please consider taking a summer intern!
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Steven Salzberg
Mar 25, 2014, 9:30:57 AM3/25/14
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hi colleagues,
We are once again running our small summer intern program in the Center for Computational Biology (CCB), and the applications are all in. I'm writing to see if any of you want to supervise a computational intern this summer. We have 76 applications, most of them really impressive, and I'm hoping we can take more than the 6-7 we took the past two summers. This is a great opportunity for one of your postdocs, or an experienced grad student, to get some experience as a mentor. Interns in past years (we ran this back at U. Maryland as well) have had very good experiences, and several have gone on to graduate school in genomics and/or computational biology.
We have 2 classes of students: college and high school. College students start in mid-May and will be here for 10 weeks; high school students start in mid-June and are here for 6 weeks.
These are purely computational internships - we asked all the students to describe their programming skills, and the attached spreadsheet summarizes their applications with notes about programming. So if you or anyone in your lab has a computational analysis project that you think an intern could work on, please consider taking one of these students.
What you need to provide: (1) a small stipend, and (2) optionally, a desk with a computer. We have about 5 cubicles (and computers) available for those who don't have space in their labs. The stipend is about $2400 for high school and $4400 for college students.
We arrange weekly meetings for all the interns to learn about other work in CCB. Towards the end of the summer, they present their work to us in a small workshop.
If you're interested, Liliana Florea (cc'd here) is running the program, as she did in previous years - please contact her and she will help you sign up one of the students for your lab.
thanks!
Steven
We are once again running our small summer intern program in the Center for Computational Biology (CCB), and the applications are all in. I'm writing to see if any of you want to supervise a computational intern this summer. We have 76 applications, most of them really impressive, and I'm hoping we can take more than the 6-7 we took the past two summers. This is a great opportunity for one of your postdocs, or an experienced grad student, to get some experience as a mentor. Interns in past years (we ran this back at U. Maryland as well) have had very good experiences, and several have gone on to graduate school in genomics and/or computational biology.
We have 2 classes of students: college and high school. College students start in mid-May and will be here for 10 weeks; high school students start in mid-June and are here for 6 weeks.
These are purely computational internships - we asked all the students to describe their programming skills, and the attached spreadsheet summarizes their applications with notes about programming. So if you or anyone in your lab has a computational analysis project that you think an intern could work on, please consider taking one of these students.
What you need to provide: (1) a small stipend, and (2) optionally, a desk with a computer. We have about 5 cubicles (and computers) available for those who don't have space in their labs. The stipend is about $2400 for high school and $4400 for college students.
We arrange weekly meetings for all the interns to learn about other work in CCB. Towards the end of the summer, they present their work to us in a small workshop.
If you're interested, Liliana Florea (cc'd here) is running the program, as she did in previous years - please contact her and she will help you sign up one of the students for your lab.
thanks!
Steven
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