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Why be a life-health sciences mentor?

          
  • Access a pool of students interested in your field and wanting to learn more
  • Meet potential future graduate students or lab technicians
  • Students already have at least some basic lab and research skills to build on
  • Obtain help on projects that you are interested in but might not have time for
  • Make connections and create better relationships with students
  • Encourage the next generation of researchers and scientists
  • Help improve retention rates by keeping students on campus for both class and work
  • This program pays for the intern, you provide the experience

This is a great opportunity to get undergraduates involved with and interested in your research or work. Interns are pre-screened and you will interview students interested in your project prior to placement. The typical LHSI student is a full-time sophomore or junior and has at least a 2.5 overall GPA (the average tends to be in the 3.5-3.6 range). You are encouraged to specify skills or other prerequisites in your project description.

If you are interested in hosting an intern for the 2012-2013 academic year, fill out the Internship Description form below and return it to MS 207 or lhsi@iupui.edu. Because interns are also enrolled in full-time coursework, we ask that you keep the projects within the designated 10 hours per week.

Need more information or have questions about what an appropriate project might look like? Contact Brandi Gilbert at 278-3637 or lhsi@iupui.edu.

Internship Description form (.doc)

The basics:

  • program pays the intern $10 per hour up to 10 hours per week
  • intern works with you from late August to early May
  • two site visits per year to check in
  • poster session in April

 

Extras:

  • competitive conference and meeting travel grant available
  • MED I200 course for interns to record experience on their transcripts
  • interns informed of other ways to continue working with you after the end of the internship