How do I find an internship?

The holiday break is a perfect time to search for summer internships.  One of the benefits of pursuing a career in science is that many of these internships are paid.  How do you search for these opportunities?  Here are some suggestions:

Summer Research
on Lake Erie

• Use the Summer Research Internships label on this blog to read about past AU students and their internship experiences.  This can give you an idea of where AU students have gone in the past and the value of their internships.
• If you have not attended one of the Tri-Beta or ACS sponsored student internship nights look for those in the future.  These are great opportunities to hear directly from your fellow students about their internship search process and their internship experience.
• There are several local internship opportunities that our students often take part in.  Charles River Laboratory here in Ashland recently posted their summer internship application site, the OARDC in Wooster is a great site for agriculture science related internships, and Lubrizol in Cleveland hires summer interns in Toxicology and Chemistry.
• We send out text alerts about biology and toxicology related internship opportunities.  You can sign up for those here if you are not getting them already.
• You can search for NSF-funded internships at this site.
• Use this job/internship board from Texas A&M to find field biology related opportunities all over the country.

Another option for getting summer lab and field experience is to take a summer field course, which often also includes research experience.  Check out options at Stone Research Laboratory on Lake Erie for both classes and for paid research internships.