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  • Information on the over 250 sites which participated last summer in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program (REU) is available in both Text and HTML formats. It contains the email addresses of contacts at, and web links for, the host sites and NSF. Each year there are about 45 Physics, 15 Astronomical Sciences, and
  • 15 Materials Research host sites, each with 10 or more undergraduate students. Many of the sites from last year will participate this year.
  • The list also contains contacts information for (non REU) NSF facilities which accept undergraduates each summer to join research projects. See below under non-REU oportunities.
    REU sites are also listed in
    • Atmospheric Sciences
    • Biological Sciences
    • Chemistry
    • Computer and Information Science and Engineering
    • Earth Sciences
    • Engineering
    • Mathematical Sciences
    • Ocean Sciences and
    • Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science.

  • Here are non-REU opportunities at a variety of universities
  • NSF Materials Research Science And Engineering Centers
  • University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa (Magnetic materials)
  • Arizona State University (New phases of materials; glasses;
  • semiconductor surfaces)
  • Carnegie Mellon University (Mems; Mesoscale Interface Mapping Project; polycrystalline materials)
  • Columbia University (Thin films containing nanoparticles, mixed organic/inorganic structures)
  • Stanford University in conjuction with IBM-Almaden and University of California - Davis (Center for Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies
  • University of California - Santa Barbara (Interfaces of soft materials; complex materials)
  • University of Colorado (Liquid crystals, optical materials and devices
  • Northwestern University (Ultrahard coatings; novel semicondustors; electroceramic films; polymers; molecular materials)
  • University of Chicago (Mesoscopic self-assembly; quantum phase transitions; macroscopic dynamics; bio-interfaces)
  • Harvard University (New materials; design and manufacturing; electronic nanostructures)
  • University of Kentucky (Advanced carbon materials) [no url]
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Microphotonic materials; nanostructured polymers; oxide interfaces; transition metal oxides)
  • University of Massachusetts-Amherst (Polymer science; bimolecular materials)
  • Johns Hopkins University (Nanostructured Materials; granular materials; magnetic and superconducting materials)
  • University of Maryland-College Park (Center on Oxide Thin Films, Probes and Surfaces: fundamentals, applications)
  • Michigan State University (The Center for Sensor Materials)
  • University of Minnesota (Macromolecular materials; articial tissue)
  • Princeton University (The Center for Complex Materials)
  • Cornell University (Organic-inorganic nanocomposites; polymers; thin films; energetic beam deposition; metallic nanostructures)
  • State University of New York - Stony Brook (Center on Materials, Processes, and Functional Surfaces by Thermal Spray)
  • State University of New York - Stony Brook in conjunction with Polytechnic University and City University of New York (Center for Polymers at Engineered Interfaces)
  • University of Pennsylvania (Active polymers; biomolecular materials; liquid crystals and colloids)
  • Brown University (Micromechanics of materials; fracture and deformation)
  • University of Houston (Center on Advanced Oxides and Related Materials: catalytic materials; fuel cells; membrane reactors)
  • University of Wisconsin - Madison (Center on Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces: film growth; superconductors; magnetic oxides)

  • The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has a page dedicated to Undergraduate Internships (as well as Jobs Listings for undergraduates).

  • The Summer Jobs Database is provided by the American Physical Society (APS), a member society of the American Insititue of Physics, and is primarily designed to collect and provide information on summer research opportunities for undergraduates in physics and physics-related fields.

    The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has a page dedicated to summer employment opportunities for undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs.

    The Department of Energy's (DOE) has internships at a variety of DOE facilities.

  • Some of these laboratories have additional undergraduate programs separate from the DOE internships.

  • The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a number of Student Support Programs.

  • The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), previously called the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), has three 12 week Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) programs in their

  • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) has Summer Interniships for Physics Majors

  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has several programs which take place at various times of the year

  • The Arecibo Observatory hosts a Summer Student Program. This program can be funded as an REU (see above).

  • The following employers, most of which are AIP Corporate Associates, have internships and coops.

    Other sources

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    Please send comments and suggestions to:

    Jack Alvarenga or Jordan Blevins
    Department of Physics
    Rochester Institute of Technology