Chemistry

Major and Minor Internship Search Tools

The most up to date listings for internships can be found on LyonNet. With hundreds of active internships (expect more listings late fall-early spring for summer opportunities), we collaborate with 28 other liberal arts colleges to provide a broad range of opportunities. Here you can also sign up to have internships emailed to you by areas of interest by utilizing the “search agent” feature.

Internships-USA, an online database, provides continually updated internship opportunities by topic and geographic area. Access Internships-USA through LyonNet.

Our Career Center and Library provide extensive information about how to search for and secure an internship, visit us and meet with a counselor to talk about the process.

Not sure where to get started? Attend an internship workshop to learn more about how to conduct an effective and efficient search or develop your own opportunity.

All students with majors or minors in sciences or mathematics should consider participating in a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at one of the many institutions offering them in the U.S.  REU projects involve active participation by students in ongoing research programs or in research projects designed especially for the purpose. Beginning in November, the NSF Web site lists opportunities by discipline; they include:

• Astronomical Sciences
• Atmospheric Sciences
• Biological Sciences
• Chemistry
• Computer and Information Science and Engineering
• Cyberinfrastructure
• Department of Defense (DoD)
• Earth Sciences
• Education and Human Resources
• Engineering, Ethics and Values Studies
• International Science and Engineering
• Materials Research
• Mathematical Sciences
• Ocean Sciences
• Physics
• Polar Programs
• Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences

Students with science or mathematics majors or minors are especially encouraged to apply for summer funding from the HHMI Undergraduate Science Education Program.

Both first-year students and upper class students are eligible to apply. To apply to this program, check the box labeled "HHMI Summer Education Program" on the MHC Universal Application form.

There are many other summer research opportunities in the field of chemistry. For off-campus opportunities, please see Chemistry Department faculty for advice and more information. These programs generally have deadlines in January or February.

 

• Princeton Institute for Science and Technology of Materials Research Experience for Undergraduates.
• University of Mass-Boston Research Experiences for Undergraduates.
• The University of Texas Medical Branch Summer Undergraduate Research Program.
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Experience Oceanography.
• Woods Hole SEA Semester.
• Yale University Summer Medical Education Program (SMEP).
• Northeast Alliance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR).
• New York City Department of Health. Public health. May include lab work.
• Parkinson's Disease Research. Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
• Pfizer Biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences.
• Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, NY.   Biology and chemistry. 
• Schering-Plough Summer Intern New Jersey and elsewhere.
• University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT. Lab research with clinical/dental experience.
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC.   Health effects of environmental agents. Seniors may be eligible.
• MetroHealth Foundation, Cleveland OH. For Ohio residents only. Clinical lab research.
• University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.  Biochemistry. 
• U.S. Department of Energy. Energy research undergraduate laboratory fellowship. Lots of engineering and physics, but also includes health and environmental sciences and biology. At DOE labs around the country, including Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island.  Graduating seniors are eligible.
• Institut Pasteur. Paris, France. Zuccaire Undergraduate Summer Internship.
• Cornell Medical School Gateways to the laboratory summer program trains freshman and sophomores to become successful MD-PhD applicants
• NHMFL summer undergraduate research fellowship at Florida State University, University of Florida or Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation 10-12 week internships
• The Student Conservation Association
• National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL.
• Summerbridge. Sites around the country, including Manhattan and Bronx. Get teaching experience, may include science and math.
• Advanced Studies Program - St. Paul's School, Concord, NH. Science teaching internship, field and lab work.
• Kennedy Space Center (Florida A&M), Tallahassee, FL. and other NASA sites Space biology, life support, ecology. Prepare experiments for the space shuttle.
• University of Minnesota - Supercomputing Institute, Minneapolis, MN.   Scientific computing, graphics and medicine.
• Smithsonian Institution Various opportunities.
• Society for Toxicology Summer Internship
• National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates

Students with an interest in Chemistry major are encouraged to research and develop their own internship opportunity. To assist you in securing an internship, please find below a sampling of places where Chemistry majors have completed an internship. Please note: the CDC does not promote or is in no way affiliated with the companies or institutions listed.

• Banc Post Bank
• Bangladesh National Women Lawyer's Association, Proshanti Women's Shelter Home/Railway Hospital
• Baystate Medical Center
• CASCADE Summer Research Mentoring Program
• Civil Court of the City of New York
• Cornell Medical School
• Corning Incorporated
• Harvard University - Physics Department
• Holyoke Medical Center
• IBM - Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Structural Biology and Computational Biology Center
• Idaho State Laboratory
• Mark S. Singer, M.D.
• Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
• Mount Holyoke College Summer Research Program, Chemistry Department
• Mount Holyoke College, CASCADE Summer Research Mentoring Program, Department of Chemistry
• Mount Holyoke College, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Undergraduate Summer Research Internship Program
• Music at Orchard Hill, Inc.
• National Institutes of Health
• National Science Foundation--REU Program Univ. of
• Plancher Hand and Sports Medicine
• Proshanti Women's Shelter Home/Railway Hospital
• Ross and Ross Attorneys at Law
• St. David’s Medical Center
• Stahl USA
• Sudanese English Project
• Summer 2002 Internship Temporary Program
• The Rockefeller University
• The University of Akron
• United Family Health Center
• Univ. of Vermont
• Univeristy of Nebraska
• University of Connecticut, Department of Chemistry
• University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
• Yale University School of Medicine
• Yale University, Department of Chemistry
• York University

To search for active internship listings, please visit the LyonNet database.