Skip to main content
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • ’Cuse Conversations Podcast
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
Campus & Community
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
Sections
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • ’Cuse Conversations Podcast
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
Campus & Community

Internship Funding Award Empowers Students to Experience

Monday, March 20, 2023, By News Staff
Share
Career ServicesStudents

In a student’s professional development journey, internships serve as a vital stepping stone. They can help a student network with professionals, get to know a potential industry of interest and gain vital experience to build resumes. While possibly lacking the funds to do so, internship opportunities may expect interested students to travel for temporary relocation, all while paying for expenses.

student Ainsley MacLachlan works at a lab bench

Ainsley MacLachlan completed an internship in summer 2022 with Harvard Medical School’s Grousbeck Center for Gene Therapy Zabaleta lab, thanks to the Internship Funding Award.

Internship Funding Award | Applications Due Friday, June 30

Syracuse University Career Services dares students to dream big professionally while working diligently to aid in the process of finding an internship by helping to remove barriers. Breaking down financial barriers to boost student success is the University’s Internship Funding Award. Offered annually to eligible sophomores and juniors, this financial award provides support to help meet the cost of an unpaid summer internship for credit, travel and living expenses.

“The Internship Funding Award is an example of how we can support our students with an intentional approach,” says Erin Smith ’15, Career Services internship program coordinator. “Through this fund, students have the opportunity to turn their vision into reality.”

Helping Students Define and Achieve Professional Success

Recipients of the Internship Funding Award express that it has provided opportunities that otherwise may not have been available and encourage all eligible students to apply.

Taking Action to Build Desired Internship Opportunities

When seeking a hands-on laboratory experience, Ainsley MacLachlan ’24 discovered limited opportunities, often a result of reduced laboratory ability to host intern participation. When MacLachlan didn’t find an internship that fit her scope of professional development and sought-after experience, she built one. Throughout summer 2022 at the Harvard Medical School Grousbeck Center for Gene Therapy Zabaleta lab, MacLachlan supported research surrounding genetic engineering, reducing costs and working with the Adeno-associated virus (AAV), commonly used as a vector for gene therapies.

“I was so excited about the research that they were doing, I was not ready to give up,” says MacLachlan. “When I found the Internship Funding Award and presented it to the primary investigator of the lab, she was willing to take me on with my own funding. I was able to work collaboratively with others in the lab to develop skills and understand new concepts.”

Building a Strong Professional Foundation Through Exploration

portrait of Uchechi Onyenkpa ’23

Onyenkpa

Motivated by passion and providing experiences that help to identify career goals, internships at their core are exploratory. L3HARRIS Technologies Diversity Operations, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) intern, Uchechi Onyenkpa ’23, dove into her passion of working in DEI in summer 2022.

“This experience was extremely valuable to me, as working in DEI has always been of interest and an area I ultimately seek to pursue a career in. This internship provided me not only a strong foundation, but a wide glimpse into this area through the projects that I worked on and the connections I made,” says Onyenkpa. “This is an experience that I am very thankful for, but I am also thankful for the Internship Funding Award, as it eased a significant strain off me, financially, allowing me to focus more on my internship and gain valuable experiences. I encourage students to apply for this funding. Students are often wary of applying because they think they might not end up getting it but I cannot stress just how helpful this funding was to me. I believe that without it, my internship experience would not have been as great as it was!”

Complete details, including application instructions, are available on the Career Services Internship Funding Award webpage.

Story by Student Experience communications intern Esteban Quiñones ’24, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

 

  • Author

News Staff

  • Recent
  • Supporting, Advocating for Trans Youth Will Help Them Thrive As Adults
    Friday, May 26, 2023, By Daryl Lovell
  • 2023-24 Parking Rates Announced
    Friday, May 26, 2023, By News Staff
  • Lutheran Chaplain Announces Retirement
    Thursday, May 25, 2023, By Dara Harper
  • Dean J. Cole Smith Talks With FedEx President and CEO Raj Subramaniam G’89 About Leadership and Advice for Current Students
    Thursday, May 25, 2023, By Alex Dunbar
  • From Generation to Generation: Doing Well by Doing Good
    Thursday, May 25, 2023, By Eileen Korey

More In Campus & Community

2023-24 Parking Rates Announced

Syracuse University has set its parking rates for the 2023-24 academic year. The University’s rates, which align with those of peer institutions, provide funding for technology upgrades and capital improvements to parking lots and garages across campus. Employee rates for…

Lutheran Chaplain Announces Retirement

After 15 years of service as Lutheran Chaplain at Hendricks Chapel, Rev. Gail Riina has announced her retirement, effective at the end of July. Pastor Gail (as she is often known by students) served in numerous campus contexts throughout her…

Dean J. Cole Smith Talks With FedEx President and CEO Raj Subramaniam G’89 About Leadership and Advice for Current Students

Raj Subramaniam G’89 is the president and chief executive officer of FedEx Corporation. He has more than 30 years of industry experience at FedEx and is responsible for several recent transformational initiatives, including revitalizing the company’s operating strategy, profitably growing…

SyracuseCoE Awards $180,000 for 9 Faculty Fellow Projects Supporting Research and Innovation

The Syracuse Center of Excellence (SyracuseCoE) in Environmental and Energy Systems has awarded nearly $180,000 for the 2023 SyracuseCoE Faculty Fellow awards. These nine research and innovation projects are led by faculty members from Syracuse University, SUNY College of Environmental Science…

Researchers’ Artificial Intelligence-Based Speech Sound Therapy Software Wins $2.5M NIH Grant

Three Syracuse University researchers, supported by a recent $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, are working to refine a clinically intuitive automated system that may improve treatment for speech sound disorders while alleviating the impact of a…

Subscribe to SU Today

If you need help with your subscription, contact sunews@syr.edu.

Connect With Us

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
Social Media Directory

For the Media

Find an Expert Follow @SyracuseUNews
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
  • @SyracuseU
  • @SyracuseUNews
  • @SUCampus
  • Social Media Directory
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy
  • Campus Status
  • Syracuse.edu
© 2023 Syracuse University News. All Rights Reserved.