Internships/Scholarships
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Summer and School Year Internship, Research Experience Programs, Scholarships and Awards for Undergraduates
SUMMER PROGRAMS, CO-OP PROGRAMS, AND INTERNSHIPS - The ETSU Summer Research Fellowship Program
- Carnegie Institute: Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
- NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates Program
- Oak Ridge National Laboratories Opportunities
- Oak Ridge Higher Education Research Experiences
- Summer Research Programs in Astrobiology at the SETI Institute
- Department of Energy Internships (including Oak Ridge): note: deadline is Jan 4, 2013
- SMART Internships/Scholarships (deadline December 14, 2012)
- Co-op programs for physics majors listed through the ETSU co-op program
- A link for NASA summer internships
- The NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program
- School year and summer internships at Kennedy Space Center, in Florida
- NASA Student Opportunities
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory Summer Research Program
- High Altitude Observatory Summer Undergraduate Program
- Synchrotron Radiation Center
- The RISE Research Internships in Science and Engineering: A program for US undergraduate science majors to spend a summer doing research in Germany. This includes students in Physics, as well as Biology, Chemistry, Geology, and Engineering.
- The APS/IBM Research Internship for Undergraduate Women
- Johns Hopkins Summer Internship program in Nanobiotechnology
- Summer Program at the Space Telescope Institute
- Research Experience in Computational Astronomy and Physics at the Univ. of North Carolina Chapel Hill
- U.S. Department of Energy Programs: Undergraduate Internships and Pre-Service Teacher programs
- Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships: At Department of Energy Facilities
- Cornell University Research Experience Programs in Nanotechnology
- The McNair Scholars program: has both summer and school year opportunities.
- Summer Internships at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
- The Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program at the Department of Energy.
- Summer program: NASA Glenn Academy for Space Exploration
- The Washington Center student internship program
- The St. Jude Children's Research Hospital student research program in biomedical and oncology research.
- Internship program with the National Computational Science Institute
- Internships with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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Mass Media Internships for Science/Engineering Students (through the AAAS)
The University of Delaware Marine Sciences summer program - The AmeriCorp program. Note that there are three separate programs in the AmeriCorp program: AmeriCorps State and National program, the AmeriCorps NCCC program, and AmeriCorps VISTA (note that the AmeriCorp VISTA program provides one-year internships for new graduates.)
- Student Internships at the FBI
- SARA REU Program in Astronomy
- Research Experience Program in Material Science and Engineering at Yale University
- Research Experience for Undergraduate in Astronomy Program at Maria Mitchell Observatory
- Research Experience for Undergraduates in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Oklahoma
- Summer Internships at Homeland Security
- Internships at the Environment Protection Agency (EPA)
- Other Internships and Jobs at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Mickey Leland Energy Internships at the Dept of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy, for women and minorities who are currently enrolled in STEM majors
- Student Internships at Eastman Chemical Corporation
- Student Internships at Shodor
- Internships/Co-ops/Jobs at Lockheed-Martin
- University of Nebraska Internships: a wide variety of topics
- UNLV REU program in Physics and Astronomy
- Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Science Internships at Lousiana State University
- Material Science Internships at Lousiana State University
- Southern Illinois University Carbondale REU in Materials Research
- Summer program for undergraduates at the Medical College of Wisconsin
- NEW! Summer internships at the University of Tennessee Space Institute
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Research Program at Marshall University in Computational Science (includes computational projects in Physics)
For local opportunities, in addition to the The ETSU Summer Research Fellowship Program listed above, contact physics and astronomy faculty members in the dept for other possible summer research jobs in the department or participation in the SARA REU program.For an example of a past summer REU project, see the summer 2004 University of Wisconsin REU project of Rachel Baker (ETSU Physics major class of 2005).
There is a long list of summer research opportunities for physics majors at http://www.the-nucleus.org/research/
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS, AND OTHER PROGRAMS
- The McKee Scholarship: Due October 5, 2009: students must have GPA >= 2.5. Application Form
- The NASA MUST Scholarship
- The ETSU Research Discovery Program: These are Federal Work Study (FWS) or Academic Performance Scholarship (APS) positions in which a student works with a professor in a research environment. These positions can extend into the summer if the student is enrolled in summer classes and if work study money is available.
- ETSU Student/Faculty Collaborative Grants
- ETSU Honors-in-Discipline Scholarships
- Up to two $3000 annual scholarships can be offered per year per department as part of the ETSU Math and Science Scholars program. People receiving these scholarships are required to work 75 hours per semester (about 5 hours per week) tutoring developmental math students. Students in the University Honors, Honors-in-Discipline, Academic Performance Scholarship, or Roan Scholars program are not eligible for this program
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- Barbara Lotze Scholarships for Future High School Physics Teachers, from the American Association of Physics Teachers
- Robert Noyce Scholarship for prospective teachers
- Awards and Scholarships through the Imaging and Geospatial Information Society
- The Teach For America program
- The Western Kentucky Program for Science/Math Majors interested in becoming teachers
- Other programs for new Physics graduates interested in becoming teachers
- Fellowships through the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation
- Student grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for research projects in their `People, Prosperity, and Planet' program.
- Sigma Xi Student research grants (only costs of travel to research sites and purchase of equipment are allowed). Deadlines are March 15 and October 15.
- Federal Grants and Scholarships
- SMART Scholarships
- The APS Scholarship for Minority Undergraduate Physics Majors
- The M. Hildred Blewitt Scholarship: For women who are returning to physics careers after having had to interrupt those careers for family reasons
- The MESSENGER Scholarship
- The Marshall Scholarship (for students wanting to follow-up their undergraduate career with graduate school in Britian; note that students must apply in early September of their senior year).
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The Connect-123 Scholarship Program for International Study
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCES - The Appalachian Student Research Forum: held at the Millennium Center in Johnson City in the Spring.
- The Southeast Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
- The Annual Summer and Winter Meetings of the American Association of Physics Teachers has undergraduate research sessions, where students can present their research. See their meetings listings for locations and dates.
- Gilman Scholarships, for Study Abroad
Last updated 4/89/2013 by B. J. Smith