Here is a list of summer undergrad/first year grad astronomy internships I'd suggest. I've included a few contacts. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Catholic U of America (a second way to work at GSFC) - contact Dr. Fred Bruhweiler at CUA Physics NASA Ames NASA Johnson Jet Propulsion Lab Lunar & Planetary Laboratory National Optical Astronomy Observatories (both Kitt Peak and Cerro Tololo) www.noao.edu Gemini Observatory www.gemini.edu National Solar Observatory www.nso.edu Space Telescope Science Institute www.stsci.edu Arecibo Radio Observatory (Puerto Rico) National Radio Astronomy Observatory (3 sites: Charlottesville VA, Green Bank WV, Socorro NM) Center for Astrophysics (based at Harvard) Naval Research Lab (Washington DC) McDonald Observatory (Texas) http://www.as.utexas.edu/reu/ Maria Mitchell Observatory (Nantucket) Lowell Observatory www.lowell.edu worth trying: Fermilab Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (Colorado) Southwest Research Institute any university with a big astronomy department/program, including but not limited to Wyoming Infrared Observatory Cornell (runs Arecibo) *Univ. Toledo *Univ. California at San Diego (UCSD) *Univ. Wisconsin etc. * had UL summer student: 2006 Chip Davis, Univ. Toledo 2006 Wes Miller, UCSD 2007 Blakesley Burkhart, Univ. Wisconsin