Student Research Opportunities

Program Description Student Level
ANDALE Scholars Program

Advancing Nutrition Development through Alliances for Leadership & Education Scholars Program
Academic year and summer externship research and mentoring opportunity for nutrition, health sciences and kinesiology students. Scholars participate in monthly professional development trainings and learning communities.
  • Sophomores
  • Juniors
  • Seniors (with fall graduation date)
  • Transfer
Avanzando Academic year learning community for 30 CSULB Hispanic/Latinx undergraduate students from any major. Scholars participate in 14 two-hour workshops, 7 during the fall and 7 during spring semester.  Participants receive a $500 stipend.  Avanzando provides culturally relevant tools, information, and support systems to navigate the CSULB environment, improve academic performance and graduate.
  • Freshman
  • Sophmores
  • Transfer
  • Preference
BISC This program trains advanced bachelors, post-baccalaureate, and masters students in the theory and techniques of stem cell research for the development of therapies. Ten interns will be selected annually to complete the paid second year of a two-year stem cell track of Biotechnology Certificate Program at CSULB. These interns will each receive a $30,000 stipend plus up to $7,000 tuition to perform full-time research on one of more than thirty laboratories at Cedars-Sinai, City of Hope, or UCI.
  • Junior
  • Senior
  • Transfer
  • Graduate
Bridges to the Baccalaureate 9 week summer science research experience for community college students from LBCC and Cerritos. Transfer

Must have completed 24+ units
BUILD

Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity
CSULB BUILD Program offers intensive research training opportunities for undergraduate students interested in pursuing a research career in health-related research. Health-related research uses innovative methods to examine the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases to improve health and wellbeing. It is conducted across a number of different disciplines (e.g., engineering and the behavioral, biological, clinical, physical, public health and social sciences) and can include basic, applied, and translational approaches to studying several health issues facing our communities and our nation.
  • Junior
  • Senior
  • Transfer
CHAAT

Center for Human Factors in Advanced Aeronautics Technologies
Performs ongoing research to measure human performance in complex systems such as the Next Generation Airspace Transportation System (NextGen). We also participate in the training of the future workforce in aeronautics and other NASA-related disciplines, through the training of students in human factors
  • Freshman
  • Sophomore
  • Junior
  • Senior
  • Transfer
EB

Engineering Bridge
Program is offered to incoming freshmen as a Learning Community Cluster. This type of structure enhances the opportunity for students to build community among students, among student and faculty, and among faculty involved with these students. The goal of the program is to improve students' academic performance and increase their ability to graduate in four years. It is an academic year-long program commencing with the Summer Bridge Program in late August. Students who are accepted into EB will participate in a 5-day Summer Bridge residential program and continue through the academic year as a single cohort thru Fall and Spring.
  • Freshman
Engineering Honors Program Offers an opportunity for academically successful and motivated students interested in completing their program of study in four years. In addition to honors-level courses, students will be engaged in the application of engineering through a year-long research project, culminating in a thesis. The purpose of this program is to prime students for success as practicing professionals in engineering industry as well as strengthen their potential success in graduate studies.
  • Freshman
  • Sophomore
  • Junior
  • Senior
  • Transfer
HSI STEM

Hispanic Serving Institutions
The Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) program at CSULB helps first generation educated Latino students successfully pursue degrees and careers in STEM fields.
  • Freshman
  • Sophomore
  • Junior
  • Senior
  • Graduate
  • Transfer
LB Collaborative

Long Beach Collaborative to Prevent Latino Childhood Obesity: Familias Saludables
An applied community-based participatory research project with two conditions.  One year graduate fellowships for bilingual (English-Spanish) students; preference to public health, social work, kinesiology, child/human development. Graduate
LSAMP

Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation
CSU-LSAMP is sponsored both by the National Science Foundation and the California State University, providing a statewide program for the enhancement of math and science skills for students have faced or face social, educational or economic barriers, majoring in science, technology, mathematics and engineering (STEM). LSAMP at CSU Long Beach promotes academic year research fellows, summer research fellows, and offers financial support for summer research opportunities, including NSF-REUs and LSAMP-funded international research programs.
  • Freshman
  • Sophomore
  • Junior
  • Senior
  • Transfer
MARC

Maximizing Access to Research Careers
Training program offers an extraordinary opportunity for students seeking careers in biomedical research. It aims to increase the number of disadvantaged students populations (including: ethnic minority, students with disabilities and low-income students) who can successfully gain acceptance into graduate programs leading to the Ph.D. degree in a biomedical science (biology, chemistry, psychology, epidemiology and other social and behavioral sciences).
  • Sophomore
  • Junior
  • Transfer
Must have two or more years left in degree

McNair

Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program

The Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program is a TRiO program funded by the U.S. Department of Education and designed to prepare and support underrepresented undergraduate students in their pursuit of doctoral studies.

  • Junior
  • Senior
PhysTEC

Physics Teacher Education Coalition
Supports physics majors & minors considering a teaching career.
  • Freshman
  • Sophomore
  • Junior
  • Senior
  • Graduate
  • Transfer
RISE

Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement

The goal of the NIH in funding the RISE program is to enhance the diversity of the biomedical research workforce through the training of the next generation of biomedical research professionals.  This professional development program prepares Physical and Biological Sciences, Psychology, and Engineering undergraduate students and Physical and Biological Sciences MS students to enable them to earn PhD Degrees and establish biomedical research careers. 

  • Sophomore
  • Senior
  • Graduate
  • Transfer
  • Undergraduate in their last two years of undergraduate degree training and MS degree candidates.
TRIO TRIO is Educational Opportunity for Low-Income and Disabled Americans.
  • Upward Bound (UB) - College Prep
  • Talent Search (TS) - College Prep
  • Student Support Services (SSSP) - College
  • College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP)- College
  • Freshman
  • Sophomore
  • Junior
  • Senior
  • Transfer
UROP 

Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program
A 1-2 year program that offers first and second-year students the chance to participate in the research and creative process with faculty.
  • Freshman
  • Junior
  • Sophomore
  • Transfer