Scholarships

Jeffrey Remmel Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund:

  • Eligible: upper division math students
  • Amount: up to $2000 for a year

Errett A. Bishop Memorial Scholarship:

  • Eligible: Juniors and Seniors(preference given to seniors)
  • Amount: $3000 for a year

James R. Bunch Mathematics Scholarship

  • Eligible: Applied/Computational math Juniors or seniors

Tenie Remmel Memorial Scholarship:

  • Amount: $1000 for 1 year

Klara D. Eckart Scholarship:

  • Awarded to current promising students in the fields of computation, mathematics, and physics. This is a one-year award and the amount varies.

Gary C. Reynolds Memorial Scholarship:

  • Eligible: Math-CS juniors and seniors
  • Amount: $2000 for 1 year

Undergraduate Summer Research Award

  • For undergraduate students with majors in any of the departments of the School of Physical Sciences (Chemistry & Biochemistry, Mathematics, Physics).
  • Amount: $7500

Asian and Pacific Islander Alumni Council Student Scholarship

  • The Award recognizes first generation students who have demonstrated commitment to the advancement of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage leadership, mentorship, education and community building.
  • Amount: $1000

Goldwater Scholarship

Rueben H. Fleet Memorial Scholarship

Alice T. Schafer Prize

Hispanic Scholarship Fund

Selma and Robert Silagi Award for Undergraduate Excellence (Check with your advisor for more information)

 

Additional Resources/ Opportunities

Finance Internships:

Required/Minimum Qualifications

  • Currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or related field.
  • Must have at least one semester/year of school remaining following the completion of the internship.   

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

  • One year of classroom or work experience in financial risk analysis preferred.
  • Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.  

 

First Year University Student Internships

Required Qualifications

  • Must be first-year student with an expected graduation date between December 2026 and August 2027.
  • Must be currently enrolled in a bachelor’s degree program within the United States, Canada, or Mexico. 
  • Completed an Introduction to Computer Science course (or equivalent class) as well as one semester of calculus (or equivalent) by the start of the program.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Demonstrated interest in majoring in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering or related technical major. 

 

Security Research Engineering Internship 

Required Qualifications

  • Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field 
  • Have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship.

 

Silicon Engineering: Internship Opportunities

Required Qualifications

  • Pursuing a Undergraduate or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field 
  • Have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship.   
  • Research experience or coursework in computer architecture. 

 Preferred Qualifications

3 months - 1 year experience of a subset of classes or experience in the following areas: 

  • Digital Logic Design and Simulation 
  • Object Oriented Programming and Data Structures 
  • Embedded Systems and Firmware 
  • Knowledge of verification principles, testbenches, UVM 
  • Knowledge of C/C++ and scripting languages 
  • Experience with digital timing analysis, synthesis, place-n-route 
  • Circuit design, including VLSI design and solid-state devices  

 

Consulting Services: Internship Opportunities

Required/Minimum Qualifications

  • Currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Business, or related field 
  • Must have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship.   

 Additional or Preferred Qualifications

  • Passion for technology and customer obsessed 
  • Displays stakeholder and relationshp management across senior leaders, partners, and customers 
  • Verbal and written communication, analytical, and presentation skills 
  • Delivery Management certification (e.g. Scrum, Agile, Change Management, Project Management) 

 

Mechanical Engineering: Internship Opportunity

Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs)

  • Pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
  • Must have a minimum of one semester, quarter or term of school to complete after finishing an internship

Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

  •  Ability to conceptualize and design mechanical parts using 3D CAD Software
    • 3+ months related technical engineering experience or internship experience

 

Data Scientist: Internship Opportunity

Required Qualifications:

  • Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, Applied Sciences like Biostatistics, Physics, Chemistry, Computational Neurology and or other quant-focused field
    • Must have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship.   

 Preferred Qualifications:

  • Some Engineering experience and or project course work using large data systems on SQL, Hadoop, etc.  
  • Proficiency using one or more programming or scripting language to work with data such as: Python, Perl, or C#. 
  • Some experience and or project course work performing data analysis and applying statistics working with tools such as: Excel, R, MATLAB, AMPL, or SAS. 
  • Some experience and or project course work with product and service telemetry systems. 
  • Some A/B Testing or experimentation (this can be from conducting real life science experiments, hypothesis testing in stats etc.) Not required but ideal.  
  • Some experience or course work applying basic ML to a type of data and or used algorithms to conduct experiments on data. 

 

Electrical Engineering: Internship Opportunities

Required Qualifications:

  • Currently pursuing bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
  • Must have at least one semester/year of school remaining following the completion of the internship.  

 

Software Engineering: Intern Opportunity, CTJ

Required/Minimum Qualifications

  • Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, computer science or related field. 
  • Must have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship. 
  • One year of programming experience in an object-oriented language. 

Other Requirements Must Have: Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements required for this role.

 These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: 

  • Candidates must have a minimum Active Top Secret (TS) clearance and be willing and eligible to up-level to TS/SCI with Full Scope Poly (FSP). This role will require candidates to maintain the TS/SCI with FSP.
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

 

Business Program Management: Internship Opportunities

Required/Minimum Qualifications

  • Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field.
  • Must have at least one semester/year of school remaining following the completion of the internship.   

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

  • Formal training in project and process management, financial accounting, business strategy and/or operations. 
  • Displays stakeholder and relationship management across senior leaders, partners and customers. 
  • Ability to understand business metrics, customer and market trends.

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Western Association of Graduate Schools(WAGS)/ProQuest Awards

Linda Nobel Laureate Meetings

Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellowship

2024 Seed Funding for Mobilities to Mexico Call

Bouchet Honor Society

2023 - 2024 Student Award Opportunities

UC San Diego STARS Program

Merkin Graduate Fellows Program

CIA Internships/Programs

Cal Teach

Summer School In Logic and Formal Epistemology - Carnegie Mellon

UNICEF Internship

OIST Research Internship

Bouchet Honor Society

Merkins Graduate Fellowship

Obama Voyager Scholarship

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