These fellowships require you to plan your own research project and find a mentor yourself.
Biology Research Fellowship Program: The Biology Research Fellowship Program, coordinated by the Biology Department, offers the opportunity for students to engage in faculty-guided scientific research over multiple years.
Biology Summer Research Fellowship: The Biology Summer Research Fellowship is a summer research experience coordinated by the Biology Department for majors interested in working on faculty research. Students are selected by faculty mentors to engage in this program.
Carbon Scholars Program: The Carbon Scholars Program is a full two-year, interdisciplinary research opportunity for science and math majors to work closely with faculty mentors. The program is designed for students who plan to pursue research in graduate or professional school.
The Carroll and Adelaide Johnson Scholarship: The Carroll and Adelaide Johnson Scholarship offers rising juniors opportunities to conduct a two-year research project, under the mentorship of a Loyola faculty member, that addresses a social justice issue focused on women and/or gender.
The Baum Undergraduate Research Fellowship in the School for Environmental Sustainability (SES): This fellowship provides both summer and academic-year research projects for students interested in researching urban environmental issues.
Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage (CCIH) Undergraduate Research Fellowship: The CCIH fellowship offers an academic-year research fellowship to undergraduate students enrolled in the Catholic Studies Minor program. This fellowship supports CCIH-funded faculty research projects, as well as CCIH’s international research projects.
John Grant Fellowships for Research in Bioethics: Starting in spring semester 2022, the John Grant Endowment for Health Care Ethics will be offering 3 research fellowships in bioethics. These fellowships will be awarded to undergraduate students who propose a research plan to work with a faculty member or doctoral student on a project of their choosing that relates to health care, bioethics, human health and the environment, human or animal research, biotechnologies, or any other bioethics-related topic.
Mulcahy Scholars Program: The Mulcahy Scholars Program is designed for College of Arts and Sciences majors in the natural sciences who are interested in working on individual projects with faculty mentors or serving as a research assistant for ongoing faculty projects in the academic year
The William and June Pizzi Undergraduate Research Fellowship: The Pizzi Undergraduate Research Fellowship is a one-year fellowship for students majoring or minoring in Neuroscience. The student receives $3500 in hourly pay, a $3500 research budget, and $1000 for travel to present their work. Applications are due March 1 through the LUROP Application Portal.