Undergraduate Research Internships
Discover research opportunities on Handshake, Career Success’ online portal for UC Santa Cruz students. With thousands of job and internship postings—including many focused on research—academic departments, labs, and local, state, and national companies regularly share paid and unpaid positions.
View current research job and internship postings in Handshake:
- Employer: UCSC Physical & Biological Sciences Expires: 06/25/2025 The student researcher will make mock images of galaxies from the NewHorizon and Charlotte’sWebb simulations to compare with James Webb Space Telescope […]
- Employer: UCSC Physical & Biological Sciences Expires: 06/15/2025 Responsibilities will include: writing electrical specifications for the ATLAS pixel module and services teststands, designing circuits in the pixel module and services […]
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