undergraduate summer research opportunities all over the country: www.amherst.edu/~neuro/SummerResearch.html

National Science Foundation has an extensive online database of "Research Experiences for Undergraduates" (REU) at: http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/reu_search.cfm

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