Jobs and Careers:
- American Institute of Physics Career Resources
- American Physical Society Career Guide
- Physics.org Career Guide
Summer Research Opportunities:
- List of NSF Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
- Other summer research programs in Astronomy
- NASA internships (includes projects from a wide range in STEM)
- Note: Maine Space Grant has special funding for NASA internships and requires a Letter of Intent before submission of the NASA application: See information here
- Summer programs open to international students
Information on Graduate School:
- Searchable guide to physics and related graduate schools
- Physics GRE exam requirements of U.S. graduate programs in physics and astronomy
Physics and Science News:
- Physics Today
- Physics Central
- Physical Review Focus
- Science News Online
- Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
Physics Organizations:
- American Institute of Physics
- American Astronomical Society
- Institute of Physics (U.K.)
- International Astronomical Union
- European Physical Society
- Diversity in Physics
- National Society of Black Physicists
- National Society of Hispanics Physicists
- The Association for Women in Science
- APS Women in Physics Programs
Research Facilities:
- Hubble Space Telescope Photos
- Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS)
- Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN
- Fermilab’s Home Page
- Frontiers in Optical Coherent and Ultrafast Science (FOCUS) Physics Frontier Center
- University of Maryland Joint Quantum Institute (JQI)
- Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Physics Resources and Physical Reference Data:
- Colby College Library’s Physics Resource Page
- NIST Fundamental Physical Constants Page
- NIST Atomic Spectra Database
Writing Resources:
- AIP Style Guide, 4th Edition
- Physical Review Style and Notation Guide
- William Strunk’s original The Elements of Style
Safety