Research & Bridge Programs


Writing Tips

Tips for Requesting Recommendation Letters

Grad Schools that don’t require PGRE


Research Programs 


Research Opportunities at U. Arizona   

Opportunities at LPL, NOAO, Physics & Astronomy Departments

UA Undergrad Research Website

UA Undergraduate Research Engagement Experience

Arizona Space Grant Consortium   contact: Susan Brew sbrew@lpl.arizona.edu    

Summer Research Insitute   contact:  Nura Dualeh nura@email.arizona.edu


National Research Opportunities   (US citizens/permanent residents)   

Bryce Canyon National Park Summer Astronomy Outreach Internship 

Brookhaven National Labs  

Leadership Alliance

NASA Internships and Fellowships


National Research Opportunities (may require US citizenship)

List of REU programs in Astronomy

List of REU programs in Physics  

SURF (JPL Positions Require Citizenship - but others don't)   (if you are interested in this you’ll need to identify a potential advisor by early January). 

JPL Internships


National Research Opportunities (NO US Citzenship Requirements)

STScI Summer Internship Program  

Society of Physics Intenship: Policy & Education

FermiLab Internship for Physics Majors

LIGO SURF Program at Caltech

Yale: Dorrit Hoffleit Undergraduate Research Scholarship


International Research Opportunities (passport needed

LEAPS: Leiden/ESA Astrophysics Programme for Summer Students   

CERN: Particle Physics  

Perimeter Institute (Canada): Theoretical Physics/Astrophysics

Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Taipei, Taiwan)

Internships at the Max Planck Institute fur Astronomy (Heidelberg, Germany)

Astrophysics Research Center Summer Studentships (Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland)

Research Interships in Science and Engineering (RISE) Germany

ASTRON/JIVE Summer Student Programme (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy)

SURE Program in Dept. of Physics & Astronomy  and Space Sciences  (University of Leicester, UK) 

 

Open to DACA and/or Undocumented Students 

 

—Open to Women Specifically :     

                          APS/IBM Research Undergraduate Program for Women  

                          National Astronomy Consortium  


—Open to Under Represented Minorities Specifically: 

                           Banneker Institute at Harvard  (Juniors) 

                           TAURUS  Program at UT Austin 

                            APS/IBM Internship 

                           National Astronomy Consortium  

                           JPL  Maximizing Student Potential in STEM

                           Fermi Lab  Summer Internships in Science and Technology (SIST)



Bridge Programs 


(transition from Undergrad to Grad School)


               APS Bridge Program  (open to DACA) 

               Fisk-Vanderbilt Physical Sciences Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program 

               UC San Diego-Morehouse Physics Bridge Program

               Cal-Bridge: a California State University/University of California Astronomy and Physics Bridge Program

               Wesleyan University Masters in Astronomy

               Columbia University Natural Sciences Bridge to PhD Program 

               Princeton Post-Baccalaureate Program  (Astronomy)

               Princeton Bridge Program (Physics)


APS Bridge Programs:

               Ohio State University Physics Masters to PhD Bridge Program

               University of South Florida Physics Bridge Program 


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