Internships & Fellowships

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Applying for an Internship, REU, or Fellowship

• Review each institution's postings for requirements and deadlines.
• Some internships, research experience for undergraduates (REUs), and fellowships are offered all year, and some only in the summer.
• Most summer programs open their applications in November/December and their deadlines are usually in January/February.

Graduate Students and Postdocs

• Argonne National Laboratory Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
• Brookhaven National Laboratory Internships & Education Programs
• Department of Energy WTDS Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program
• Fermilab Internship Program
• Lawrence Berkley Lab Advanced Light Source Doctoral Fellowship In Residence
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Summer Internships
• Los Alamos National Laboratory Internships and Education Programs
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics
• RISE: Research Internships in Science and Engineering
• Santa Fe Institute Undergraduate & Graduate Fellowships
• Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Summer Intern Program
• Smithsonian Minority Awards & Internships
• Smithsonian Office of Fellowships
• Summer of Applied Geophysical Experience (SAGE)
• Theory/Experiment Cross-training (TEX) Fellowship (2 years) - John Templeton Foundation

Undergraduate Students

University Internships and REUs

• Brigham Young University Physics REU Program
• Columbia University REU at Nevis Laboratories
• Cornell University REU in Accelerator Physics and Synchrotron Radiation Science
• Cornell University REU in Materials Research
• Cornell University Undergraduate Research Program in Observational Astronomy
• Duke University/Triangle Universities Nuclear Lab REU in Nuclear Physics
• Georgetown University REU in Materials Physics
• Harvard-Smithsonian Solar Physics REU
• Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Summer Undergraduate Research Program
• Lehigh University REU in Physics
• Middle Tennessee State University Computational Modeling and Simulation in Applied Sciences
• Northwestern University Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) REU
• Ohio State University REU in Materials Research
• Princeton University REU in Materials Science
• Princeton University Summer Undergraduate Research in Molecular Biophysics
• Purdue University REU in Physics
• Rochester Institute of Technology Imaging in the Physical Science REU
• Santa Fe Institute Undergraduate & Graduate Fellowships
• Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute REU in Nuclear & Particle Science
• University of California, Davis REU in Physics
• University of California Earthquake Information Technology
• University of Chicago Summer Undergraduate Research in Physics
• University of Florida International REU in Gravitational Physics
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Physics REU
• University of Massachusetts Amherst REU in Materials Science
• University of Michigan REU at CERN
• University of Michigan REU in Physics
• University of Notre Dame Physics REU
• University of Pennsylvania Summer Undergraduate Fellowship in Sensor Technologies (SUNFEST)
• University of Waterloo Undergraduate Research Awards in Quantum Information
• Vanderbilt Institute Nanoscale Science and Engineering REU
• Vanderbilt University REU in Physics & Astronomy
• William And Mary REUs in AMO, Condensed Matter, Particle and Nuclear Physics

National Labs, Industry, and Other Internships and Fellowships

• Brookhaven National Laboratory Internships & Education Programs
• Department of Energy WTDS Community College Internships (CCI)
• Department of Energy WTDS Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI)
• Fermilab Helen Edwards Summer Internship
• Fermilab Internship Program
• Fermilab Lee Teng Undergraduate Fellowship
• Fermilab Summer Internships in Science and Technology (SIST)
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Undergraduate Internships
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Summer Internships
• Los Alamos National Laboratory Internships & Education Programs
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory Summer Student Research Assistantships
• National Undergraduate Fellowship Program Plasma Physics & Fusion Energy Sciences
• RESESS Internship (Minority Physics & Earth Science Undergraduates)
• RISE: Research Internships in Science and Engineering
• Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Summer Intern Program
• Smithsonian Minority Awards & Internships
• Smithsonian Office of Fellowships
• Society of Physics Students Summer Internships
• SRI International REU, Molecular Physics Program
• Summer of Applied Geophysical Experience (SAGE)