Funding Opportunities for Undergraduates

Notice: This page will be regularly updated with further opportunities as we expand, so please keep tabs and check back often

There are lots of opportunities to gain research experience, whether or not your college or university focuses heavily on research in respective departments. These summer research experiences for undergrads (REUS) will pay YOU to come perform research for 8-10 weeks, pay for travel and lodging and dependent on the location offer assistance or pay-full for future presentations at major conferences like the American Astronomical Society Conference (AAS). We have compiled a list of resources on opportunities such as these. Please check them out!

Funded Summer Research for Undergrads:

• List of summer Astronomical Sites research locations from the National Research Foundation

• List of summer research opportunities for Planetary Sciences from the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society

• List of summer Engineering Sites research locations from the National Research Foundation (*includes Aerospace Engineering)

Fellowships & Programs for Undergrads :

Summer programs that are not part of the NSF REU program; these programs are open to non-US citizens (most commonly international students studying at a US university) unless otherwise indicated. *indicates programs targeting students from historically marginalized background

List from the AAS site:

• Berkeley SETI Research Center Summer Research Undergraduate Internships

• Boulder Solar Alliance REU Program in Solar and Space Physics

• Bryce Canyon Astronomy Outreach Internship

• Caltech LIGO SURF Program

• CRESST Summer Internship Program

• Dorrit Hoffleit Undergraduate Research Scholarship

• LEAPS-The Leiden/ESA Astrophysics Program for Summer Students (Netherlands)

• Las Cumbres Observatory Internships

• Lee Teng Undergraduate Internship (Argonne National Lab and Fermilab)

• Los Alamos National Laboratory Undergraduate Summer Internship Program

• LPI Summer Intern Program in Planetary Science

• *National Astronomy Consortium (NAC)

• Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy (ASTRON) and the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)'s Summer Research Program

• National Radio Astronomy Observatory Summer Program

• RISE Internships (Germany)

• Science and Engineering Student Internship (SESI) program in heliophysics, astrophysics, and planetary science – Summer Research Opportunity for Undergraduates at NASA's GSFC

• *Summer Internships in Science and Technology (SIST, Fermilab)

• Space Telescope Science Institute Summer Student Program

• Summer Student Opportunities through the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) - most labs only accept US citizens

• Ball Aerospace College Internships

• Internships at Northrop Grumman

• Internships at Boeing

• Brooke Owens Fellowship (Paid internships and executive mentorship for exceptional undergraduate women and gender-minority students in aerospace)

• Patti Grace Smith Fellowship (Jobs, mentorship, and community for Black undergrads seeking aerospace careers)

• Zed Factor Fellowship (Mentorship, internship, service projects for underrepresented communities)

• Ball Aerospace College Internships

• Internships at Northrop Grumman

• Internships at Boeing

• Brooke Owens Fellowship (Paid internships and executive mentorship for exceptional undergraduate women and gender-minority students in aerospace)

• Patti Grace Smith Fellowship (Jobs, mentorship, and community for black undergrads seeking aerospace careers)

• Zed Factor Fellowship (Mentorship, internship, service projects for underrepresented communities)

• AAAS Mass Media Fellowship: A 10-week summer program for undergraduate and graduate students.