Undergraduate Research Program
The following is a list of external opportunities that we find our students may benefit from:
Please note that these opportunities have varying requirements, deadlines, and prestige. It is the responsibility of the student to find opportunities that best fit the student’s interests, career goals, and finances. The Undergraduate Research Program is not responsible for these opportunities.
Additionally, please note that several of the fellowships listed below will require the University’s approval to apply. Students should follow links on the fellowships’ websites to find UD’s contact for these fellowships.
Scholarships/Fellowships
- Four year funding for a woman in the sciences: http://www.scienceambassadorscholarship.org/
- A ton of scholarships/fellowships, sortable by reason for applying, year of study, academic field, or identity: http://onf.fsu.edu/Fellowships
- Glamour’s Top 10 College Women scholarship (closed for 2016-2017, check back for 2017-2018): http://www.glamour.com/inspired/glamour-top-10-college-women
- Scholarships for German-speaking students: https://www.daad.org/scholarship
- Boren scholarships for students interested in foreign service:http://www.borenawards.org/
- Fulbright Summer Insitutes: http://www.fulbright.org.uk/fulbright-awards/exchanges-to-the-uk/undergradu…
- Rhodes Scholar: http://www.rhodesscholar.org/
- Fulbright: http://us.fulbrightonline.org/component/school/6867?view=school
- Truman Scholar, for students interested in public service: https://www.truman.gov/candidates/how-become-truman-scholar/
- Udall Scholar, for commitment to Native Americans/the environment: http://www.udall.gov/ourprograms/scholarship/scholarship.aspx
- The Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program for students interested in foreign service: http://www.twc.edu/thomas-r-pickering-foreign-affairs-fellowship-program
- Gilman Scholarship for study abroad: http://www.iie.org/programs/gilman-scholarship-program#.V_aA_PkrLcs
- Tutition support and paid summer internships with NOAA: http://www.noaa.gov/office-education/hollings-scholarship
Summer Opportunities
- REUs, funded summer research in the sciences at other universities, with a stipend, housing, travel, and food usually included: https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/
- SROP, like REUs but with grad school prep at the Big 10 alliance of schools: https://www.btaa.org/students/srop/introduction
- 6 week summer program for students interested in US foreign affairs: http://www.rangelprogram.org/?session.areaid=2&contentid=684&typeid…
- STEM Summer Research Programs http://www.jyi.org/summer-research-programs/
- Biomedical Research and Internship Opportunities http://www.urp.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Internship-Opportunities-2015.pdf
- Summer ORISE Fellowship Opportunities at FDA https://www.zintellect.com/Posting/details/1683. If you have questions, send an email to FDArpp@orau.org. Please include the reference code for this opportunity in your email (FDA-NCTR-2016-0036) or contact ORAU Project Manager, Katherine Dickson, at (865) 574-3911 or Katherine.Dickinson@orau.org.
- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine’s 2016 Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP). http://www.gradbiomed.pitt.edu/node/268
General
- Database of funding opportunities and researcher profiles. Anyone with a @udel.edu email can sign up from an on-campus computer, then use that profile off campus. http://pivot.cos.com/
- ORCID, a unique ID number for researchers: http://orcid.org/
- National Biology Honors Society, with research grants for members http://www.tribeta.org/
- Oak Ridge Associated Universities research opportunities http://www.orau.org/science-education/internships-scholarships-fellowships/…
- University of California, Irvine’s Database of Off-Campus Opportunities https://urop.due.uci.edu/urop/off_campus/off_campus_web_list.asp
UD Specific
- Library workshops http://udel.libcal.com/calendar/workshops/
- Research guides http://guides.lib.udel.edu/
Citation Management
- Mendeley https://www.mendeley.com/
- Zotero https://www.zotero.org/
- RefWorks www.refworks.com/
Journals that publish undergraduate research
Word of caution – Generally speaking, undergrads should not pay to be published, and should look for opportunities with journals that are as widely read as possible, or that give them the opportunity to work with schools that they are considering for graduate school. Students MUST consult with their research advisor/supervising professor before submitting research for publication.
- African Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry – http://www.academicjournals.org/AJPAC/
- Aporia: A Student Journal of Philosophy http://aporia.byu.edu/site.php?id=current
- Columbia Journal of Politics and Society http://www.helvidius.org/
- Critical Theory and Social Justice Journal of Undergraduate Research- Occidental College http://scholar.oxy.edu/ctsj/call.html
- Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/
- Digital America http://www.digitalamerica.org/
- Discussions, the Undergraduate Research Journal of Case Western Reserve Uni http://case.edu/discussions/
- EvoS Journal: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium http://evostudies.org/evos-journal/
- IMPULSE – The Premier Undergraduate Neuroscience Journal http://impulse.appstate.edu/
- International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities http://commons.pacificu.edu/ijurca/
- Involve Journal of Mathematics http://msp.org/involve/about/journal/about.html
- Issues in Political Economy http://www.elon.edu/e-web/students/ipe/default.xhtml
- Journal of Cell and Animal Biology http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/JCAB/authors
- Journal of Student Research http://www.jofsr.com/index.php/path/index
- Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography http://undergraduateethnography.org/
- Journal of Undergraduate Chemistry Research http://www.vmi.edu/academics/departments/chemistry/journal-of-undergraduate…
- Journal of Young Investigators http://www.jyi.org/
- Online Journal for Undergraduate Research in the Marine and Aquatic Sciences https://sites.google.com/site/marscijournal/
- Review of Undergraduate Research in Agricultural and Life Sciences http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/rurals/
- Inquiries Journal (Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities) http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/
- The Dualist (Philosophy) https://philosophy.stanford.edu/dualist-journal
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The Oswald Review, An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English http://web.usca.edu/english/opportunities/oswald-review/
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Undergraduate Math Journal http://www.rose-hulman.edu/mathjournal/who.php
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Undergraduate Research Journal for the Human Sciences http://www.kon.org/CFP/cfp_urjhs.html
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Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine http://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/index.aspx
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Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric http://arc.lib.montana.edu/ojs/index.php/Young-Scholars-In-Writing/index