<p>JHS,</p>
<p>I was on the inside for a year. Neither Argonne nor Fermilab offer much for undergrads, mostly because of distance - there are good projects and accessible profs on campus. Keep in mind that the national lab folks may hold an academic appointment at UofC, but spend most of their time at the labs.</p>
<p>OTOH, there are no doubt physicists who have a project at one of the labs or collaborates with someone who does, but in my time at UofC, I did not see much cross fertilization, not that the admin was not trying.</p>