There are many paid internship opportunities that enable undergraduate students to engage in research.
General
- NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) and Earle Nestmann Undergraduate Research Award (ENURA). Each year the Faculty of Science and the Department of Physics & Astronomy will create links with information on applying to these programs. Check in December or January for updated info!
- Research At York (RAY)
- Research at York for credit
PHYS 4310 3.0 and BPHS 4310 3.0 offer the means to engage in research for a semester, but with “payment” taking the form of university credits. Details can be found in the Undergraduate Handbooks (at the link) or by contacting the departmental office. - Society of Physics Students Summer Internship Program
(mostly outreach) - Physics for U.S. citizens
(mostly) - Richard E. Azuma Undergraduate Summer Fellowship
Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics
Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP), run jointly with the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics (University of Toronto) and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA). - Astronomy for U.S. citizens
(mostly)
Application deadlines: various. - Center for Astrophysics (Harvard)
- Laser Interferometry Gravitational Observatory (LIGO)
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF). - National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
Biological Physics
- TRIUMF
They also have an Awards, Fellowships, and Exchanges program. There are opportunities in High Energy and Particle Physics here as well.
High Energy and Particle Physics
- Canadian Institute of Particle Physics (IPP)
Summer Student Program: Undergraduate Research Experience at CERN and in Canada. - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI)
There are opportunities in Astrophysics here as well. - Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNOLab)
- TRIUMF
- They also have an Awards, Fellowships, and Exchanges program. There are opportunities in Biological Physics here as well.
- US National Laboratories