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Summer Programs for Students

Following is a list of summer opportunities for high school and college students that were brought to our attention. We cannot recommend or endorse any program in particular, as we're not familiar with every program. Please investigate eligibility and tuition requirements, if any, for each.

Programs: High School Students

Brown University, Providence, RI: Summer@Brown
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Continuing_Studies/pc/index.php

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Disease Detective Camp (tuition-free; non-residential; rising junior and seniors)
http://www.cdc.gov/gcc/exhibit/camp.htm

The Chicano Latino Youth Leadership Project
http://www.clylp.com/s/107/index.aspx?sid=107&gid=1&pgid=2000

Childrens Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, CA: Summer Research Program
http://www.chori.org/Education/Summer_Internship_Program/summer_internship.html

Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA: Minority Biomedical Research Support Program
http://www.mbrs.cau.edu/

Clark University, Worcester, MA: Summer Science Program (tuition-free)
http://www.clarku.edu/admissions/specialprograms/summerscienceprogram/index.cfm

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY: Telluride Association Summer Programs for High School Students
http://www.tellurideassociation.org/default.html

George Washington University, Washington, DC: Science & Engineering Apprenticeship Program
http://www.usaeop.com/programs/SEAP/index.htm

InnerSpark, Sacramento, CA: California State Summer School for the Arts
http://www.csssa.org/home.html

Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth, Baltimore, MD: Summer Programs
http://cty.jhu.edu/summer/grades7above.html

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA: Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science Program (MITES) (tuition-free; rising seniors)
http://web.mit.edu/mites/MITES_Home.html

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA: Research Science Institute
http://www.cee.org/rsi/index.shtml

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA: Women’s Technology Program
http://wtp.mit.edu/

Michigan Tech, Houghton, MI: Summer Youth Program
http://youthprograms.mtu.edu/

Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA: Coca-Cola Pre-College Leadership Program (residential; male sophomore and junior students or seniors who are applying to Morehouse)
http://www.morehouse.edu/centers/leadershipcenter/ccleadership.html

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD: The National Space Club Scholars Program (non-residential; sophomores only)
http://www.spaceclub.org/scholars.html

National Institute on Drug Abuse: 2008 Summer Research with NIDA (minority high school and undergraduate students)
http://www.nida.nih.gov/PDF/SPOSummer.pdf

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease’s (NIDDK): Short-term Education Program for Underrepresented Persons (STEP-UP) (sophomore, junior and seniors)
http://stepup.niddk.nih.gov/index.htm

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC: The Garcia Center for Polymers at Engineered Interfaces
http://polymer.matscieng.sunysb.edu/research_scholar.html

QuestBridge College Prep Scholarship (providing scholarships to various summer programs)
http://www.questbridge.org/access/collegepreptext/

Smith College, Northampton, MA: Smith College Summer Science & Engineering Program (for girls)
http://www.smith.edu/summerprograms/ssep/

Spelman College, Atlanta, GA: Howard Hughes Biomedical Summer Science Program (for rising senior high school females)
http://www.spelman.edu/academics/programs/biology/howardhughes_summer.shtml

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center: Youth Opportunity Program (summer internship employment)
http://www-public.slac.stanford.edu/hr/jobs/YopProgram.asp?catid=0200

Stanford University, Stanford, CA: Asian Liver Center Youth Leadership Conference (YLC) on Asian and Pacific Islander Health (residential program)
http://liver.stanford.edu./YLC/YLC2009.html

Stanford University, Stanford, CA: Stanford Medical Youth Science Program
http://smysp.stanford.edu/

Stanford University, Stanford, CA: Student Clinical Opportunities for Premedical Experience (SCOPE)
http://scope.beagooddoctor.org/index.html

Stanford University, Stanford, CA: Summer Residential Camps
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/hds/scs/youth/

Stanford University Center for Clinical Immunology (CCIS), Stanford, CA: Stanford Institutes of Medical Research (SIMR) Summer Internship Program
http://ccis.stanford.edu/

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX: Clark Summers Program
http://www.clarkscholars.ttu.edu/home.htm

University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA: Summer Sessions and Special Programs
http://www.summer.ucla.edu/highschool/hsgeneral.htm

University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA: Summer Programs
http://summerprograms.ucsd.edu/
http://meded.ucsd.edu/sdexport/

University of Houston, Houston, TX: Program for Mastery in Engineering Studies (PROMES)
http://www.egr.uh.edu/promes/?e=camps

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI: Telluride Association Summer Programs for High School Students
http://www.tellurideassociation.org/default.html

University of Illinois, Urbana, IL: GEMS – Girls Engaged in Math and Science
http://gems.ncsa.uiuc.edu/index.html

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA: Summer & Special Programs
http://www.usc.edu/dept/admissions/programs/summer//

University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY: Summer High School Institute
http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/provost/hsi/

University of Southern Florida Area Health Education Center (USF AHEC), Tampa, FL: Health Professions Summer Academy (residential program for local junior and senior students; minority and underrepresented students highly encouraged to apply)
http://health.usf.edu/ahec/HighSchool/Students-summeracademy.htm

USDA Agricultural Research Service: Summer Internships and Research Apprenticeships
http://www.ars.usda.gov/Careers/Careers.htm?docid=5927&modecode=53-25-00-00&page=2

 
Programs: College Students

Childrens Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, CA: Summer Research Program
http://www.chori.org/Education/Summer_Internship_Program/summer_internship.html

George Washington University, Washington, DC: Science & Engineering Apprenticeship Program
http://www.usaeop.com/programs/SEAP/index.htm

Institute for Responsible Citizenship (African American male sophomore)
http://www.i4rc.org/announcement.htm

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation/Howard University, Washington, DC: Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program (undergraduate seniors or recent graduates)
http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/bjscholars/index.cfm

The Latin American School of Medicine: Medical School Scholarship Program
http://www.ifconews.org/MedicalSchool/main.htm

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: Summer Fellowships (graduate)
http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/2637.cfm

National Institute on Drug Abuse: Summer Research with NIDA (minority high school and undergraduate students)
http://www.nida.nih.gov/PDF/SPOSummer.pdf

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease’s (NIDDK): Short-term Education Program for Underrepresented Persons (STEP-UP) (sophomore, junior and seniors)
http://stepup.niddk.nih.gov/index.htm

Stanford University, Stanford, CA: Student Clinical Opportunities for Premedical Experience (SCOPE)
http://scope.beagooddoctor.org/index.html

Stanford University, Stanford, CA: Stanford Premedical Student Program (SPSP)
http://coe.stanford.edu/summer/

Summer Medical and Dental Education Program (SMDEP) (at various colleges for freshman and sophomore college students)
http://www.smdep.org/

Summer Opportunities for ALANA Undergraduate Students (African American, Latino/a, Asian American and Native American undergraduates)
http://www.doorsofopportunity.org/

University of Maryland, College Park, MD: Women in Engineering Leadership Enhancement, Application and Design (LEAD) Academies (females and males; juniors and seniors)
http://www.wie.umd.edu/precollege/lead.html

University of Maryland, College Park, MD: Youth Scholars Program (rising juniors and seniors)
http://oes.umd.edu/s/ysp/

University of Maryland College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, College Park, MD: Summer Research Initiative (rising juniors and seniors)
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/dean/summer.html

University of Georgia Graduate School, Athens, GA: Summer Undergraduate Research Program (under-represented undergraduate students)
http://www.grad.uga.edu/outreach&diversity/surp.html

USDA Agricultural Research Service: Summer Internships and Research Apprenticeships
http://www.ars.usda.gov/Careers/Careers.htm?docid=5927&modecode=53-25-00-00&page=2
 

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