Undergraduate and Graduate Research Opportunities 

The ADR office is committed to advancing research opportunities for students in the COSAM.  This page maintains a list of internal and external research opportunities, scholarships, and fellowships that are available to students.

Finding Undergraduate Research Opportunities

• Internal: AU Office of Undergraduate Research
• Internal: AU Office of Undergraduate Research - List of External Research Opportunities
• Internal: COSAM Finding Undergraduate Research Opportunities page
  
• External: National Science Foundation – list of Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) website
• External: Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) – list of Undergraduate Research opportunities website
• External: Centers for Disease Control (CDC) – list of Short Term Undergraduate Research experiences
• External: Department of Energy – Summer Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (DOE-SULI)
• External: NASA – list of research opportunities for students
• External: National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)
• External: Several regional medical schools also host REU-type programs for students interested in biomedical research.  We recommend doing a search on “Biomedical REU” to obtain the most up-to-date information on which programs are available.

Graduate Research Opportunities

• Internal: AU NSF Research Traineeship 
• Internal: COSAM Graduate Student Travel Award
• Internal: AU Graduate School funding opportunities

Fellowships and Scholarships

• Alabama Space Grant Consortium
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• Office of Energy Science Graduate Fellowship
• National Academies Pre-Doctoral Ford Foundation Fellowship Program