Finding your Internship

Keep your eyes open

• Subscribe to LifeLink
• Visit the Information Resource Center (IRC, 1317 Symons Hall)
• Visit the Career Center (3rd floor, Hornbake Library)
• Check out the bulletin boards in academic buildings

• Create your own personal network of friends, professors, teaching assistants and academic/career advisors. Many openings are never advertised widely because they are quickly filled by word of mouth.
• Be sure to visit campus career fairs and the annual Bioscience Internship and Career Fair.
• Attend Career seminars to find out more about internships and network with representatives of different fields that employ life sciences majors.

• Career Center: provides career counseling, maintains resources on career planning and job hunting, sponsors information sessions and workshops and assists with internship, part-time and full-time job placement.
• Careers 4 Terps: 24-hour access to job and internship listings, resume referral, on-campus interviewing, and updates on employer events.
• LifeLink announcements: a listing of recent internship and job opportunities
• JIFSAN internship program: research internships in a variety of areas (e.g., animal health, analytical chemistry, immunology, microbiology, risk assessment and toxicology) sponsored by the University of Maryland, College Park and the Food and Drug Administration.
• Off-campus Internships: a list of places where University of Maryland students have held internships, with links to their internship program information.
• If you are interested in finding an internship in another geographic region of the U.S., try the internship web sites of colleges and universities in that location.
• If you are looking for an international internship, GoAbroad.com and Study>Abroad.com have comprehensive websites listing of programs and resources. The President's Promise Office can also help you find these kinds of opportunities.

1. On-campus research
   • The Getting started in research web site has links to a variety of on-campus research resources and suggestions for locating a mentor.
   • Look through the clipboards in the IRC (1317 Symons Hall) for summer and academic year opportunities.
   • Keep an eye out for flyers posted in hallways too...
   
   
   
2. Off-campus research
   • Browse through the listing of recent internship sites for listings of federal agencies and biotech companies that have hosted University of Maryland interns.
   • Look through the clipboards in the IRC (1317 Symons Hall) for summer and academic year opportunities.
   • Check out the JIFSAN internship program, a collaboration between our campus and the Food and Drug Administration.
   • The National Institutes of Health sponsors many research internship programs. See the NIH Research and Training Opportunities and NIH Research Training and Career Development Programs websites for more details.
   • Search the Howard Hughes Medical Institute online database for HHMI-funded summer opportunities on other campuses.
   • Search for National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) summer internships
   
   
   
3. Clinical/Health Care
   • Volunteer at the Campus Health Center.
   • Become a Campus Health Center Peer Educator.
   • The Health Professions Advising Office has a listing of sites for clinical experiences
   • Check the listing of volunteer opportunities in hospitals within the region, kept in a notebook in the IRC (1317 Symons Hall) or go to the local hospital website listing.
   • The Community Service-Learning Office lets you search online for opportunities in many fields, including health care.
   
   
   
4. Non-profit Organizations and Community Service
   • Community Service-Learning has gathered a large number of resources to assist students, faculty, and staff in finding service opportunities. These resources can be found on their web site or by visiting their office at 1120 Stamp Student Union.
   • Search for volunteer and internship opportunities in the U.S. and abroad on the Idealist web site.
   • Browse through the listing of recent internship sites for listings of federal agencies, health care organizations and non-profit organizations that have hosted University of Maryland interns.
   • Look through the clipboards in the IRC (1317 Symons Hall) for summer and academic year opportunities.