The program seeks to:
• improve the research enterprise through increased diversity
• champion the value of graduate education
• prepare and recruit the best and brightest for undergraduateand graduate education at Iowa State University
• bridge the gap between lack of access to technology/information and opportunities to engage in experiential learning in an effort to increase the participation of students of color in STEM fields.
Projects/research activities vary based on the expertise of the faculty mentor to whom the intern is assigned. Disciplines commonly providing opportunities are:
• agricultural and biosystems engineering
• agricultural education and studies
• agronomy
• animal science
• biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology
• ecology, evolution and organismal biology
• entomology
• food science and human nutrition
• genetics and genomics
• development and cell biology
• horticulture
• natural resource ecology and management
• plant pathology and microbiology
• sociology
Undergraduate Program:
The Undergraduate experience lasts eight weeks. Undergraduate students are provided with room and board on campus, round-trip airfare, and a stipend of $3,000 (2018). NOTE: Graduating seniors are eligible to apply.
Programming:
Interns are required to:
• participate in a professional experience which requires 40 hours
per week
• complete a research project in coordination with their faculty
mentor
• prepare an abstract and written report
• present their work (oral or poster) at the Research Symposium at the end of the program.
Each summer intern will also participate in:
• weekly professional development
• educational activities.
• weekly educational seminars
• social and cultural activities.
Residence assistants are available evenings and weekends for support and program coordinators are in frequent contact with each intern.
To be eligible students must be:
• U.S. citizens or permanent residents
• 3.0 or above student at his/her university or high school
For complete information after January 1 see: http://www.diversity.cals.iastate.edu/gwc
The above website will detail the deadlines for submitting your application (between January 1 and mid-February), dates of the internships (undergrad is eight weeks - June 9, 2018- August 4, 2018.
To apply:
Fill out and submit the application on-line.
Mail two sealed recommendation letters and official transcript in one package to:
Theressa Cooper Attn: GWC Internship
139 Curtiss Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-1050.
For more information - http://www.diversity.cals.iast