Undergraduate

You can study astronomy and astrophysics with ICRAR at either Curtin University or the University of Western Australia. More details available on our 'Study with ICRAR' factsheet (pdf, 1.1MB).

Summer Studentships

Studentships such as ICRAR's are an excellent opportunity for undergraduate students to experience cutting edge research in Australia. If you are interested in a Summer Studentship with ICRAR, we welcome your application.

In 2012 selected undergraduate students (3rd and 4th year and honours students) from Australia and New Zealand will receive up to $6,000 over the 10 week internship. Applicants not from Western Australia will also receive one return airfare to Perth from their home city. Accommodation can be organised by ICRAR and will be subsidised by up to 50%.

Details of the available projects (including detailed project proposals) are available at the studentships page.  Four of the eight internships available are offered jointly with iVEC for projects with a computational focus.  

The successful applicants are expected to begin in late November. See studentships for more details.

Honours Course

ICRAR researchers run an Honours course with a total of 48 lectures in eight modules. The lectures are also suitable for staff and postgraduate students. Lectures are split evenly between the two semesters March-June and August-October. Lectures are normally doubled-up and held from 2-4pm on Mondays at the Curtin and UWA nodes of ICRAR. More details available on the UWA web page for the course.

Recent modules have been:

Semester 1

• Radiation Processes (J-P Macquart)
• High Energy Astrophysics (Leith Godfrey)
• Line Emission (Lister Staveley-Smith)
• Astrophysical Shocks (Chris Power)

Semester 2

• Advanced Radio Astronomy (Cormac Reynolds)
• Galactic Dynamics (Kenji Bekki)
• Space Electrodynamics (Ron Burnam)
• Compact Objects (James Miller-Jones)

Lecture notes for the combined honours course are available on the ICRAR-net to current students (password protected, email education@icrar.org if you need the password).

The ICRAR ICT team also run a Parallel Programming and High Performance Computing honours course in Semester 2. More details are available from course coordinator A/Prof Slava Kitaeff. Honours and PhD students from both nodes of ICRAR are welcome to take the course. 

Scholarships

There are many scholarships, both need and merit based, for undergraduates at Curtin University and The University of Western Australia.

ICRAR Honours Scholarships

Congratulations to Evelyn Chuk, honours student at ICRAR/UWA for being awarded the 2012 ICRAR Honours Scholarship. Please check back later this year for details on how to apply for next year's scholarship, or email education@icrar.org with any questions.