Summer Research and Internships - General

Application deadline March 18th!!!  NAACP Internship Opportunity:

Interested in interning with the NAACP Youth & College Division?
The NAACP Youth & College Division has partnered with the AT&T Foundation
to host a six-week fellowship and internship program during the summer
of 2008. The program will run from June 14th to July 25th, 2008.  This
program will provide undergrad and graduate students with the
opportunity to work in the NAACP offices in Baltimore, MD, New York, NY, or
Washington, DC. For application information go to:
http://www.pgcps.org/~nwest/school%20pdf's/NAACP%20Internship%20Opportunity.pdf

Caroline Kouassiaman, a recent graduate of Occidental College, has compiled a general Summer Opportunities for Minority Undergraduate Students, which includes information on summer programs at the University of Illinois, American Negro College Fund, The AFL-CIO Union, Population Resource Center, the Century Fund, and more! So scroll on down that web page and take a look. And watch those deadlines!

JPL Productions, an award-winning media producer, offers complete creative and technical production services. They specialize in organizational communications. JPL offers unpaid internships, with the nature of the individual project based upon requests submitted by area agencies for communications solutions. For more information please go to http://www.jplprod.com/careers/internships.asp.  

Steelworkers' Summer is an educational and training internship in which participants develop skills useful for union organizing by experiencing firsthand the kinds of struggles workers face while trying to win a voice at work. It is also designed to give participants an understanding and appreciation of the positive impact the union has had on their parents' working lives. Internships are open to young adults, 18 years of age or older. Selection preference is given to children of members of the United Steelworkers International Union. Steelworkers' Summer is committed to uniting students, workers, and community activists to bring about social justice through work place and community organizing.

The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (an academic consortium of the "Big Ten" universities and the University of Chicago) offers a Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) that seeks to interest talented undergraduate minority students in academic careers, and to enhance their preparation for graduate study through intensive research experiences with faculty mentors. Participating institutions include Pennsylvania State University.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has announced its Minority Undergraduate Research Assistant Program (MURAP) in social sciences, fine arts and humanties.  A small component of UNC's Summer Pre-Graduate Research Experience (see below), it seeks to aid students in developing graduate-level work and to expose them to the rigors and expectations of the graduate school environment. Applications must be postmarked no later than February 3, 2003 and can be submitted online or printed and mailed to:

RES Program
CB# 3500
Peabody Hall
UNC-CH
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3500
Fax: 919-962-1533

The University of North Carolina's Summer Pre-Graduate Research Experience Program (SPGRE) seeks to give students the opportunity to work full-time on research projects (from molecular biology to physical chemistry or from American colonial history to 20th century American literature!) under the direction of UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members. "The program is designed for students sincerely interested in pursuing graduate studies, preferably the Ph.D. degree. SPGRE is one effort to address the obvious shortage of Ph.D. recipients from underrepresented groups particularly those from African American, Native American, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican populations."

Smithsonian Institute's Office of Fellowships and Grants "offers a number of opportunities to increase participation of minority groups who are underrepresented in Smithsonian scholarly programs, in the disciplines of research conducted at the Institution, and in the museum field." Deadline for summer application is (postmark) February 1.

The University of California, Riverside, has a Graduate Division Mentoring Summer Research Internship Program (MSRIP)for rising juniors and seniors interested in pursuing Ph.D.'s in a variety of fields.