Learn Scientific Computing and Research Skills

• Crash Course
• The Columbia Linux Environment or Cunix
• Python
• IRAF

How to Get Involved

• Talk to Faculty
• Apply For Fellowships
  • Rabi Scholarship
  • McNair Fellowship
  • Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Science-Leadership Alliance Summer Research Program (GSAS SRP)
  • MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP)
  • NASA Motivating Undergraduates in Science and Technology (MUST)
• Join Some Scientific Societies
  • AIP Societies
• Summer Research
  • Fund it: The Summer Interns Living and Learning Program (SILLP), the Alumni Parent Internship Fund (APIF) and the Work Exemption Program (WEP).
• Read Journal Articles
  • Astrobites - Each day, Astrobites, written by graduate students at Harvard and Michigan, distills  one interesting astro-ph paper into a brief format at a level accessible to undergraduate students in the physical sciences.
  • SAO/NASA ADS - The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant
  • arXiv astro-ph - is an archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of astronomy and physics.