The internship runs from early June and through early August each summer. Prior to beginning the program, interns are responsible for completing several lab safety trainings and submitting onboarding paperwork. The experience for each intern may look a bit different depending on their lab and proposed research project, but generally:
- Week 1-3: Interns familiarize themselves with their lab, mentor, and lab team. They often read manuscripts, shadow postdocs/research assistants, and observe lab meetings. Interns should gain context around the medial problem that their lab focuses on and begin to brainstorm their research project.
- Week 4-5: Interns finalize their hypothesis and determine methods/materials to investigate the hypothesis.
- Week 6-7: Interns conduct experiments and collect data.
- Week 8-9: Interns analyze data and draw conclusions about their hypothesis.
- Week 10: Interns wrap up their research and present their findings at the symposium on the last day of the program.