Resources for independent research, internships, and careers

UW-Madison undergraduate research awards

Board of Visitors Fund for Undergraduate Research: In 2013, the Physics Department's Board of Visitors has graciously established a new fund to support physics undergraduate research. Questions about the fund may be addressed to Professor Carlsmith.

Venturewell sponsors undergraduate R&D in Garage Physics. Contact Professor Carlsmith for further information.

The Department of Physics maintains a list of opportunities at http://www.physics.wisc.edu/academics/undergrads/news.

Application forms are available at the websites listed below. Questions may be directed to Julie Stubbs, Director of the Undergraduate Academic Awards Office (1107 Nancy Nicholas Hall, 265-2428, awards@provost.wisc.edu).

SOPHOMORE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS ***New this year***

Funded by a one-year University of Wisconsin System Undergraduate Research & Discovery Grant, the Sophomore Research Fellowships support undergraduate research done in collaboration with UW–Madison faculty or research/instructional academic staff. Approximately 15 awards are available. The student researcher receives $2,500, and the faculty/staff research advisor receives $500 to help offset research costs (e.g., supplies, faculty or student travel related to the project). The application deadline is March 9, 2015. Directions for accessing the on-line application, instructions and FAQs can be found at the UAA website. http://awards.advising.wisc.edu/sophomore-research-fellowship/ .

HILLDALE UNDERGRADUATE/FACULTY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND HOLSTROM ENVIRONMENTAL SCHOLARSHIPS provide support for collaborative research between undergraduate students and faculty or research/instructional academic staff members. Each provides a grant of $3,000 to the student and $500 to the faculty/staff mentor (up to $1,000 under exceptional circumstances) to help offset research costs. Students must have at least junior standing at the time of application. The Holstrom Scholarships require an environmental focus. We’re pleased to announce this year the McPherson Eye Research Institute will sponsor one additional Hilldale Fellowship for vision based research (including bioengineering, imaging, data visualization, ophthalmology and general biology of the eye). The application deadline is February 17, 2014. Directions for accessing the on-line application, instructions and FAQs can be found at the UAA website. < http://www.provost.wisc.edu/hilldale.htm>

WISCONSIN IDEA UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS are awarded to undergraduate students to develop and implement community-based research or service-learning projects that will meet a community identified need (local, national or international) under the supervision of a UW-Madison faculty or instructional academic staff member. Fellowships provide three (3) academic credits, a stipend of up to $3000 to a student ($5000 for a group of up to five students) and up to $2000 to help offset project related costs. The application deadline for 2014-15 fellowships is February 14, 2014. The on-line application, instructions and FAQs can be found on the Morgridge Center for Public Service website. < http://morgridge.wisc.edu/programs/wif/ >

UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARDS provide $1,000 to undergraduate students who have distinguished themselves by completing outstanding projects, such as a senior thesis, at UW-Madison. Students must be enrolled in a degree program during the 2013-14 academic year (December 2013 graduates may apply). Applications are due March 24, 2014. Directions for accessing the on-line application can be found at the UAA website. < http://www.provost.wisc.edu/university-bookstore.htm>

WID Frontier Fellows program for undergraduates http://wid.wisc.edu/fellows/frontier-fellows/

Undergraduate Research Award--for general research projects. If Garage Physics members ever decide to take on a bigger project, this is a great place to get the funds for it. Deadline Nov 15 UW Undergraduate Research Program: http://www.lssaa.wisc.edu/urs/research/index.html

UW Letter and Science Honors Program: http://www.honors.ls.wisc.edu/SiteContent.aspx?prev=1&id=46

UW Undergraduate Symposium: http://www.learning.wisc.edu/ugsymposium/

Wisconsin Idea Fellowships http://www.morgridge.wisc.edu/students-wisconsin-idea-fellowships.htm

Other undergraduate research awards

The "Future Faces of Physics" Award--Outreach to underrepresented students in physics. Can the physics club and garage physics partner up to do a project to reach out to students in rural WI and show them the awesomeness of physics? Or to minority students in Milwaukee? Or young women in the Madison area? You get the idea. Deadline Oct 15 http://www.spsnational.org/programs/awards/futurefaces.htm

Society of Physics Students Marsh White Awards--Outreach to the general public like the WI Science Festival would qualify for this award. Deadline Nov 15 http://www.spsnational.org/programs/awards/white.htm

Wisconsin Space Grant: http://www.uwgb.edu/wsgc/

Student Awards Program in Fuel Cycle Research: http://www.fuelcycleinnovations.org/

APS DNP Conference Experience for Undergraduates http://physics.westmont.edu/ceu

DAAD RISE-Research Internships in Science and Engineering: http://www.daad.de/rise/en/

Optical Society of America student grants and fellowship http://www.osa.org/en-us/membership/student_services/awards_grants_fellowships/

UW Grants http://grants.library.wisc.edu/index.html

Student Research on Campus Sustainability Award http://www.aashe.org/about/aashe-awards/student-research

AAPT award for development of an advanced educational laboratory http://www.aapt.org/Programs/grants/aapt_alpha_award.cfm

AAPT $25k Venture Fund for development of a product related to education in physics http://www.aapt.org/Programs/grants/venturefund.cfm

Funding for graduate student projects

WARF Discovery Challenge: http://www.warf.org/about/index.jsp?cid=61&scid=129

WID Emerging Interfaces Award: http://wid.wisc.edu/programs/emerging-interfaces-award/application/

National Academies http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/rap/

Semiconductor Research Corporation http://www.src.org/student-center/

Internships

NSF https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/

DOE http://science.energy.gov/wdts/suli/

NASA https://intern.nasa.gov/

APL http://www.jhuapl.edu/employment/summer/

http://www.jhuapl.edu/education/diversity/gem.asp

DOE/INFN Summer Exchange Program: http://www.infn.it/summer_student/

UW REU Program: http://www.astro.wisc.edu/undergrads/uw-madison-reu-program/

Harvard WYSS. Wyss-funded summer research positions for undergraduates from any university to work at the Wyss will be advertised through the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science's REU program. http://wyss.harvard.edu/

Biomedical Engineering Society: http://bmes.org/about

Shine Medical Technologies (2013 Startup in Monona): http://careers.shinemed.com/job-type/internship/

Atom Probe (Madison, microscopes) http://www.atomprobe.com/ Thomas F. Kelly, Ph.D. Division Vice President of AMETEK, Inc., CAMECA Instruments, Inc. 5500 Nobel Drive, Suite 100, thomas.kelly@ametek.com Madison, WI 53711-4951 www.cameca.com Direct Phone: +1.608.229.1954 Main Phone: +1.608.274.6880 or toll free +1.877.464.6246 Fax: +1.608.442.0622 Mobile: +1.608.239.8470

Academic credit for internships, Internship in the Liberal Arts & Sciences http://interlsinternship.pbworks.com/w/page/20058673/INTER-LS%20260, http://careers.ls.wisc.edu/academic-credit-and-more--students.htm

Federal Pathways program internships https://www.usajobs.gov/StudentsAndGrads

Bioprocess Engineering for Sustainability http://ww2.bse.vt.edu/reu/

Internships in Medical Physics http://www.aapm.org/search/search.asp?page=1&keyword=internship&submit=Go

Public Forum Institute - policy internship in Washington http://publicforuminstitute.org/about/internships/

NREIP intern program http://www.asee.org/fellowship-programs/undergraduate

Long list of national internships http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/research/summer-research.htm

SRI International http://www.sri.com/careers/students-faculty-and-fellows

150 or so REU websites at COMPADRE http://www.compadre.org/student/research/browse.cfm?SortBy=DeadlineOrder&Archive=1

Delphi Corporation summer internships http://delphigraduates.com/programs/

Intel internships and jobs http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/jobs/locations/united-states/students/future-engineers.html

Shell Assessed Internships http://www.shell.com/global/aboutshell/careers/students-and-graduates/shell-graduate-programme/internship.html

Office of Science and Technology Policy summer internships (upaid, Washington DC) http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/about/student

International Internships

UW Programs list http://www.studyabroad.wisc.edu/programs/program.asp?program_id=343

Scholarships

APS Society of Physics Students list http://www.compadre.org/student/scholarships/browse.cfm

APS list http://www.aps.org/programs/education/undergrad/students/scholarships.cfm

Horizon http://wid.ndia.org/horizon/Pages/default.aspx

Anita Borg Institute for women in computing http://anitaborg.org/awards-grants/ghc-scholarship-grants/

American Society for Engineering Education SMART scholarship, and NASA Aeronautic Scholarship http://www.asee.org/fellowship-programs/undergraduate

Professional Organizations

American Physical Society http://www.aps.org/

American Institute of Physics http://www.aip.org/

Society of Physics Students http://www.spsnational.org/

National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance | NCIIA http://nciia.org/students/

Institute of Physics http://www.iop.org/

Optical Society of American http://www.osa.org

SPIE Student Chapter UW-Madison http://spie.microscopy.wisc.edu/about

American Society for Engineering Education http://www.asee.org/fellowship-programs/undergraduate

List of professional societies with ABET accreditation http://www.abet.org/member-society-list/

Faculty development

UW Baldwin Awards: http://www.provost.wisc.edu/baldwin.htm

KERN Foundation http://www.keennetwork.org/

Venturewell http://www.venturewell.org/

About crowd funding

Crowdfunding: More than money, a powerful new way of jumpstarting entrepreneurship education https://www.academia.edu/6440817/CROWDFUNDING_MORE_THAN_MONEY_JUMPSTARTING_UNIVERSITY_ENTREPRENEURSHIP

“March 3 2014, Kickstarter pass $1B in pledges."

(http://www.slideshare.net/CogswellCollege/cogswell-college-handson-crowdfunding-workshop-march-29)

Crowd source sites

Experiment https://experiment.com/discover

Kickstarter: http://kickstarter.com

Eureka Fund http://eurekafund.org/projects/category

Petridish http://www.petridish.org/

FundAGeek http://www.fundageek.com

21 Examples of Crowdsourced fundraising platforms http://www.alumnifutures.com/2012/07/crowdsourced.html

Crowd funding for universities http://www.launcht.com/blog/2012/12/18/state-of-crowdfunding-in-higher-education/

Tomorrow’s coolest products from today’s best Makers. http://www.dragoninnovation.com/

Fundly http://fundly.com/fundraising-ideas

Other sources

Do Something! http://www.dosomething.org/about/who-we-are

National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance http://nciia.org/grants

The Awesome Fuundation http://www.awesomefoundation.org/en

EU

Looking for project ideas? Try http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/home_en.html

Careers

UW-Madison advice http://continuingstudies.wisc.edu/advising/planning.htm, http://careers.ls.wisc.edu/, http://www.ccas.wisc.edu/explorationcenter/, http://uwhelp.wisconsin.edu/careers/madison.aspx

AAPT careers information http://jobs.aapt.org/

Career cornerstone - careers in physics http://www.careercornerstone.org/physics/physics.htm

The challenge of industrial physics (Physics today) http://scitation.aip.org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/PT.5.2017?utm_medium=email&utm_source=American+Institute+of+Physics&utm_campaign=4580371_+Physics+Today%3a+The+week+in+Physics+11-15+August+&dm_i=1Y69,2Q68J,E1N5G9,9XSG6,1

Help http://www.careerperfect.com/, http://jobstar.org/

Vault.com http://jobs.vault.com/JobSeeker/JobList.aspx

Wetfeet guides (Explore top companies for science) http://wetfeet.com

A commercial career matching service http://www.sigi3.org

Jobs listing sites: Careershift, CareerSearch, Indeed, SimplyHired