Alabama Plasma Internship Program (ALPIP)
The NSF EPSCoR CPU2AL program sponsors a 10-week Alabama Plasma Internship Program (ALPIP) for undergraduate students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics across the southeastern U.S. The program provides students with nine-week quality research experiences at Alabama Institutions and one week of lectures, laboratory experiments, and short classes in plasma science given by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in New Jersey. Research projects seek to understand, predict, and control plasma processes and interactions and to use low-temperature plasmas to develop new technologies for aerospace, manufacturing, medicine, agriculture, and food safety.
Students receive a 10-week stipend of $5,500, paid housing and travel during the internship, and a $2000 travel allowance to present the internship results at a conference after the internship.
Areas of research: Physics, Space Science, Agriculture, Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Chemistry, Microbiology, and more.
Applicant Eligibility
- Applicants must be undergraduate students enrolled full time in a higher education institution in the southeastern U.S, which includes Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.
- Applicants must be pursuing a degree in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) field.
- Applicants must be rising juniors or seniors. Applicants graduating before the internship are not eligible to apply unless they have accepted an offer to become graduate students at a CPU2AL institution. Freshmen applicants are ineligible.
- Applicants must have a cumulative GPA of 2.75 or higher.
- Applicants must be 19 years of age by the start date of the appointment.
- Applicants must be U.S. citizens.
Internship Benefits
- Ten-week stipend of $5500
- Paid on-campus housing during the nine weeks in AL
- Travel allowance of up to $700 for roundtrip transportation costs from/to the student home institution to/from the AL hosting institution
- Paid transportation and housing costs for the first-week trip to PPPL
- Travel allowance of $2000 to present the internship results at a conference after the internship
Intern Responsibilities
- Interns must participate full-time for 10 consecutive weeks.
- By the end of the internship, students must (a) present the results of the summer project to the hosting institution, (b) complete a report about the internship experience, and (c) complete a feedback form to help assess the effectiveness of the program.
Application deadline: January 31, 2019, 11:59AM CST
How to Apply: Applications and supporting materials must be submitted at
Program Information: Detailed information about the internships can be found at
For questions please email us at nsfepscor@uah.edu.