Research Areas
Each student will be selected to work on a project that is funded through a specific source, outlined below. Please visit the links below for more information on the specific program, including the research and faculty involved with each program. You will asked to specify your program of interest and research focus in the application.
Please note that the Privacy Tools Project and Open Differential Privacy program has a separate application, which can be found here.
2026 Research Areas/Funding Sources
Study the mechanics of films and interfaces, design and test materials for soft robotics, and engineer materials and techniques for biological studies at cellular scales.
Contingent on continued funding.
Join a multidisciplinary effort to help enable the collection, analysis and sharing of personal data for research in social science and other fields while providing privacy for individual subjects.
If you are interested in the Privacy Tools Project or OpenDP, do not apply through the REU Embark application. Instead, please apply here.
Contingent on continued funding.
The Summer Program at Harvard in Earth and Environmental Research (SPHEER), funded by the National Science Foundation, is a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program aimed at undergraduate students from around the US. Our students join us for 10 weeks during the summer in an investigation of the drivers and consequences of Earth system change. Such change occurs across multiple timescales, from decades to millions of years.
Our goals for the summer are as follows: help students develop a roadmap of the interplay between field research, laboratory research, data analysis, and modeling in the study of environmental change, while incorporating diverse cultural perspectives in the study of environmental change. Experimental, modeling, and computational projects will probe the interplay of atmospheric, water, and land systems.
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/spheer/home
Contingent on continued funding.