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: 10/11/2025 UCSC's Astrobiology Initiative houses an interdisciplinary team of students, researchers, and faculty united by a desire to explore the origins, evolution, and […]
- Employer: UCSC Education Department Expires: 10/01/2025 Research Assistant for project investigating education for multilingual learners in US K-12 schools and community colleges.Library and Internet research: 20%Data collection and organization: 20%Transcribing […]
- Employer: UCSC Baskin Engineering Expires: 11/10/2025 Originally founded in 1997, Baskin Engineering is the first professional school at UC Santa Cruz. Over the past 25 years, Baskin Engineering has become a […]
- Employer: UCSC Humanities Division – Humanities Student Achievement Expires: 10/20/2025 Call for Applications: Humanities EXPLORE Research Fellowship with Professor Sean Keilen–2025-2026Shakespeare Workshop (Literature / THI)We encourage work-study and non-work-study students to […]
- Employer: UCSC Humanities Division – Humanities Student Achievement Expires: 10/20/2025 Call for Applications: Humanities EXPLORE Undergraduate Research Fellowship with Literature Professor Sean Keilen, 2024-2025Shakespeare in Santa Cruz: A Performance History […]
- Employer: UCSC Humanities Division – Humanities Student Achievement Expires: 10/20/2025 Call for Applications: Humanities EXPLORE Research Fellowship with Professor Ariel Chan–2025-2026 Bilingual Minds in Motion: Code-Switching, Culture, and Cognition (LAAL)We encourage work-study […]
- Employer: UCSC Physical & Biological Sciences Expires: 09/29/2025 The Global Change Research Group, located in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is hiring a research assistant to support our […]
- Employer: UCSC Humanities Division Expires: 11/30/2025 The Bilingualism, Sociolinguistics & Cognition (BISON) Lab, directed by Dr. Ariel Chan in the Languages & Applied Linguistics Department, seeks a part-time Lab Manager […]
- Employer: UCSC Physical & Biological Sciences Expires: 03/03/2026 The Polito lab is seeking an organized and dependable student employee for Fall 2025 wiht the potential to extend into the winter and […]
- Employer: UCSC Physical & Biological Sciences Expires: 02/26/2026 The student will support research personnel in the laboratory. Duties include general laboratory upkeep including basic maintenance and testing of equipment, reagent […]
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