Each summer, Johns Hopkins University offers undergraduates the opportunity to engage in meaningful, hands-on research across a wide range of disciplines. Through funded programs, mentored research experiences, and immersive laboratory and computational projects, students work closely with faculty and graduate researchers while exploring potential academic and career paths.
Whether you are interested in engineering, computer science, life sciences, or interdisciplinary research, Johns Hopkins summer research programs are designed to help you develop research skills, build professional networks, and contribute to cutting-edge discoveries.
Summer REU Options @ Johns Hopkins
Computational Sensing and Medical Robotics
The REU program in Computational Sensing and Medical Robotics (CSMR) is an intensive, ten-week program of laboratory research and instruction, beginning end of May and concluding in early August. Projects are listed by departments including Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Computer Science.
Materials Growth and Engineering
A research experience for undergraduates (REU) position is available at the Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis, and Discovery of Interface Materials (PARADIM) bulk crystal growth facility located on the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland.
Eight weeks of hands-on research in a molecular modeling and design laboratory, developing new algorithms and discovering new science.
Nanotechnology for Biology and Engineering
The Institute for Nanobiotechnology at Johns Hopkins University offers undergraduate students from colleges and universities around the country a chance to participate in research projects in the exciting and rapidly growing area of nanobiotechnology, a place where biology, medicine, and nanotech meet.
The JHU BioREU is a Research Experiences for Undergraduates site funded by the National Science Foundation. The10-week summer program is designed to provide an intensive, mentored research experience for undergraduates, especially those attending institutions with limited research opportunities. The focus of the REU program is visualization of macromolecules in biological research.
Multi- institutional partnership providing research opportunities for) students with the Materials Science in Extreme Environments University Research Alliance (MSEE URA), a basic research program focused on understanding and mitigating the effects of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons of mass destruction.
This eight-week workshop provides an intense, dynamic intellectual environment. Undergraduates work closely alongside senior researchers as part of a multi-university research team, which has been assembled to attack current Human Language Technology challenges.
Amgen Biomedical Science and Biotechnology
This summer research program in science and biotechnology aims to provide undergraduates with the opportunity to engage in hands-on research. The Amgen Scholars selected will receive a competitive summer stipend and be housed near the Hopkins campus, in a research community with other summer researchers.
The PARADIM Materials Discovery REU is a 10-week summer program designed to provide an intensive, mentored research experience for undergraduates, especially those attending institutions with limited research opportunities. The PARADIM Bulk Crystal Growth Facility is located at Johns Hopkins University. Together with the thin film growth facilities at Cornell, it provides unprecedented capabilities for discovery of new materials and interfaces.
The Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI) and the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) are pleased to host the Extreme Arts Summer Project/Internship. The goal of this project/internship is for a MICA student to collaborate with HEMI researchers to explore visual representations of the HEMI organization, structure, current research, and relationships.