Summer Opportunities

Biology
Olin-Rice Science Center, Room 221
651-696-6100
651-696-6443 fax

Below are listed a variety of summer research, job, internship, and course opportunities in which Biology students might be interested. New opportunities are added as we receive them. Additional opportunities can found at the Science and Research Office website.

Manager - Out of School STEM programming (Twin Cities)

Full time Tutoring of High Risk Students - U of Chicago (Chicago, IL)

Biological Technician re: Fish Species - Great Lakes (Green Bay, WI)

Biological Technician re: Aquatic Invasive Species - Great Lakes (Green Bay, WI)

Teaching/Tutoring - Great Oaks Charter School (Newark, NJ)

Environmental Science Research - Yosemite Field Station (Yosemite National Park, CA)

Marine Biology Internship (unpaid) - Duke University Marine Lab (Beaufort, NC)

Summer Interpretive Naturalist -Northern Minnesota (Tofte, MN)

Bioenergy Research - South Dakota State University (Brookings, SD)

Urban Ecology Research - University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)

Toxicology Research - National Center for Toxicological Research (Jefferson, Arkansas)

Environmental Health Intern - Hennepin County, MN

High School Tutoring & Mentoring - all living expenses provided (Boston, MA)

Minnesota Zoo summer biodiversity internship - unpaid (Apple Valley, MN)

Study Field Biology in the Boundary Waters (canoe country outside of Ely, MN)

Forest Ecology Research - U of Minnesota (northern Minnesota research sites)

One Week Global Sustainability Workshop (Grand Tetons National Park, Wyoming)

Biotech Internship (Paid) - Research & Diagnostics, Inc. (Minneapolis)

Wildlife Rehabilitation Intern - Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota (St. Paul/Roseville, MN)

Water Quality Intern (Paid) (St. Paul)

Watercraft Inspector Intern (Paid) - Minnesota DNR (throughout the state)

Environmental Water Sampling (Minneapolis Parks & Rec)

Biostatistics Institute focused on Health Sciences (universities around the country)

Biomedical Research, Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

Mussel Research, Missouri DNR (Kirksville, Missouri)

Plant Systematics, Conservation Biology, and Ethnobotany, Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis, MO)

Stream Research and Management, Minnesota DNR (throughout Minnesota)

Marine Coastal Biology Research, University of Florida (Jacksonville, Florida)

Water Resources Research, Prairie Island Indian Community (Welch, Minnesota)

Science Education Research, North Dakota State University (Fargo, North Dakota)

Mussel Internships with MN DNR (St. Paul and Lake City)

Nature Center Naturalists (Faribault, Minnesota)

Research in Biological Engineering, MIT (Cambridge, MA)

Biochemistry and Molecular & Cell Biology Research, University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN)

Teaching Fellows Program, New York City

Biomedical Research, U of Texas Southwestern (Dallas)

Public Health Research at the Center for Disease Control (Atlanta, Georgia)

Teaching jobs with College Possible (Twin Cities, Milwaukee, Omaha, & Portland)

Research in all areas (neuro, micro, cell, biochem, ecology, phys, genetics); Hope College, Holland, Michigan

Research in all areas, e.g., biochem, cell, ecology, neurobiology, virology; U Wisconsin, Madison

Plant Pathology, Entomology, Horticulture Research, Cornell University (Geneva, New York)

Ecology, Conservation, Biodiversity Research, Harvard Forest (western Massachusetts)

Coastal Marine Research, Duke University (Beaufort, North Carolina)

Science internships (paid) with US Home Security/Oak Ridge National Laboratory (sites throughout the US)

Teaching Internships with Breakthrough St. Paul (Paid)

Amgen Scholars Program (research at universities around the US and UK)

Biomedical research, University of Alabama, Birmingham

Science and technology research at U California, Berkeley

Biology research (many areas) at Marquette University, Milwaukee