Gettysburg College
Physics Department

Summer Research Opportunities


See full size image Many summer research opportunities are available at a variety of institutions and organizations, and will be listed below as they are received (most listed below are for Summer '09, but this will change as the 2009-2010 academic year begins and time permits; it's still worth looking at these websites now - and don't hesitate to contact the organizations directly for information).  Any available hard copies (a lot of announcements are now only on line, so it pays to explore on your own!) will be posted on the bulletin boards in the Masters Hall Physics Student Lounge.

Our experience has been that most of the web sites for these programs are clear and complete (and many applications available for download, and to be returned, via the Web), but if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask one of your Physics Department's professors for assistance. AND check with the Gettysburg College Center for Career Development. Those folks want to help you as well, and may have knowledge of even more opportunities!

Deadlines for applications vary, so peruse these and other website information pages - and take action soon.

In alphabetical order:

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University  (look for SURP)
American Physical Society
California Institute of Technology MURF and AMGEN

Department of Energy
     Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI)

     Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (High-Energy-Density)
Duke University-Engineering World Health Summer Institute

Medical University of South Carolina (SURP)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

     Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholars
     Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP)
    
Goddard Center for Astrobiology Summer 20010 Undergraduate Internships
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
     Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program

National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates
including (but not limited, as you have no doubt already noted, to)    
    
Brigham Young University
     Case Western Reserve
     CASPER
     Cornell Center for Materials Research
     Cornell University Center for Nanoscale Systems
     CTIO (see National Optical Astronomy Observatory) - Chilean Summer!
     Drexel University (DREAM)

     Kitt Peak National Observatory
     Lehigh University
     Maria Mitchell Astronomical Observatory
     Maryland Sea Grant
     MIRTHE, (Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health and the Environment) REU 2010            
     Montana State University Condensed Matter and LASER Physics

     Montana State University Solar Physics
     National Astronomy & Ionosphere Center (Arecibo Observatory)
     National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN)
     National Optical Astronomy Observatory
    

     National Solar Observatory
     Northern Arizona University

     Northwestern University 
    
Ohio Wesleyan University
     Old Dominion (in partnership with Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)
     Pennsylvania State University
     Princeton Institute for Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM) and the
     Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM) (
click here for both)
     Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
     SETI Institute (Mountain View, CA)
     Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy (SARA)
     University of Alabama, Birmingham
     University of California, Davis
     University of Chicago Physics Department and Materials Research Center
     University of Delaware College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment

     University of Florida

     University of Hawaii
     University of Idaho
     University of Nebraska
     University of Nevada
     University of Oklahoma
     University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering

     University of Washington, Seattle

     University of Wisconsin-Madison
     Washington State University
     Wooster

National Solar Observatory
New Mexico Space Grant Consortium
(International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight - ISPCS - Summer Internships)
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
Smithsonian Institute's
Research Training Program and Astrophysical Institute
Space Telescope Science Institute Baltimore, MD
University of New Hampshire
Research & Discover Summer Internship

West Virginia University SURI
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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More information will be added to this list as it is received, so keep posted!!!

 

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