Research Opportunities

General Sites

• EECS Undergraduate Research Guide: The guide to all EECS Research. Read this! Includes information about External Programs not covered by our own guides.
• Undergraduate Research Site: The website about all research of all forms at Cal. Not as essential as above, but still a good resouce, especially if you want to do research in other departments.

Special Opportunities

• Amgen Scholars Program
• Berkeley Summer Bioengineering Research Program
• David Scholars Program
• GROUP Summer Research Apprenticeships, Townsend Center (Hum, Soc. Sci,)
• Haas Scholars Program
• Leslie Lipson Scholarship and Prize
• McNair Scholars Program
• Miller Scholars Program
• Nanotechnology: Undergraduate Internship Program in Nanotechnology (COINS):
• NSF Summer REU Program in Cell, Developmental, and Evolutionary Biology
• Physics Undergraduate Research Scholars Program
• SURP: Summer Undergraduate Research Program (MCB)
• SUPERB: Summer Undergrad. Prog. in Engineering Research at Berkeley (non-EECS)
• SUPERB-IT (for information technology students)
• Travel Grants for Undergraduate Research (Letters & Science)
• UC LEADS
• URAP: Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (Campus-wide)
• Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (Engineering)
• VIGRE Program (undergraduate research seminars and apprenticeships in statistics)

Tips from Fellow Students

• Nag professors. Go to their office hours until they think you are actually eager to do more work than the class requires. Worked for me!
• Apply to URO and URAP. Even Freshmen can get in! And even if you don't get into a formal program, you might get recommended to others. At least that worked for me. -Aaron Staley
• Make your own research! Come up with some cool idea, sell it to a prefessor, write a paper, and get published. It's a simple 4 step process and best of all you are doing your own, rather than someone else's work! -Anonymous

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