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Academic Internships
Internships in college and university labs are available in all disciplines. These departments include those in medical schools, pharmacology schools and engineering schools. Professors with grant support for their research can hire undergraduates for a summer research internship. Departments who have received a NSF-REU grant have money specifically for undergraduate interns. You can find out which departments have received these funds by going to the NSF web site for REU. The REU funds are for US citizens but research grants to individual faculty can be used to hire non-US as well as US citizens.
IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship) is a national recuitment program funded by NSF and has a search engine of programs all over the United States. You can search by institution, academic interest, or by region. Clicking on the button for "Summer Research for Undergraduates" is a more navigable list of REU sites than looking directly at the NSF web site (the link in the first paragraph).
DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst/German Academic Exchange Service) - Want to do research abroad in Germany? University and industry labs are available in most of the sciences, and most of the labs are pretty international and so are conducted in English, no previous German language required!
You can also check Idealist.org for information on international internships. This is a very good way to check out graduate or medical programs you are interested in after graduation. You can get references from your research director here that will carry great weight with schools.
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