General Lab Information

College Students

OEP college students

The undergraduate and graduate internship programs provide more than 350 students and professors from universities around the country each year the opportunity for an authentic research experience. Interns will have access to the Lab’s facilities and leading scientists in their fields to take on scientific challenges and gain experience working in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.

  • Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage Quantum Computing Summer School

    The Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA) QIS 102: Applied Quantum Computing Summer School is a virtual three-week tutorial program introducing college students to the exciting world of quantum information science (QIS).

  • Community College Internship (CCI)

    Community college students are encouraged to enter technical careers by providing a 10 week internship at a Department of Energy national laboratory. 

  • Environmental Education Research Programs

    The environmental education research programs supported by Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators provide students the opportunity to perform fieldwork on Long Island rivers and within local communities to learn more about the environment.

  • Mini-Semester Program

    Undergraduate science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students are being provided an opportunity supported by the US. Department of Energy (DOE) Workforce Development for Teachers and Students (WDTS) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL),  to learn, discover and participate in science and technology exploration with experienced scientists and staff.

  • Nuclear Chemistry Summer School (NCSS)

    The Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology of the American Chemical Society provides undergraduate students an opportunity to visit and learn more about nuclear and radiochemistry in a scientific setting.

  • Science Communication Internship

    Brookhaven's science communication interns interview and write stories about researchers in wide-ranging fields, from nanoscience to nuclear physics.

  • Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI)

    Undergraduate students pursuing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers gain scientific research experience by working with scientists and conducting authentic research.

  • Supplemental Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)

    The Portal to Discovery at Brookhaven National Laboratory through the Office of Educational Programs has established an internship program to give research experience in Science, Technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

  • WDTS Brookhaven User Facility Summer School

    The Brookhaven User Facility Summer School is a four-week educational program that provides upper high school and college students with an authentic, hands-on STEM research experience that utilizes multiple state-of-the-art user facilities at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).

  • WDTS Fermilab and Brookhaven Lab Summer School Exchange Program

    A unique opportunity for college freshman to experience scientific research at two different nathional labs!  Each group of students will spend 3 weeks at both Fermilab and Brookhaven National Laboratory during the summer school.