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).
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 Xi, (jianxins@mail.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 Prevention and Pop'n Sciences (gellern@mail.nih.gov).
NICHD: the
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Branch in the Division of
Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research in the National
Institute for Child Health offers some possibilities for summer
internships and/or Fellowships. The particular projects of greatest
interest in this Branch involve a large collaborative project studying
genetic factors for birth defects, mainly Neural Tube Defects, based
mostly on case-control genotype data. If you are interested,
please get in touch with:
James F. Troendle, Senior Investigator, Biostatistics and
Bioinformatics Branch, NICHD (troendlj@exchange.nih.gov).
