Physics scholarships and fellowships for women, covering particle physics, astrophysics, nuclear physics, condensed matter, and applied physics. Includes major national lab programs and international fellowships.
Deadline: February
Five annual scholarships of $10,000 each awarded to US citizen women pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees in optics, photoni…
View details →Association for Women in Science
Deadline: February
A $2,500 scholarship awarded annually by the Association for Women in Science to an undergraduate woman studying physics, geophysi…
View details →AWIS / Society of Physics Students
Deadline: March
$2,500 annual award for an exceptional female physics or geoscience undergraduate who excels academically and demonstrates achieve…
View details →American Association of Physics Teachers
Deadline: February
A multi-round competition selecting and training the five-member US team for the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO), progressin…
View details →The Health Physics Society awards $3,500 (plus meeting travel support) to bachelor's, master's, or doctoral students enrolled in h…
View details →Scholarships from the Institute of Physics for people beginning physics teacher training in England, funded in partnership with th…
View details →The National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Jansky Fellowship supports outstanding early-career postdoctoral researchers to pursue …
View details →51 Pegasi b Fellowship is a physics research fellowship providing funding to early-career researchers.…
View details →Graduate Fellowships for STEM Development (formerly the National Physical Science Consortium) fund graduate study across the physi…
View details →Deadline: Annual; applications open August 1 - December 1
The American Institute of Physics sponsors scientists annually to spend a year providing scientific and analytical expertise to th…
View details →The American Association of Physicists in Medicine runs a 10-week summer fellowship giving undergraduates medical physics research…
View details →The leading international physics competition for secondary school students, held annually since 1967 with national teams in theor…
View details →The UK's national physics competition series for secondary school students, running a graded sequence of rounds through the academ…
View details →A scholarship funded by Jenoptik and administered by SPIE for students on technician-track photonics and optics programmes, typica…
View details →CERN
Deadline: January
A prestigious international program at CERN in Geneva inviting undergraduate students in physics, computing, engineering, and math…
View details →American Physical Society
Deadline: February
Established in 1980, this American Physical Society scholarship supports African American, Hispanic American, and Native American …
View details →National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Deadline: February
A 10-to-12-week summer research program, running since 1959, in which undergraduates and graduating seniors conduct radio-astronom…
View details →Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Deadline: January
A 12-week paid summer internship at Fermilab for undergraduate sophomores and juniors majoring in physics, engineering (mechanical…
View details →California Institute of Technology
A ten-week summer research program inviting undergraduates in physics, astronomy, and engineering from any institution to advance …
View details →Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Deadline: February
A ten-week NSF-funded summer research program at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge, MA, pairing und…
View details →MIT Haystack Observatory
An NSF-funded summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at MIT Haystack Observatory in Westford, MA, spanning radio a…
View details →Maria Mitchell Association
An NSF-funded summer astronomy and astrophysics REU on Nantucket, MA, hosted by the Maria Mitchell Association. Six undergraduates…
View details →Deadline: March
A suite of merit- and leadership-based scholarships from the Society of Physics Students for undergraduate physics and astronomy m…
View details →Scholarships from the Optica Foundation (formerly OSA) supporting undergraduate and master's students studying optics, photonics, …
View details →University of Washington
Deadline: February
A 10-week NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates at the University of Washington in Seattle, offering hands-on research…
View details →Chicago Quantum Exchange
Deadline: February
A 10-week residential summer research fellowship run by the Chicago Quantum Exchange placing undergraduates in Quantum Information…
View details →Space Telescope Science Institute
Deadline: January
A summer program at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore that employs about a dozen undergraduates each year to work…
View details →Lunar and Planetary Institute (USRA)
Deadline: December
A ten-week summer research internship operated by the Universities Space Research Association at the Lunar and Planetary Institute…
View details →Princeton University
Deadline: January
An NSF MRSEC-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates in materials science at Princeton, where students work on a mentored re…
View details →SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
A paid summer internship at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source, where undergraduates work with staff scientists on X-ray free-elec…
View details →Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
A paid summer research internship at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory placing undergraduates on fusion-energy and plasma-sc…
View details →Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
A summer honors program at Jefferson Lab giving high-achieving high-school students hands-on experience in nuclear and accelerator…
View details →Old Dominion University / Jefferson Lab
Deadline: February 21
An NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates run jointly by Old Dominion University and Jefferson Lab, placing students on…
View details →Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A paid summer internship at LLNL's National Ignition Facility and Photon Science directorate, placing undergraduate and graduate s…
View details →University of Notre Dame
Deadline: February 16
An NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates at the University of Notre Dame placing students on physics and astronomy res…
View details →Northern Arizona University
Deadline: February 1
An NSF-funded REU at Northern Arizona University in astronomy and planetary science, giving undergraduates mentored research and a…
View details →Georgia Institute of Technology
Deadline: February 27
An NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates in the Georgia Tech School of Physics, placing students on research across co…
View details →University of Florida
Deadline: February 1
An NSF-funded astronomy Research Experience for Undergraduates at the University of Florida, with mentored research, a stipend, an…
View details →University of Wisconsin-Madison
Deadline: February 15
An NSF-funded astronomy Research Experience for Undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, offering mentored research …
View details →Ohio State University
Deadline: February 19
An NSF materials-research-center REU at Ohio State's Center for Emergent Materials, placing undergraduates on condensed-matter and…
View details →Rice University
Deadline: March 1, 2026
A ten-week NSF REU at Rice University offering undergraduates research projects in atomic physics, quantum optics, nanophotonics, …
View details →University of Arizona
Deadline: February 14, 2026
An REU hosted by the NSF Center for Quantum Networks at the University of Arizona, engaging undergraduates in quantum networking a…
View details →Louisiana State University
Deadline: February 1, 2026
An NSF REU in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University offering undergraduates mentored research in p…
View details →Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mentored research internships across technical and scientific fields (physics, computing, engineering and more) at Los Alamos Nati…
View details →University of Kentucky
A 10-week NSF-funded REU for ten students in nuclear physics, condensed matter physics, and astronomy, providing a stipend plus tr…
View details →University of California, Santa Barbara
A 9-week NSF-funded summer research program in physics and astronomy spanning astrophysics, particle physics, and condensed matter…
View details →University of Rochester
Deadline: January
A 10-week NSF-funded REU supporting ten students in supervised physics and astronomy research projects, with a stipend plus housin…
View details →University of Utah
Deadline: February 1, 2026
A 10-week REU (May 21 to August 1, 2026) spanning astronomy, astroparticle physics, biophysics, condensed matter, high energy phys…
View details →Brigham Young University
Deadline: February 7, 2026
A 10-week physics and astronomy REU (June 1 to August 7, 2026) with a $7,000 stipend plus housing and travel. NSF REU spots are re…
View details →University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Deadline: January 30, 2026
A 10-week NSF-sponsored physics REU (May 26 to July 31, 2026) covering astrophysics, AMO, biological physics, condensed matter, hi…
View details →Queensborough Community College (CUNY)
NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates at CUNY's Queensborough Community College, offering summer research in physics, …
View details →University of Colorado Boulder (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics)
NSF-funded Boulder Solar Alliance Research Experience for Undergraduates, hosted through CU Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric a…
View details →Brandeis University
NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) Research Experience for Undergraduates at Brandeis University, offer…
View details →University of Texas at Austin / McDonald Observatory
UT Austin Astronomy NSF REU Program is a physics summer research program at University of Texas at Austin / McDonald Observatory o…
View details →University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
Institute for Astronomy REU is a physics summer research program at University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy offering hands-on…
View details →Deadline: January
USA Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad (USAAAO) is a physics STEM competition open to students.…
View details →Ohio State University
Deadline: 2026-02-17
An NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at Ohio State University's NeXUS facility focused on ultrafast laser scienc…
View details →Rochester Institute of Technology
Deadline: 2026-02-27
An NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at the Rochester Institute of Technology in gravitational-wave and multimes…
View details →University of Rochester
Three NSF REU tracks (Photonics; Data Science for Music/Media/Minds; Physics & Astronomy) with stipends for visiting undergraduate…
View details →University of Toronto
16-week astronomy and astrophysics research program with the Department of Astronomy and Dunlap Institute; open to students at Can…
View details →Texas A&M University - Cyclotron Institute
An NSF-funded summer REU at the Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute in which undergraduates conduct mentored research in nuclear and par…
View details →West Virginia University
An NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates site at West Virginia University in astrophysics and plasma physics.…
View details →Washington University in St. Louis
A 10-week REU at Washington University in St. Louis applying artificial intelligence to modern physics research.…
View details →The National Quantum Computing Centre's annual hackathon for students and early-career researchers, who use quantum algorithms and…
View details →An annual international astronomy and astrophysics competition for secondary school students, with theoretical, data-analysis, and…
View details →A global team-based competition ('Physics World Cup') where high school teams research ~17 open-ended physics problems and defend …
View details →Student and graduate pathways at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, which operates the OPAL research reac…
View details →Deadline: 31 March annually
Bursaries from the Royal Astronomical Society enabling motivated undergraduates considering a research career to spend part of the…
View details →Summer school and research internship programs run by the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, for un…
View details →SPIE's main scholarship programme for students studying optics, photonics, or a related discipline, open to SPIE Student Members a…
View details →The Astrophysics Summer Program for International Research Experience, an eight-week on-site research placement at the Anton Panne…
View details →Deadline: February 1
A 10- to 11-week paid summer research assistantship at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, home of the world's largest fu…
View details →International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
An IAEA fellowship providing up to €40,000 in total support for women pursuing a master's degree in nuclear science, engineering, …
View details →Deadline: May 30
An IEEE Photonics Society scholarship recognizing graduate students conducting research in photonics, optics, and optoelectronics.…
View details →Acoustical Society of America
A $30,000 annual scholarship for a U.S. graduate student in architectural acoustics or noise control, one of several Acoustical So…
View details →AVS (the professional society for surface science, thin films, vacuum, and nanoscience) awards the Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman …
View details →Perimeter Scholars International (PSI) is a physics research fellowship providing funding to early-career researchers.…
View details →A joint venture of Macquarie University, UNSW, the University of Sydney, and UTS that builds quantum-technology pathways from unde…
View details →An American Physical Society initiative that connects students who want to pursue a physics PhD but need additional preparation wi…
View details →Krell Institute / DOE NNSA
A fully funded graduate fellowship supporting PhD students whose research addresses challenges in stewardship science, including h…
View details →A doctoral scholarship fund administered by the Institute of Physics, endowed by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, supporting full-time a…
View details →The American Physical Society (APS) offers multiple awards including the Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award. The Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowships ($50,000/year) are highly competitive and include physics. NSF GRFP funds women in physics at the graduate level. The Society of Physics Students has undergraduate scholarship programs.
Yes — DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) placements at Fermilab, SLAC, CERN-affiliated programs, and other national labs are available and competitive for women graduate students. The DOE NNSA Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship covers nuclear physics specifically.
The Brooke Owens Fellowship places women in aerospace/astrophysics internships at leading companies and institutions. NASA Internships are available at all career levels. The American Astronomical Society has fellowship and award programs for women in astronomy.