Academic Advising and Planning Resources

Academic advisors are here to support you throughout your time at UWT. Visit our academic advising website for contact information, academic planning tools, and other helpful resources.

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SCI & TPS After Hours Research

Complete this form if you will be doing any after hours research in the Science or TPS buildings.  After hours are defined as any hours between 5:00 PM - 8:00 AM, weekends, and all UW holidays.

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Faculty Advisor Change Request

Complete this form if you would like to request a new SAM faculty advisor (must be currently enrolled in a SAM Major).

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Research Opportunities and Career Planning

Summer Research Programs

Career Planning

  • Contact your faculty advisor.  All declared SAM majors are assigned a faculty advisor to assist with capstone and career planning.  If you are unsure who your advisor is, please email samhelp@uw.edu with your name and student ID number.
  • WOIS: The Career Information System

Equipment

  • Calculators: Graphing calculators are available for checkout at the library (not the TLC)
  • SAM Analytical Equipment: please speak with your faculty mentor

Other Resources

Funding Resources

General Resources

Study Resources

Fostering an Effective Learning Environment 

Helpful Videos & Document Library

Summer Undergraduate Research Programs

Notes: Links current as of Jan 2026. Included are programs that accept applications from external students. Most application deadlines are January into early February. Some programs are included but not open in 2026 due to funding.

REU = Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF Sponsored)

Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Bronx, NY

AMGEN Scholars – partnership with 14 universities across the country (deadline Feb 1, 2026)

Augusta University -The Graduate School & Medical College of Georgia - Augusta, GA

Baylor College of Medicine - Houston, TX

Bigelow Labs for Ocean Science – East Boothbay, MA

Big Ten Academic Alliance - Champaign, IL

Boston University – Boston, MA

Boston University School of Medicine - Boston, MA

Brigham and Women's Hospital (in collaboration with Harvard-affiliated hospitals) - Boston, MA

Brown University - Providence, RI

California State University – San Marcos – San Marcos, CA

Case Western Reserve University - Cleveland, OH

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Philadelphia, PA

Children's Hospital Research Foundation of Cincinnati, Division of Developmental Biology - Cincinnati, OH

City College of New York – New York, NY

City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute - Duarte, CA

Cohen Children's Medical Center - Queens, NY

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory – Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Colorado State University – Fort Collins, CO

Cornell University – Ithaca, NY

Dana Farber Cancer Research Center/Harvard, Boston, MA

Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine – Hanover, NH

Delaware State University – Dover, DE

Drexel University College of Medicine - Philadelphia, PA

Duke University School of Medicine - Durham, NC

East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine - Greenville, NC

Old Dominion/Eastern Virginia Medical School - Norfolk, VA

Emory University School of Medicine - Atlanta, GA

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center – Seattle, WA

George Washington University - Washington, DC

Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School - New York, NY

Harvard Medical School - Boston, MA

Hofstra North Shore/LIJ School of Medicine – Long Island, NY

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cech Fellows Program – multiple institutions

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai - New York, NY

Indiana University School of Medicine - Indianapolis, IN

(The) Jackson Laboratory – Bar Harbor, ME

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - Baltimore, MD

Johns Hopkins University – Baltimore, MD

Keck Graduate Institute - Claremont, CA

Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA

Loma Linda University School of Medicine - Loma Linda, CA

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center – New Orleans, LA

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Dept Pharmacology – Shreveport, LA

Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine – Chicago, IL

Marine Biological Laboratory – Woods Hole, ME

Marshall University/Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine - Huntington, WV

Maine Medical Center Research Institute - Scarborough, ME

Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard - Boston, MA

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Cambridge, MA

Mayo Clinic - Rochester, MN

MD Anderson Cancer Research Center - Houston, TX

Medical College of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, WI

Medical University of South Carolina - Charleston, SC

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - New York, NY

Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation - Minneapolis, MN

Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory – Bar Harbor, ME

Mount Sinai/Icahn School of Medicine - New York, NY

National Institutes of Health - Bethesda, MD

Nemours Summer Undergraduate Research Program (NSURP) – multiple sites including

Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, PA) w/ Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware

Nemours Children’s Health, Jacksonville, FL

Nemours Children’s Hospital, Orlando, FL

Nemours Children’s Health, Pensacola, FL

New York University – New York, NY

New York University School of Medicine - New York, NY

North Carolina A&T University – Greensboro, NC

North Carolina State University – Raleigh, NC

Northwestern University – Evanston, IL

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine - Evanston, IL

Ohio State University – Columbus, OH

Ohio University, Athens, OH

Oregon Health and Science University - Portland, OR

Penn State University, College of Medicine - Hershey, PA

Princeton University – Princeton, NJ

Purdue University – West Lafayette, IN

Rice University – Houston, TX

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Rutgers University – Piscataway, NJ

Rutgers Health Science Campus, Newark, NJ

Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School - New Brunswick, NJ

Rutgers, New Jersey Medical School - Newark, NJ

Sanford Research – Sioux Falls, SD

San Francisco University – San Francisco, CA

Seattle University – Seattle, WA

Simmons University – Boston, MA

Stanford University School of Medicine - Stanford, CA

State University of New York (SUNY) Albany – Albany, NY

State University of NY (SUNY) Binghamton – Binghamton, NY

State University of New York Upstate Medical University - Syracuse, NY

Stony Brook University School of Medicine - Stony Brook, NY

Syracuse University – Syracuse, NY

Texas A&M University – College Station, TX

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences - Lubbock, TX

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard - Cambridge, MA

The George Washington University - Washington, DC

The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine - Farmington, CT

The Rockefeller University - New York, NY

University of Alabama at Birmingham - Birmingham, AL

University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine - Little Rock, AR

University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

University of California, Irvine - Irvine, CA

University of California, Merced – Merced, CA

University of California, Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA

University of California, San Diego - La Jolla, CA

University of California, San Francisco - San Francisco, CA

University of Chicago – Chicago, IL

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine - Cincinnati, OH

University of Colorado – Aurora, CO

University of Colorado School of Medicine - Denver, CO

University of Connecticut Health Center - Farmington, CT

University of Florida College of Medicine - Gainesville, FL

University of Florida, Scripps Institute – Jupiter, FL

University of Georgia – Athens, GA

University of Hawaii and UofH John A. Burns School of Medicine - Honolulu, HI

Note: limited to students from Hawaii or Guam or at UofH

University of Illinois at Chicago - Chicago, IL

University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine - Iowa City, IA

University of Kansas - Lawrence, KS

University of Kansas School of Medicine - Kansas City, KS

University of Kentucky - Lexington, KY

University of Louisville School of Medicine - Louisville, KY

University of Maryland – College Park, MD

University of Maryland School of Medicine - Baltimore, MD

University of Massachusetts – Boston – Boston, MA

University of Massachusetts Medical School - Worcester, MA

University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine - Miami, FL

University of Michigan/School of Medicine - Ann Arbor, MI

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, MN

University of Mississippi - Jackson, MS

University of Missouri - Columbia, MO

University of Nebraska – Lincoln - Lincoln, NE

University of Nebraska Medical Center - Omaha, NE

University of New Mexico School of Medicine - Albuquerque, NM

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/School of Medicine - Chapel Hill, NC

University of Notre Dame – Notre Dame, IN

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center - Oklahoma City, OK

University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA

University of Pittsburgh/School of Medicine - Pittsburgh, PA

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry - Rochester, NY

University of South Dakota, Sanford School of Medicine - Vermillion, SD

University of Tennessee – Knoxville, TN

University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine - Memphis, TN

University of Texas/MD Anderson Cancer Center - Smithville, TX; Houston, TX

University of Texas Medical Branch - Galveston, TX

University of Texas Health – Houston, Houston, TX

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio - San Antonio, TX

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Dallas, TX

University of Utah - Salt Lake City, UT

University of Virginia/School of Medicine - Charlottesville, VA

University of Washington/School of Medicine - Seattle, WA

General list: https://www.washington.edu/undergradresearch/summer/programs/

University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI

Vanderbilt University/School of Medicine - Nashville, TN

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry - Richmond, VA

Virginia Tech/School of Medicine - Roanoke, VA

Wake Forest University - Winston-Salem, NC

Washington State University – Pullman, WA

Washington University - St. Louis, MO

Wayne State University School of Medicine - Detroit, MI

Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering - New York, NY

West Virginia University - Morgantown, WV

Yale University and Yale School of Medicine - New Haven, CT

Total: 300

Pathways to Science searchable database: https://pathwaystoscience.org/Undergrads.aspx

Summer Undergraduate Research Programs: Advice for a successful application

Scholarships