of internships offered through the Center of Career Education
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A sampling of Columbia journals, undergraduate research programs and university centers and institutes:
Arts and Humanities
Programs and Fellowships
- All Fields
John W. Kluge Research Fellowship - English
Richmond B. Williams Traveling Fellowship - Music
The Rapaport Prize (for study at an international summer music festival)
Undergraduate Student Publications
Academic Centers and Institutes
- Center for the Ancient Mediterranean
- Center for Jazz Studies
- Computer Music Center
- Heyman Center for the Humanities
- Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Engineering and Science
See what current students are researching in engineering and science!
Programs and Fellowships
- All Fields
John W. Kluge Research Fellowship - Research in Engineering
Undergraduate Research Involvement Program (URIP) - Biology and Biomedical
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Undergraduate Student Publications
Academic Centers and Institutes
- Center for Applied Probability
- Center for Bioethics
- Center for Environmental Research and Conservation
- Center for Integrated Science Engineering
- Earth Engineering Center
- Earth Institute
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
- National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center
- Virtual Institute of Information
Social Sciences
Programs and Fellowships
- All Fields
John W. Kluge Research Fellowship - Political Science and History
Edwin Robbins Summer Research Fellowship - East Asian Studies
Weatherhead Undergraduate Training Grant
Undergraduate Student Publications
- The Birch (Journal of Eastern European and Eurasian Culture)
- The Current (Journal of Jewish Studies)
- Columbia Undergraduate Law Review
- Journal of Politics and Society
Academic Centers and Institutes
- Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
- The Harriman Institute
- Institute of African Studies
- Institute of Latin American Studies
- Institute of War and Peace Studies
- Institute for Research in African-American Studies
- Institute for Research on Women and Gender