Consistent with the SOT goal to enhancing recruitment of students into toxicology, the SOT Education Committee has established funding to undergraduate intern hosts to enable additional internships in toxicology during summer 2014. This funding will support up to six summer internship positions with a 50% match from the host institution or other funding sources. Priority will be given to institutions with existing successful internship programs. The institution will select the SOT funded intern using that program’s process with the stipulation that SOT seeks to fund students who are seriously considering graduate school in toxicology. Preference will be given to programs with strategies to successfully recruit students from groups typically underrepresented in the sciences. Pictured above from left to right are Gabrielle Thorne, Matt Lynch, and Lauren De Perspiris and below on the left is Kia Perez and on the right Michael Rankin.
The description and application provide more detail. The completed application is due January 30, 2014. Award decisions will be made in early February 2014.
In the 2013 pilot program SOT funded five interns at three institutions as noted below. The successf
ul applicants for the matching intern funding were Lauren Aleksunes at Rutgers, William Atchison at Michigan State University, and Craig Marcus at Oregon State University.
If your institution does have an active internship program, please make sure that the program is included in the SOT Internship listing by sending the program description and link to Betty Eidemiller at Betty Eidemiller during December. SOT promotes these listings to our undergraduate contacts and SOT Undergraduate Student Affiliates.