This paid summer internship offers college undergraduates an eight-week research experience under the auspices of the Yale Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine. Based on their research interests and career trajectories, interns are paired with a faculty mentor and spend the summer working with their mentor on a relevant research project. The projects are in a series of tracks that include neuroscience, developmental, and clinical areas, in various labs including those affiliated with the Yale Child Study Center, Yale's Departments of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Diagnostic Radiology, and the Haskins Laboratories. Past research areas have included the neuroscience of parenting, adolescent risk-taking, interventions for vulnerable families, and addiction.
Interns also attend lectures, seminars, and workshops where they are exposed to research beyond the scope of their lab and have the opportunity to interact with one another and other research mentors. Interns also participate in lab meetings and journal clubs within their specific research teams. In the final week of the internship, all interns present a research poster describing their work at a poster session that draws attendees from the Child Study Center and other mentoring departments and from the School of Medicine more generally.
Applications for the Yale Child Study Center summer internships are administered by Sewanee's Office of Career Readiness and accepted online via Handshake. Applications are typically due in January; see Handshake for details.
Questions? Check here for additional information, or contact Sewanee's Office of Career Readiness: careers@sewanee.edu, ext. 1121.
