Scholarships & Internships Guide

Recent Internship Sponsors

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg Campus
Harvard Smithsonian-Center for Astrophysics
National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergrads at various national universities including Drexel University, University of Houston, Baylor University, University of Toledo, Maria Mitchell Observatory, College of William and Mary
Carnegie Institute of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
Department of Health and Human Services
Space Telescope Science Institute
National Institutes of Health

(Please note there may be some redundancy between the various online resources below.)

AU Career Center (AU students only)

The Career Center offers excellent opportunities through its CareerWeb:
american.edu/careercenter/students/aucareerweb.html

SPIN (AU students only, on-campus access only)

Visit SPIN from a computer on campus:
www.infoed.org/new_spin/spinmain.asp

Choose "Advanced Search," then select (click on) "Applicant Type" and choose "Undergraduate" or "Graduate Student." Select "Keywords" and either select "Science and Technology" or specific topic. More advanced searching is possible; play around. Remember to "Clear Search" every time, or the blanks will automatically refill.

Society of Physics Students

SPS offers a variety of scholarships, internships, and award:
www.spsnational.org/programs/

You do not have to be a member of SPS for all of these, but it may help.

The Nucleus

This website is a clearing house for many of the major physics organizations:
www.compadre.org/student/

National Institute of Standards and Technology

This national laboratory is nearby. Surf their website or contact specific researchers:
www.surf.nist.gov/surf2.htm

Science.Gov

This is a clearing house for science related government internships:
www.science.gov/internships/undergrad.html

National Science Foundation

This link has scholarships and internships opportunities funding through NSF:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/education.jsp?org=NSF&fund_type=1

There may be other funding opportunities at NSF, so surf around.

Michigan State University

MSU often sponsors undergraduate research experiences through the NSF, but they also have this list of resources:
http://www.ns.msu.edu/acrc/intern_research/internship_physics.asp#national

DC NASA Space Grant Consortium

Headquartered right here at AU, the DC NASA Space Grant Consortium funds internships and summer research experiences at NASA: http://dcspacegrant.org/

Institute of Physics

This website has lots of resources.
http://www.physics.org/index.asp