Research Opportunities for Chemistry Majors

The Saint Louis area offers a wide variety of opportunities for research and industry experience.  Research internships are desirable on resumes, and companies often offer a jobs to their best interns upon their graduation.  Many industries located in the area offer internships and use chemists in their research, development, and production.

Internship Opportunities  

Barnes Jewish Hospital-St Louis, MO
Bayer USA- Kansas City
Lab Support Genesis Program-Kansas City
Monsanto-Saint Louis

REU Programs

The National Science Foundation has created a program known as REU, or Research Experiences for Undergraduates. In this program, undergraduate students are given the opportunity to experience computational and experimental chemistry hands-on through research projects and lecture series. This program is hosted by a number of universities around the country and is carried out as a summer program where students stay in the dorm accommodations of the school and use the university's equipment in their research. In addition to providing an opportunity for students to experience unique research, the program hosts world renowned leaders both from industry and academia in the fields of chemistry and biochemistry. Click here for a list of all the current sites for this year's program, or visit the links below.  


Duquesne University
Georgia Technical Institute
Oklahoma State Univeristy-Research Experience in Integrated Nanoscience
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
University of Arkansas
University of Iowa
University of Kansas
University of Southern Mississippi-Developing Undergraduate Researchers in Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Southern Misissippi-NSF REU Site for Sustainable Aerospace and Marine Polymer Composites
Vanderbilt University