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: 12/31/2025 Job Duties:65% Building prototype electrical components and making electrical measurements of devices25% Maintaining detailed records of laboratory results. 10% Participating in weekly laboratory […]
- Employer: UCSC Physical & Biological Sciences Expires: 01/02/2026 Under moderate supervision, the incumbent will be a laboratory assistant who aids in research on paleoecology, paleoclimatology, and the ecology of modern […]
- Employer: UCSC Politics/Legal Studies Expires: 12/30/2025 Air Quality & Pesticides or Water & Mental Health (TBD)25% – Attend promotora training sessions 25% – Practice delivering trainings in Spanish for other promotoras 20% […]
- Employer: UCSC Humanities Division – Humanities Student Achievement Expires: 07/21/2025 Call for Applications: Humanities EXCEL Fellowship with The Sikh Foundation – 2025-2026We encourage work-study and non-work-study students to apply. This […]
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