Undergraduate Research
Local Research Opportunities
There are often opportunities for undergraduates to participate in research with local faculty. You are encouraged to contact faculty directly about available research projects.
URECA
The Undergraduate Research and Creative Activites (URECA)
program
offers financial
support for summer research done at Stony Brook.
External Research Opportunities
There are a number of programs available for undergraduates interested in doing summer research in astronomy. Here we provide links to the application pages for these programs as they become available.
- NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) provides
various astronomy programs across the country with
funding to provide paid summer research internships
for undergraduates. This is a great opportunity to
spend your summer in another part of the country
performing astronomy research. Note that the
deadlines for applications are in Dec/Jan for the
following summer.
You may also want to look over the list of Physics REU sites - DOE Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI)
- Summer internships at DOE National Laboratories
- Caltech Summer Undergrauate Research Fellowships
- Summer research opportunities at Caltech and JPL. See also their WAVE Fellows Program for opportunities for underrepresented minorities.
- Space Astronomy Summer Program
- Summer research opportunities at the Space Telescope Science Institute