Summer Jobs & Research Experiences

Summer Jobs and Research Experiences in Physics (dates are updated as information becomes available)

Program Listings

• The American Physical Society Jobs Board
• Ball Aerospace internship and job postings
• Committee on Institutional Cooperation
• Federal jobs
• General Atomics internship listings
• Internship search by Pathways to Science
• NASA general search and application site
• NASA list of student opportunities
• OTRES - Office for Training, Research, and Education in the Sciences at CSUSM listings
• Qualcomm internship and job postings
• REU sites NSF's Research Experience for Undergrads site
• Summer Research database From Compadre
• Viasat internship and job postings

Specific Program Solicitations for 2016 & 2017

• American Physical Society internships listing
• University of Michigan Undergraduate Reserach Programs 

Offerings below are listed under the month of the application deadline.

January

• Nakatani RIES Fellowship for U.S. Students in Japan (due January 12, 2017)
• NASA Lunar and Planetary Institute at Johnson Space Center (due January 6, 2017)
• NRL Summer Research Program for minority serving institution (due January 15, 2017) 
• Physics Education REU at North Dakota State (due January 27, 2017)
• SPS Summer Internship in the Washington, DC area (due January 15, 2017)
• SULI at NUF Plasmas in Princeton (due January 9)
• SULI at the US Department of Energy (DOE) (due January 13, 2017)
• STAR research experience for future K-12 teachers (due January 15)
• SURGE Geoscience and Engineering at Stanford (due January 24, 2017)
• USC - Research Experience for Undergraduates (due January 31, 2017) 
• US Department of Homeland Security Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) (January 25, 2017)
• WAVE at Caltech (due January 10, 2017)

February

• Amgen Scholars - UC Berkley (due February 1, 2017)
• Amgen Scholars - CalTech (due February 15, 2017)
• APS/IBM Research Internship for Undergraduate Women and Underrepresented Minorities (February 15, 2017) 
• Berkeley Diversity Undergraduate Reserach Programs for students from underrepresented/disadvantaged groups (due February 1, 2017)
• Center for Emergent Materials (due February 15, 2017)
• Computational Biology at the University of Pittsburgh (due February 15)
• Cornell Engineering Diversity Programs (due February 15) 
• CRISP Researh Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at Yale (due February 1, 2017)
• Engineering REU at University of Wisconsin-Madison (due February 15)
• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (due February 15, 2017) 
• IBM Internship for Undergraduate Women (due February 15, 2017) 
• iSEED at the University at Buffalo (due February 1, 2017)
• National Ecological Observatory Network (due February 10, 2017) 
• Northwestern University SROP (February 10, 2017) 
• REU - Kansas State (due February 1)
• REU - Michigan State University (February 17, 2017) 
• REU - SRI International (February 24, 2017) 
• REU - University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne (due February 15)
• REU - University of Michigan (due February 10, 2017)
• REU - Univeristy of Washington, Seattle (due February 28)
• Space Life Sciences Training Program at Ames Research Center (SLSTP) (due February 20) 
• SMART Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder for underrepresented groups (due February 15, 2017)
• SURE at USC Viterbi School of Engineering (February 7, 2017) 
• Summer Research Early Identification Program  through The Leadership Alliance (due February 1)
• University of Arkansas Physics REU (due February 15)
• University of North Caroline, Chapel Hill Biophysical Society Summer Research Program (February 15, 2017) 
• University of Pennsylvania SUIP (February 1, 2017) 

March

• APS Bridge Program for seniors who want to apply to PhD programs (due March 20)
• Fluid Mechanics Engineering REU at the University of Alabama (due March 18)
• Interdisciplinary Materials and Physics REU at Penn State (due March 1, 2017)
• Medical Physics Internships (due March 1)
• NSF REU: Multimessenger Astrophysics at the Rochester Institute of Technology (due March 3, 2017) 
• Ocean Science REU (March 1)
• REU - University of Michigan Structure and FUnction of Proteins (March 10, 2017)
• SURF at Purdue University (due March 10)
• UC Merced Materials REU (due March 1)

December

• Mikey Leland Energy Fellowship Program (due December 30, 2016)

Past Solicitations (you can click on these in case we missed something)

• Biophysics at University of North Carolina
• Center for Space Nuclear Research
• CSU COAST 
• CUREA program in astrophysics at Mount Wilson
• Discovery Research Internships at UCSD's Center for Theoretical Biological Physics
• Homeland Security Research Internship
• Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Internships
• Lunar Exploration Internship at Johnson Space Center
• Materials and Modeling REU at the University of Missouri
• Materials Research at the University of Vermont
• MURF at CalTech
• NSERC SARP Program 
• NIMBios REU in applied and mathematical biology
• Optics REUs
• Clean Energy REU Program 
• RIPS for applied mathematics & science in industry
• SURF at CalTech