Student opportunities

Life is far beyond classes, exams, grades and social media. Research, student clubs, on- and off-campus volunteer or other types of opportunities help you engage with different people and programs. These engagements allow you to apply what you learned in class or to just enjoy while helping others. They are highly positive ways of distracting you form stresses that can sometimes come from the demands of classes. They help you empty the mind a little bit, recharge your batteries and reconnect with the present moment. Altogether, they maximize the value of your experience at Xavier. Hopefully you will remember some fun things that happened during such extracurricular work rather than a bad grade you got from a class. You can find many opportunities on-campus by talking to faculty in different departments, and from various Xavier offices including Center for Undergraduate Research and Graduate Opportunity. Following are some opportunities I found on the web that I encourage you to apply, especially summer research. I have no doubt that they will expand your Xavier experience to a new level with new people to meet and new strengths to gain. Best of luck!

Summer research programs

1. REU Sites                                                                     
2. Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
3. Case Western Reserve University
4. Drexel University Medical School
5. Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium
6. Ecological Research Community
7. Biomedical Research Apprenticeship Program
8. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation
9. NIH STEP-UP
10. Boston University Medical School
11. Baylor University Medical School
12. Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School
13. Ohio State University
14. Mount Sinai School of Medicine
15. Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundations
16. Medical University of South Carolina
17. Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
18. Keck Graduate Institute
19. Mayo Clinic
20. Massachusetts General Hospital
21. Maine Medical Center
22. Brandeis University – Biological and Physical Sciences
23. Oak Ridge National Lab
24. Dept. of Homeland Security
25. Tulane – SMART
26. United Nations Climate Change
27. Environmental Science – Indeed
28. Woods Hole Partnership Education
29. Marshal University – Minority Internship
30. Michigan State University – Plant Genomics  
31. Indiana University – Summer Scholars Initiative
32. University of Oregon
33. University of Alabama – Birmingham – Paradigm
34. University of Alabama – Birmingham – SIBS
35. University of Georgia – Fungal Genomics & Computational Biology
36. American Museum of Natural History – Evolutionary Biology
37. American Physiological Society – Basics of Biology Research
38. American Physiological Society – Comparative & Evolutionary Biology
39. Arizona State University – Mathematical & Theoretical Biology
40. NIST Summer Research
41. Cary Institute – Transitional Ecology
42. Colombia Cimate School
43. UCLA – Amgen Scholars
44. Columbia Climate School REU
45. UC Davis – Xavier Partnership
46. HHMI – EXROP
47. Maine Health Institute for Research 
48. University of New Mexico – UPN
49. UCLA – Summer Research
50. Johns Hopkins University
51. University of Pittsburgh
52. LSU – Summer Research
53. LSU – CURIOUS

Scholarships

1. American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2. Google Lime
3. SMART
4. Geological Society of America
5. Benjamin Gilman International Experience
6. Oregon Sea Grant
7. United Negro College Fund
8. Environmental Protection Agency
9. NOAA
10. TMCF Scholarships
11. ZNEF Scholarships

Volunteer opportunities

1. Youth Rebuilding NOLA
2. Volunteer Match

Xavier Horticulture Club

Constitution    LSU Vegetable-planting-guide

Many thanks for your participation and feedback below.

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