Internships and Fellowships

Internships and fellowships allow you to explore a career and gain valuable experience while building your professional network. Internships are usually shorter-term and offer hands-on experiences in key areas of policymaking. They may be paid or unpaid, and while many are in the summer, others may be offered year-round.

Some of the most well known science and technology policy internships are the Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship and the Tisdale Fellowship. Fellowships are generally academic positions that last a year or more. One of the most well known fellowship programs in science and technology policy is run by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

However, there are many more internships and fellowships available; we’ve created a list of standing internships and fellowships in the field of science and technology policy and provided links to them below. (If you know of others, please email them to jbisanz@umich.edu.) Once you are accepted into the STPP program, you will also be added to our mailing list, where you’ll hear about the latest job listings in the field.

STPP Fellowships and Internships

Name	Category	Type
AAAS: Executive Branch Fellowships	General Science	Fellowship
AAAS: Congressional Fellowships	General Science	Fellowship
American Academy of Neurology: Viste Neurology Public Policy Fellowship	Health	Fellowship
The Academy of Medical Sciences	Health	Fellowship
American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Hellman Fellowship in Science and Technology Policy	General Science	Fellowship
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy	Health	Fellowship
American Astronomical Society: John Bahcall Public Policy Fellowship	General Science	Fellowship
American Chemical Society Public Policy Fellowships	General Science	Fellowship
American Dental Society: Hillenbrand Fellowship	Health	Fellowship
American Geological Institute: William L. Fisher Congressional Geoscience Fellowship	General Science	Fellowship
American Geophysical Union: Congressional Science Fellowship	General Science	Fellowship
American Institute of Physics: Government Science Fellowships	General Science	Fellowship
American Meteorological Society: Congressional Science Fellowship	General Science	Fellowship
American Nuclear Society: Glenn T. Seaborg Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship	General Science	Fellowship
American Physical Society: Congressional Science Fellowships	General Science	Fellowship
American Psychological Association: Congressional Fellowship Program	Health	Fellowship
American Society for Microbiology: Congressional Science Fellowship	General Science	Fellowship
American Society of Agronomy (ASA) Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) Soil Science Society of America (SSSA): ASA-CSSA-SSSA Congressional Science Fellowship	Agriculture, Agronomy, and Food Science	Fellowship
American Society of Civil Engineers: Congressional Fellows Program	General Technology	Fellowship
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME): Federal Government Fellowship Program	General Technology	Fellowship
American Veterinary Medical Association: Congressional Science Fellowship	Animal and Wildlife Health	Fellowship
ASU, Millennium Challenge Corporation Innovation Fellowship	Interdisciplinary and Miscellaneous	Fellowship
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs: Fellowships	International Affairs	Fellowship
Berman Institute of Bioethics: Greenwall Fellowship Program in Bioethics and Health Policy	Health	Fellowship
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Leonard M. Rieser Fellowship	General Science	Fellowship
Gordon Research Conferences: Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship	Interdisciplinary and Miscellaneous	Fellowship
California Council on Science and Technology: California Science and Technology Policy Fellowships	Interdisciplinary and Miscellaneous	Fellowship
California Senate Fellows Program at Sacramento State	Interdisciplinary and Miscellaneous	Fellowship
The Commonwealth Fund: Health Policy Fellowships	Health	Fellowship
Congressional Budget Office	Interdisciplinary and Miscellaneous	Internship, Fellowship
Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship	Energy and the Environment	Fellowship
EPA P3 Student Sustainable Design Competition	Energy and the Environment	Team Award
Federation of Animal Science Societies (FASS): Congressional Science Fellowship	Animal and Wildlife Health	Fellowship
US Food and Drug Administration: Commissioner's Fellowship Program	Agriculture, Agronomy, Health, and Food Science	Fellowship
The Geological Society of America: Congressional Science Fellowship	General Science	Fellowship
Gordon Research Conferences: Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowships	General Science	Fellowship
Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program	International Affairs	Fellowship
Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research: Hudson River Graduate Fellowships	Energy and the Environment	Fellowship
Institute for Humane Studies: Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow Program	Interdisciplinary and Miscellaneous	Internship
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE-USA): Congressional Fellowship	General Technology	Fellowship
Institute of Food Technologists (IFT): Graduate Scholarships	Agriculture, Agronomy, and Food Science	Scholarship
Institute of Medicine: Distinguished Nurse Scholar in Residence Program	Health	Fellowship
Institute of Medicine: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows Program	Health	Fellowship
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis: Young Scientists Summer Program, Austria	General Science	Internship
International Sociological Association: Funding	International Affairs	Fellowship
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.	General Science	Internship
National Center for Atmospheric Research: Postdoctoral Fellowship Program	Energy and the Environment	Fellowship
NIH Office of Science Policy Analysis: AAAS Policy Fellowship Program	Health	Fellowship
National Water Research Institute Fellowship Program	Energy and the Environment	Scholarship
Open Society Institute: Open Society Fellowship	Interdisciplinary and Miscellaneous	Fellowship
Optical Society of America: OSA/MRS Congressional Fellows Program	General Technology	Fellowship
Rand Corporation Graduate Student Summer Associate Program	General Science	Internship
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program	Health	Fellowship
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows	Health	Fellowship
Resources for the Future: John V. Krutilla Research Stipend	Energy and the Environment	Scholarship
Resources for the Future: Walter O. Spofford, Jr. Memorial Internship	Energy and the Environment	Internship
Resources for the Future: Gilbert F. White Postdoctoral Fellowship Program	Energy and the Environment	Fellowship
Resources for the Future: Joseph L. Fisher Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships	Energy and the Environment	Fellowship
The Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship Program	Interdisciplinary and Miscellaneous	Fellowship
CDS International: Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship Program	Interdisciplinary and Miscellaneous	Internship
Social Science Research Council: Fellowships and Grants	Interdisciplinary and Miscellaneous	Fellowship, Scholarship
Society for Research in Child Development: Scholarships and Awards	Interdisciplinary and Miscellaneous	Scholarship
Society for Research in Child Development: Congressional and Executive Branch Fellowships	Interdisciplinary and Miscellaneous	Fellowship
OSA/SPIE Arthur H. Guenther Congressional Fellowship Program	General Technology	Fellowship
SUNY Albany: Fellowship on Women in Public Policy	Interdisciplinary and Miscellaneous	Fellowship
American Enterprise Institute Fellowships	International Affairs	Fellowship
Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs	Interdisciplinary and Miscellaneous	Fellowship
The Institute of Navigation: ION Congressional Fellows Program	General Technology	Fellowship
Link Foundation: Fellowships and Grants in the Energy Field	Energy and the Environment	Fellowship
Udall Foundation: Environmental Public Policy and Conflict Resolution PhD Fellowship	Energy and the Environment	Fellowship
The National Academies: Jefferson Science Fellowship	General Science	Fellowship
The National Academies: Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program	General Science	Fellowship
The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans	General Science	Fellowship
Tellus Institute for a Great Transition: Fellows Program	Interdisciplinary and Miscellaneous	Fellowship
The Fund for American Studies: Eben Tisdale Fellowship	General Technology	Internship
The Fund for American Studies: Eben Tisdale Fellowship	Information Technology	Internship
Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of University Partnerships: Doctoral Dissertation Research Grants	Interdisciplinary and Miscellaneous	Scholarship
Women's Research and Educational Institute: Women and Public Policy	Interdisciplinary and Miscellaneous	Internship