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US CMS Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program

Application process for 2025 internship is now closed

The US CMS Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program is a 10-week paid internship program, which offers undergraduate students an opportunity to perform a project under the mentorship of scientists working at the frontier of Physics at one of the 50+ institutions in the US.

The internship program is open to students pursuing physics, engineering, computer science, math, chemistry, or related majors.

The research internships will be structured to encourage students to persist in a STEM major through college and to train them in skills needed for a future career in the STEM workforce, in order to sustain a talent pool in research and innovation.

This immersive research internship opportunity will cover areas in instrumentation, technology, and computing projects. Students will use computational tools and data-science methods to learn about fundamental particles and their interactions, by analyzing data obtained from the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located at CERN, Switzerland. The pool of mentors are physicists from US institutes affiliated with the CMS experiment at the LHC and at the rank of university faculty, Tougaloo College, scientists from national labs, postdoctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students.

Questions about the US CMS internship program can be directed to uscms-pursue-commitee@fnal.gov.

Code of conduct

We adhere to both the USCMS Code of Conduct and the Fermilab Access and Codes of Conduct.

Intern Expectations

• Report for work for the hours agreed upon with your supervisor; interns work 40 hours a week

• Accurately track hours worked

• Inform your supervisor promptly if an absence from work is unavoidable; maintain consistent communication regarding your status and expected return

• Contact your mentor to report any situation that prevents you from completing your work

• Perform duties as assigned by your mentor

• Conduct yourself in a responsible and professional manner

• Respond promptly when contacted by your mentor, program leaders

• Meet weekly with program mentors

• Attend the all Lectures that are part of the program and in addition any lecture as part Fermilab summer lecture series (when possible and indicated in the agenda)

• Attend laboratory tours organized for interns

• Complete written and oral program deliverables