Many existing collaborations, established through memoranda of understanding and/or agreements, provide opportunities to program faculty, and graduate students, to collaborate with scientists from various national laboratories during the academic year, and to perform research activities at their laboratories during the summer. These research laboratories include:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
- Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC)
- Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL)
- University of Mississippi Medical Center
- Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ)
- NASA Stennis Space Center
- Department of Navy – Naval Research Laboratories
- Tulane University Health Sciences Center
- Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
- University of Maryland Institute of Biotechnology
- Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (MDMR)
- Mississippi State University Louisiana State University
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- University of Mississippi (Oxford)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratories