Emerging Leaders
Osterbrock Leadership Program (OLP)
- This program aims to provide leadership opportunities to graduate students at the University of California – Santa Cruz. The Osterbrock Leadership Program (OLP) provides unique training opportunities to the UCSC Astronomy graduate community through a variety of educational activities, mentorships, and leadership experiences conceived and executed by the students themselves.
- Current graduate students who are interested should reach out to Sandy Faber at faber@ucolick.org. For more information please visit this page.
Lamat
- The Lamat REU program aims to increase retention, graduation rates, and PhD admission for students enrolled in two-year or four-year colleges. Key components of the LAMAT Institute include intensive research instruction through summer internships, a winter computational boot camp, academic counseling and mentoring, and astronomy science workshops.
- The deadline for applications is normally in December.
- If you are interested in being a mentor for the summer REU program, please contact Deana Tanguay (dtanguay@ucsc.edu).
- For more information, please visit this website.
Science Internship Program (SIP)
- The Science Internship Program (SIP) offers high school students the opportunity to spend their summer working on authentic open-ended research projects in science, engineering, social sciences, humanities, and art under the mentorship of UCSC researchers. The lead mentor for the science-based research projects is Professor Raja Guhathakurta. Interns will work with faculty, post-doc, and graduate student mentors on a range of topics with the goal of presenting their work at an internal symposium at the end of the internship.
- Intern applications open in February while mentor applications open in January.
- If you are interested in applying as an intern, visit this page.
- If you are interested in being a mentor please visit this page.