NSF REU Sites grants: recently funded projects and award sizes

Project length

Usually 3 years (5 for some renewals)

Who applies

U.S. universities, colleges and other eligible organizations

Project Description

15 pages

Participants

U.S. citizens and permanent residents, typically about 8 to 10 students a year

Limits change between notices: the notice you apply to is what counts.

• Open23-601

  Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)

  Deadline Aug 18, 2027Up to $500K

• REU Site: Applied and Computational Mathematics

  Hayden Schaeffer · University of California-Los Angeles, CA · MPS · $431K · Aug 17, 2026

  The University of California, Los Angeles Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site will provide intensive summer research opportunities in applied and computational mathematics. Each year, the program will support twelve undergraduate participants in an eight-week research experience that explores how…

• REU Site: Research Opportunities for Undergraduate Earth Systems Career Readiness

  Claire L McLeod · Miami University, OH · GEO · $417K · Aug 17, 2026

  This project will provide undergraduate students with hands-on research opportunities in a variety of scientific disciplines. Students from across the United States will be selected to participate in intensive research projects, working closely with faculty and researchers who offer mentorship and guidance. Students…

• REU Site: Mathematical Analysis and Applications

  Yunus Zeytuncu · Regents of the University of Michigan - Dearborn, MI · MPS · $366K · Aug 12, 2026

  The Research Experience for Undergraduates Site in Mathematical Analysis and Applications at the University of Michigan-Dearborn will provide an eight-week summer research program for eight undergraduate students annually over a three-year cycle. This project will recruit participants from different educational…

• REU Site: Undergraduate Advanced Manufacturing Research for Biomedical Applications

  MD Ahasan Habib · Rochester Institute of Tech, NY · ENG · $460K · Aug 11, 2026

  More than 100,000 Americans are awaiting organ transplants, and many more require replacement of damaged tissues such as bone, cartilage, or skin. Advanced manufacturing technologies, including robotic bioprinting and precision metal fabrication, offer promising pathways toward personalized tissue scaffolds and…

• REU Site: Scaffolds Across Length ScAles

  Shelly Peyton · Tufts University, MA · ENG · $456K · Aug 11, 2026

  This REU Site, Scaffolds Across Length ScAles (SALSA), offers research opportunities for 10 undergraduates each summer at Tufts University, at the interface of biotechnology and materials science. SALSA is co-led by a PI from Biomedical Engineering and co-PI from Chemical and Biological Engineering and with support…

• REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experiences in Nanotechnology and Biomedicine

  Leidong Mao · University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, GA · ENG · $486K · Aug 11, 2026

  Advancing biomedicine will increasingly require a new generation of researchers proficient in approaching research challenges across multiple disciplines. However, few investigators are taught the distinct tools and intellectual approaches of multiple disciplines. Thus, students of engineering may be unfamiliar with…

• REU Site: Intelligent Manufacturing, AI and Stimulation

  Yirong Lin · University of Texas at El Paso, TX · ENG · $453K · Aug 11, 2026

  Advanced manufacturing technologies that integrate additive manufacturing, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital twin systems are transforming how components are designed, produced, and monitored, with direct implications for aerospace, defense, energy, and semiconductor industries. Meeting this shift requires a…

• REU Site: Safe, Efficient, and Collaborative Intelligence for Autonomous Systems

  Liang Sun · Baylor University, TX · ENG · $465K · Aug 11, 2026

  This three-year REU site, “Safe, Efficient, and Collaborative Intelligence for Autonomous Systems” (SECIAS)”, hosted at Baylor University, advances research and education at the frontier of intelligent autonomous systems. Autonomous technologies — including drones, self-driving vehicles, and robotic systems — are…

• REU Site: Nanomaterials for the Energy and Water Nexus

  Rafael Verduzco · William Marsh Rice University, TX · ENG · $450K · Aug 11, 2026

  The three-year renewal REU Site project, "REU Site: Nanomaterials for the Energy and Water Nexus", at Rice University provides ten community college students in the Greater Houston area with summer research internships each year pertaining to the topics of improving water and energy resilience. Through laboratory…

• REU Site: Undergraduate Research in the Mathematical Sciences and their Applications

  J Maurice Rojas · Texas A&M University, TX · MPS · $298K · Aug 11, 2026

  The Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site in the Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M University will host twelve talented undergraduates for research training for eight weeks each summer. The REU faculty will specifically seek talented students who lack or have been isolated from research opportunities…

• REU Site: Advanced Technologies for HYpersonic, Propulsive, Energetic and Reusable Platforms

  Jeffrey L Kauffman · The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees, FL · ENG · $465K · Aug 11, 2026

  The Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site in Hypersonic, Propulsive, Energetic, and Reusable Platforms (HYPER) at the University of Central Florida (UCF) addresses the most critical technical barriers to next-generation high-speed flight and sustainable energy production. Operating as a key pillar of the…

• REU Site: Brooklyn Urban Ecology and Environment Program (BUEE)

  Tony Wilson · CUNY Brooklyn College, NY · BIO · $482K · Aug 10, 2026

  This REU Site award to Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY) in Brooklyn, NY, will support the training of ten students for 10 weeks during each of summers 2027 thru 2029. The Brooklyn Urban Ecology and Environment Program (BUEE) offers an integrative research program aimed at developing…

• REU Site: Solar and Heliospheric Physics

  Mehmet S Yalim · University of Alabama in Huntsville, AL · GEO · $470K · Aug 7, 2026

  This project will provide undergraduate students with hands-on research opportunities in a variety of scientific disciplines. Students from across the United States will be selected to participate in intensive research projects, working closely with faculty and researchers who offer mentorship and guidance. Students…

• REU Site: CU Boulder Physics/JILA

  Michael D Litos · University of Colorado at Boulder, CO · MPS · $265K · Aug 6, 2026

  This award supports the renewal of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Colorado/JILA. The site will support eight students per year for ten weeks of summer research. The intellectual focus of this REU program is physics, and undergraduate students are paired up with preeminent…

• REU Site: Optics in the City of Light

  Steven M Yalisove · Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI · MPS · $531K · Aug 6, 2026

  This award supports the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site in Physics hosted by the University of Michigan but primarily conducted in laboratories in and around Paris, France. This international REU site, Optics in the City of Light, will bring seven undergraduates to Paris each summer to conduct…

1. 1University of Missouri-Columbia, MO5
2. 2Rochester Institute of Tech, NY3
3. 3University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, GA3
4. 4University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, OK3
5. 5Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, FL2
6. 6Illinois Institute of Technology, IL2
7. 7Kansas State University, KS2
8. 8Michigan State University, MI2
9. 9OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THE, OH2
10. 10Old Dominion University Research Foundation, VA2

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