# Research Opportunities for Undergraduates

**Source**: https://astronomy.fas.harvard.edu/research-opportunities-undergraduates
**Parent**: https://astronomy.fas.harvard.edu/undergraduate-program

### **Research @ the CfA**

- [CFA Research Opportunities for Undergraduates (pdf)](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1glttD5b_B-MVCcrfQaUp7K7PK9UP4ZFp-yxG1S_Oi1w/edit?tab=t.0#) - 2025-2026 list of research projects (updated August 2025)
- [Faculty Research Areas](/research)

### **Astronomy Related** **(most deadlines are between January and March)**

- [American Astronomical Society List of Internships, Summer Jobs, Fellowships, and more](https://aas.org/careers/internships-summer-jobs)
- [NASA SubLIME Lab Summer Internship](https://nasacentral.force.com/s/course-offering/a0Bt0000004lSQm/sublime-lab-internship)
- [NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates](http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.cfm?unitid=5045)
- [Simons - National Society of Black Physicists Scholars Program](https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2021/11/08/simons-nsbp-scholars-program-2021-499/)
- [LASP UC Boulder](https://lasp.colorado.edu/home/information/undergraduates/reu/) - Solar and Space Physics
- [CALTECH Wave REU Program](https://sfp.caltech.edu/programs/wavefellows/information-sessions)
- [AstroTech Summer School](https://isee-telescope-workforce.org/apply-to-astrotech/)
- [Chalmers Astrophysics and Space Science Science Summer (CASSUM) UofVa](http://cosmicorigins.space/cassum) Includes in person visit to Sweden!
- [NSF-REU Internship in Astronomy @ Maria Mitchell Observatory](https://www.mariamitchell.org/nsf-reu-internship-in-astronomy)
- [American Museum of Natural History, NY](https://www.amnh.org/research/richard-gilder-graduate-school/academics-and-research/fellowship-and-grant-opportunities/undergraduate-fellowships)
- [Space Astronomy Summer Program (SASP)](https://www.stsci.edu/opportunities/space-astronomy-summer-program)at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
- [UT Austin Astronomy NSF REU Program](https://astronomy.utexas.edu/research/ut-astronomy-reu-assure-program)

### **Harvard Programs**

- [Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships](http://uraf.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do)
- [Radcliffe Research Partnership Opportunities](http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/fellowship-program/harvard-student-research-partnerships)
- [Harvard-wide research and work study job information](http://www.seo.harvard.edu/)
- [Summer Residential Research Programs](https://uraf.harvard.edu/summer-residential-research-programs) (PCER, PRISE, and SPUDS programs)
- [Origins of Life Undergraduate Program](https://origins.harvard.edu/pages/undergraduate) [Summer 2022 Description (pdf)](/file_url/1473) Deadline March 11, 2022
- [Yun Family Research Fellows Fund for Revolutionary Thinking](https://carat.fas.harvard.edu/) \*NEW\*

### **Programs for External Undergraduates**

[SAO REU Summer Intern Program](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/opportunities/graduate-undergraduate-programs/reu-summer-intern-program) @ the CFA

## Undergraduate Links

- [Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships](http://uraf.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do)
- [STAHR](https://sites.harvard.edu/stahr/), Student Astronomers at Harvard-Radcliffe
- [Harvard College Handbook](http://handbook.fas.harvard.edu/book/welcome), FAS summary of important deadlines in the undergraduate year
- [Astrobites](https://astrobites.org/), Astrobites is a daily literature journal summarizing new astrophysical research posted to [astroph](http:/arxiv.org/archive/astro-ph). Astrobites is written by graduate students for undergraduates.
- [Math Department Course Offerings](http://math.harvard.edu/~jjchen/Math_Courses_2019-2020.pdf.)
- [Academic Resource Center](https://academicresourcecenter.harvard.edu/home), the ARC supports Harvard’s students in developing reading strategies, time management skills, and metacognitive approaches to learning
- [Harvard Science Education Office](https://lifesciences.fas.harvard.edu)
- [AstroSoc](https://www.facebook.com/harvardastrosoc/) - undergraduate concentrators club (email list: <https://groups.google.com/g/harvard-astrosoc/about>)
- [Astro email list](https://lists.hcs.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/astro) - includes emails about the concentration, research opportunities, department events and activities
- [Harvard Observing Project (HOP)](http://astrolab.fas.harvard.edu/hop.html)