Graduate Statistical Internships
On this page, we will list all of the Internships we find out
about which are open to statistically trained graduate students, in
Industry, Government, and research or nonprofit research
laboratories.
Many opportunities are available through the University
Career Center. Although their Internships
Page is largely geared to Undergraduates, the pointers and advice
given there should be very valuable also for Graduate Students.
Many campus Departments regularly urge or even require their
graduate students to gain Practicum or Internship experience: the
Required Survey
Practicum; the Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Statistical
Computing (AMSC) program's newly approved specialization in Applied Statistics
requires Ph.D. students to complete a Practicum in Applied Statistics
(AMSC 760).
Many internships at government agencies require US citizenship,
and even for internships open to non-citizens, international students
must follow their own visa-related guidelines which can be found
through International
Educational Services on campus.
Contacts for Internships
UMCP students have recently been either supported or placed in
internships at the Census Bureau, the National Institutes of Health
(NIH), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Army Research
Labs (ARL), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and other agencies.
The following agencies and branches (with contacts information given
below) have indicated their willingness to consider student interns
(with citizenship absolutely required only at defense department and
Census Bureau, and for certain programs at other agencies). An
alphabetic listing by agency follows.
ARL:
internship or partial RA support may be available for projects on
statistical and computational linguistics related to systems for
automatic machine translation of foreign-language documents. Inquiries
should be addressed to:
Clare Voss, Ph.D., Army Research Laboratory, Attn: AMSRD-CI-IT, 2800
Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, MD 20783
Census
Bureau: statistical internships related to Census surveys
and problems (including statistical analysis, time series and record
linkage methodology) are available at the Statistical Research Division;
inquiries should be sent to:
Dr. Tommy Wright, Director of Statistical Research
Division,Census Bureau (tommy.wright@census.gov).
Department of
Education: unpaid internships in the Policy and Program Studies
Service are available for Summer 2010, for one or more graduate
students in statistics, especially for students who are interested in
Bayesian statistics, as I am interested in the possibilities of using
Bayesian statistics in prospective evaluation. A job description of
the Internships can be viewed at JobDescription.doc. The contact
for students interested in this opportunity is: Sharon Stout, Ph.D.
Education Research Analyst at the Dept. of Education Office of
Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development.
FDA: there
are internship possibilities in various sections of FDA, which will be
advertised here as we get more information. An excellent immediate
contact for Internships is:
Ram Tiwari, Ph.D., Associate Director, Office of Biostatistics
Center for Drug Evaluation & Research, FDA, 10903 New Hampshire Ave.,
WO Bldg. 21, Rm. 3524 (ram.tiwari@fda.hhs.gov)
NCHS: for
internships related to health surveys and biostatistical modelling, send
requests and ideas for internships to:
Dr. Lawrence Cox, Director Office of Research and Methodology (lgc9@cdc.gov).
Several NIH statistical branches regularly make use of
standard `fellowship' and Internship mechanisms which are slanted
towards US citizens and permanent residents but are not exclusively
restricted to them. See this link
or this
one for general information.
NCI: the
Biometric Research Branch at the National Cancer Institute has the
possibility of Cancer Research Training Awards which can be
used for internships, in various possible projects related to cancer
clinical trials and genomics, but this mechanism can be used only for
US citizens and permanent residents. If interested, contact:
Richard Simon, D.Sc., Chief, Biometric Research Branch,
National Cancer Institute (rsimon@mail.nih.gov)
NCI:
an investigator in the Biostatistics Branch of the
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND BIOSTATISTICS PROGRAM in National Cancer Institute,
Dr. Jianxin Shi, (jianxin.shi@nih.gov), would be interested in
having students cooperate on summer internship projects in the areas
of Statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, bioinfomatics, and gene
mapping of complex diseases. Other mentors and projects at the same
Branch are also available.
NHLBI: the
Office of Biometric Research in the National Heart Lung and Blood
Institute often sponsors biostatistical internships. If interested,
contact
Dr. Nancy Geller, Director, Office of Biostatistics
Research, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, NHLBI (gellern@mail.nih.gov).
NICHD:
Summer internships, pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships, and
other internship positions are available at the Biostatistics and
Bioinformatics Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of
Child Health and Human Development. Summary of opportunity and
research possibilities are available at our website
Despr.nichd.nih.gov. Contact Paul S. Albert, Ph.D., Chief and Senior
Investigator, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Branch at 301-496-5582
or (albertp@mail.nih.gov) for more information.
