Undergraduate Research Opportunities

OSU Opportunities

• Undergraduate Research Innovation Scholarship Creativity (URISC)

  A funding program for OSU students working with faculty mentors.

• OSU Libraries Undergraduate Student Research Awards recognize and reward OSU students who, through the comprehensive use of the OSU Libraries, demonstrated outstanding research, scholarship and originality in writing a paper or completing a project.
  
• International Research Awards

  Possibilities to pursue research for an International Degree thesis in your major with an overseas stay.

• The Ernest and Pauline Jaworski Fund for Summer Research Experiences for Underserved Undergraduates in Plant Science, through the Oregon State University Foundation.

  Applications are due March 1 annually.

• LIFE Scholars Summer Research Program $2,000 awards are available to OSU undergraduates for scholarly,creative research in the interdisciplinary field of aging.  

• OSU-Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Training Cooperative Partnership
  in Support of Terrestrial, Aquatic, and Coastal Ecosystems

  The OSU- EPA Training Cooperative Partnership provides students with opportunities to work closely with OSU faculty and EPA scientists at the Western Ecology Division in Corvallis and the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. This EPA grant-supported program supports 20-30 students each year to work as undergraduate interns or graduate assistants on laboratory and field research focused on terrestrial, aquatic, or coastal ecosystems. The program pairs students with senior research scientists, to increase the effectiveness and number of future independent scientists who can conduct environmental and ecological research. For many undergraduate students, it provides the first opportunity to experience field and laboratory research. For graduate students, it encourages a high level of professional development, including the production of peer-reviewed publications and the opportunity to attend scientific conferences. One goal of the partnership is to provide research opportunities for students from historically underrepresented groups.

  Contacts for additional information:Graduate Students - Denise Lach , 541-737-5471, denise.lach@oregonstate.edu; Undergraduate Students - Stephanie Sanford, 541-737-5861, stephanie.sanford@oregonstate.edu

External Opportunities

Additonal resources for academic, business, and government internships, projects, summer institutes . .

 

Inspiration

Examples of successful research activities of OSU undergraduates

Descriptions of the research focus and activities of every OSU discipline