General information pages
- Every summer, many research assistant positions and internships are available for Wooster students. Please go to Scots Career Hub “Finding Internships” web page
- AC^2: AMP/CSTEP Community Physics Category
- American Physical Society: Summer Research and Internship Opportunities
- American Physical Society and IBM: Research Internship for Undergraduate Women (not limited to US citizens)
- American Physical Society and IBM: Research Internship for Underrepresented Minority (not limited to US citizens)
- National Science Foundation: REU database (our NSF-REU is listed under “Materials Research”)
- Physics Today: Summer Research/Internship
- Society for Physics Students Summer Internship Positions
- US Department of Energy Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS)
- Space Workforce 2030 initiative (also for non-US students)
At Wooster
- Our own NSF Physics and Chemistry Research at Wooster
Ohio
- M.S. Physics graduate degree program at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio Fall 2021 with the possibility of financial support via partial tuition scholarships and paid departmental teaching support positions. This program has an excellent history of either preparing students for placement in top tier Ph.D. programs or in research positions at government and industry locations.
- Fort Wayne Metals, parent company of Wooster’s G&S Bar and Wire Engineering Internship
- Cleveland State University: Soft matter research
- University of Akron: College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering REU in Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering
- The Five Colleges of Ohio and OSU: OH5-OSU Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE Program). This program is open only to currently-enrolled students at the OH5 institutions: Denison University, Kenyon College, Oberlin College, Ohio Wesleyan University, and The College of Wooster.
National
- Caltech: Caltech’s WAVE Fellows program aims to foster diversity by increasing the participation of students historically marginalized in science and engineering Ph.D. programs
- Georgia Institute of Technology: Physics in Physics REU
- Georgia Institute of Technology: Geophysics, Weather & Climate, Space & Planetary Science, Remote Sensing Physics & Chemistry REU
- Georgia Institute of Technology: Mathematics Specializations, REU within Mathematics
- The Johns Hopkins University: Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Career Opportunities/Internships
- Mississippi State University: REU Program in Computational Methods with Applications in Materials Science
- MIT: Summer Research Program
- NASA Central: Internships
- NASA OSTEM: Summer 2022 Internship
- National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST): SURF Program
- PURSUE: US CMS Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program for women and minoritized students
- SETI Institute: REU program
- SUNY Binghamton University: NSF-REU program in Renewable Energy Generation and Storage
- University of Chicago: STAGE: (Scientists, Technologists, and Artists Generating Exploration)
- University of Colorado: NSF-REU Solar and Space Science REU summer internship
- University of Michigan: NSF-REU Program in Climate and Space Science Observation (PICASSO)
- University of Missouri: Materials Science & Engineering Undergraduate Research
- University of Notre Dame: Physics Summer Research Positions for Undergraduate Physics Majors
- University of Pittsburgh Human Engineering Research Laboratories
- University of South Florida: NSF-REU Applied Physics
- University of Southern Mississippi: School of Polymer Science and Engineering
- University of Toledo: Physics and Astronomy
- University of Washington: NSF-REU various projects
- Vanderbilt University: NSF-REU at the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
- West Virginia University: Robotics NSF REU Robotic Research in Human-Swarm Interaction
International
- Canada, Waterloo, Ontario: Summer research at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Germany: DAAD Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE)
- Netherlands: ASTRON and JIVE Summer Students Programme
For Non-US Citizens
- Internships in Astronomy
- Space Workforce 2030 initiative (also for non-US students)
- University of Waterloo: Institute for Quantum Computing
- University of Toronto: Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Control
- University of British Columbia: Quantum Pathways
- Fermilab: Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center
- Fermilab: Summer Internships in Science and Technology
- Chicago Quantum Exchange: Open Quantum Initiative Undergraduate Fellowship
- American Physical Society: APS/IBM Research Internship for Undergraduate Women and Underrepresented Minorities
- University of California, Los Angeles: Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics Research in Industrial Projects for Students