Apply Now: HIPPO Undergraduate and Graduate Researcher Opportunities

The Horizon-broadening Isotope Production Pipeline Opportunities (HIPPO) collaboration, sponsored by the Department of Energy's Office of Isotope R&D and Production (DOE IRP), is the first-of-its-kind traineeship program in isotope research and development, production and processing. Its primary goal is to help develop the future isotope production workforce for the nation.

The HIPPO team is currently recruiting undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of scientific disciplines from across the country. HIPPO aims to expose students to a broad range of isotope production-related activities while providing each participant with a specific research project. Each trainee will have access to collaborative networking with both HIPPO and peer mentors and undertake a variety of in-person and virtual training opportunities at a national laboratory and at DOE IP University Isotope Network production sites.

Students will spend most of the summer at a HIPPO institution doing IRP research, a week at a HIPPO campus and a national laboratory learning about isotope production. Please note:  this opportunity is available to all interested undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at domestic U.S. college and universities. For more information, please look at the undergraduate and graduate student opportunities webpage, or reach out to hippo@tamu.edu. Applications are now open for undergraduate researchers through February 9, 2026, and for graduate researchers through February 23, 2026.

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