Research Experience for Undergraduates Contact Info
Many Observatories and University Astronomy (and physics, although those
aren't listed here) Departments offer REU programs. These programs give
undergraduates a chance to work as a research assistant to a scientist for a
summer. They usually pay a decent amount for a summer job (on the order of
$1200 or so a month), but the benefit is that you get quality research
experience prior to graduate school. If you intend on pursuing graduate
studies in astronomy, spending a summer as an REU student is good preparation
for the type of work that will be expected of you as a graduate student.
I've collected the email addresses for the 1997 REU programs I'm aware of around
the country. These are the contact addresses for the person in charge of
distributing REU applications and literature. Deadlines are usually late
January/early February for summer positions. If you know of any more REU
programs that I haven't listed, please
email me with the contact information.
- Cerro-Tololo InterAmerican Obs. ---------------- efriel@noao.edu
- National Optical Astronomy Obs. ---------------- estok@noao.edu
- National Radio Astronomy Obs. ----------------- rbrown@nrao.edu
- National Astronomy & Ionosphere Center --------- morrison@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu
- Space Telescope Science Institute ---------------- soderblom@stsci.edu
- Maria Mitchell Observatory -------------------- efriel@mmo.org
- High Altitude Observatory --------------------- cmw@ucar.edu
- Wyoming Infrared Observatory ----------------- agannon@uwyo.edu
- MIT Haystack Observatory -------------------- lhp@newton.haystack.edu
- California Center for Particle Astrophysics --------- cfpaedu@physics.berkeley.edu
- Harvard University Center for Astrophysics -------- intern@cfa.harvard.edu
- SARA ------------------------------------ oswalt@tycho.pss.fit.edu
- Penn State University ------------------------ reu-info@astro.psu.edu
- Cornell University -------------------------- chamberl@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu
- Northern Arizona University ------------------ kathy.eastwood@nau.edu
- University of Alabama ----------------------- summerprog@hera.astr.ua.edu
- University of Toledo ------------------------- reu@physics.utoledo.edu
Good Luck!