Undergraduate Research @ Berkeley

How do I get involved in research?
(pdf) Applying for a spring deadline, or just want to get started? Last Research Proposal Workshop - March 17!

See the new research calendar for events and deadlines this month

Departmental Research Resources
Arts funding opportunities, prizes, fellowships
College of Natural Resources
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
Molecular and Cell Biology
Physic s
Psychology Research Opportunities

Other research and academic grants and fellowships open only to UCB students (some of these are for graduate students and faculty as well)
Summary of features, deadlines, and eligibility requirements for the below programs, updated as of 4/08.

• ASUC Academic Affairs Grants : >for students>grants --undergraduate and graduate research travel, event planning, curriculum improvement
• Center for African Studies Rosberg-Geist U.grad Fellowship for Travel to Africa
• Center for Human Rights Applications now available at the center and online
• Center for Latino Policy Research (mini-grant)
• Center for Middle Eastern Studies scholarships for study of Arab culture
• Center for Middle Eastern Studies Undergraduate Research Grant
• Center for Race and Gender Grants
• Consortium for the Arts
• Greater Good Science Center (formerly Center for Development of Peace and Well-being) U.grad Research Fellowships Application now available online!
• History Travel Grant
• NEW: Nelson W. Polsby Grant for Public Affairs Research
• Science, Technology, and Society Center Summer Grants Program
• Student Opportunity Funds (SOF)
• Center for British StudiesTravel Grants for Conferences and Research Rolling Deadline

Post Baccalaureate Research (graduating Berkeley students only)
• Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize

Undergraduate Research Programs @ Berkeley primarily for non-Berkeley students:
(Summary of below programs as of 4/1/08)

Amgen Scholars Program
NSF Summer REU Program in Cell, Developmental, and Evolutionary Biology
Summer Research Opportunities Program (for undergrads, run by Graduate Division)
SUPERB: Summer Undergrad. Prog. in Engineering Research at Berkeley (non-EECS)
SUPERB-IT (for information technology students)

Research in Washington D.C.! UC Berkeley Washington Center (UCDC)
In Sacramento: University of California Center in Sacramento (UCCS)

Research Opportunities at Bay Area and National Labs:

• Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
• Lawrence Livermore National Lab
• UCSF research labs

• Energy Research Undergraduate Laboratory Fellowships
• Dept of Energy Undergraduate Research
• Space Sciences Laboratory
• Children's Hospitial of Oakland Research Institute

Summer Research Opportunities Beyond UC Berkeley:

•Summer Opportunities in all disciplines
•Tel Dor Archeol. Project
• NSF: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (sciences and social sciences)
•American Psychological Assn Summer Institute
•UCSF Summer Research Training Program

•Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) Summer Research Program
•CHORI Short-Term Training for Minority College Students
•UCSF UC LEADS Program
•Howard Hughes Medical Institute:Search for Science Opportunities
•2007 Summer Opportunities for Minority Undergraduate Students (2008 version available 1/16/08)
•UC Irvine: 2007 Integrated Micro/Nano Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (IM-SURE)

Are you interested in publishing your research or being an editor?

• Berkeley Undergraduate Journal (Soc.Sci., Humanities)
• Berkeley Scientific
• California Engineer
• Clio's Scroll:Undergraduate History Journal
• Harvest Moon (Philosophy)

Research resources for undergraduates: weekly workshops

• How to get started in undergraduate research
• How to write a research proposal
• Library workshops

See the winners:
Library Prize for Undergraduate Research (Did you use the library collections extensively or creatively?)
Hill-Shumate Book Collecting Prize (Did you build a collection as you pursued your research?)

Research resources for undergraduates: links and documents

The Haas Scholars Program has a resources page of links and documents for students thinking about independent research. Go to the Haas Scholars Program documents page for resources such as

• How to find a faculty mentor (document)
• Links / tips on writing an abstract
• Funding Resources

Would a scholarship help you to pursue your research dreams?
Connect with the Scholarship Connection! Check the "research" box in the searchable database!

This page is maintained by the Office of Undergraduate Research at the University of California at Berkeley. Please contact individual programs for information. We want your feedback about this site.E-mail us at research@learning.berkeley.edu
Last update 2/14/08

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The Office of Undergraduate Research was established in the Fall of 1997 in an effort to promote and develop the diverse research opportunities available to UC Berkeley undergraduates.