Undergraduate Research

Summer Internships

This is a partial list of summer internship opportunities for undergraduate students in physics.

  1. NSF REU program The National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates consists of many individual programs in physics and other disciplines at universities and national laboratories throughout the United States. Individual programs are administered by the host university or institution. The NSF website provides links to these.
  2. NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program Summer internships at NASA facilities throughout the United States.
  3. Department of Energy Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) The department of energy oversees many of the national laboratories in the United States. Work done at these laboratories ranges from fundamental physics to weapons development top environmental science.
  4. Department of Homeland Security STEM Summer internship program. Undergraduate internships in science, technology, engineering and mathematics on homeland security related projects.
  5. SPS Internships Internships in both research and outreach/policy.
  6. Compadre list A list of summer internship opportunities in physics and related disciplines at a wide range of institutions.