Life is far beyond classes, exams, grades and social media. Research, clubs, on- and off-campus volunteer or other types of opportunities help you engage with different people and programs and allow you to apply what you learned in class or to just enjoy while helping others. They are so positive ways of distracting you form stresses that can sometimes come from the demands of classes. They help you recharge your batteries, rethink and be more confident. 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. 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.
Summer research programs
- REU Sites
- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
- Research Alliance in Math and Science
- Case Western Reserve University
- Drexel University Medical School
- Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium
- Ecological Research Community
- Biomedical Research Apprenticeship Program
- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation
- NIH STEP-UP
- Boston University Medical School
- Baylor University Medical School
- Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School
- Ohio State University
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundations
- Medical University of South Carolina
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
- Keck Graduate Institute
- Mayo Clinic
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Maine Medical Center
- Brandeis University – Biological and Physical Sciences
- Oak Ridge National Lab
- Dept. of Homeland Security
- Tulane – SMART
- United Nations Climate Change
- Environmental Science – Indeed
- Woods Hole Partnership Education
- Marshal University – Minority Internship
- Michigan State University – Plant Genomics
- Indiana University – Summer Scholars Initiative
- University of Oregon
- University of Alabama – Birmingham – Paradigm
- University of Alabama – Birmingham – SIBS
- University of Georgia – Fungal Genomics & Computational Biology
- American Museum of Natural History – Evolutionary Biology
- American Physiological Society – Basics of Biology Research
- American Physiological Society – Comparative & Evolutionary Biology
- Arizona State University – Mathematical & Theoretical Biology
- Baker University, KS – Tardigrades on Trees
- Cary Institute – Transitional Ecology
- Colombia University – Earth Institute
- UCLA – Amgen Scholars
- Boston University – Chemistry in Biology
- UC Davis – Xavier Partnership
- HHMI – EXROP
- Leadership Alliance
- University of New Mexico – UPN
- UCLA – SPUR
- HHMI – EXROP
Scholarships
- American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Google Lime
- SMART
- Geological Society of America
- Benjamin Gilman International Experience
- Oregon Sea Grant
- United Negro College Fund
- Environmental Protection Agency
- NOAA
- Apple HBCU Scholarships
Volunteer Opportunities
Horticulture Club
Constitution LSU Vegetable-planting-guide
Many thanks for your participation and feedback below.