Internships

Internship Opportunities

Macalester’s urban location provides nearly endless internship opportunities for students. In the past five years, more than 100 Mac Bio students have done internships at more than eighty different sites.

Internship sites currently accepting applications are:

• Wilderness Inquiry
• SciTechsperience
• Conservancy of Southwest Florida
• Earth Dance Farm
• Minnesota Memory Project – Clinical Research
• Minnesota Memory Project – Pre-Clinical Neuroscience Research
• St. Paul’s School
• Annie’s, Inc. – Product Innovation Intern
• Annie’s, Inc. – Sustainability Intern
• National Trout Center
• City of Bellevue
• Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness
• Hennepin County – Forestry Technician Intern
• Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota
• Regions Hospital
• The Food Group
• Second Harvest Heartland

Job sites currently Accepting Applications:

• Rural Development Specialist – Environmental
• The Marine Mammal Center
• Society for Women’s Health Research

A sampling of some previous internship sites includes:

• MN Dept of Human Services
• 3M BioMaterials Technology Ctr.
• MN Dept of Agriculture
• Family Tree Clinic
• Abbott Northwestern Hospital
• Mayo Clinic
• American Lung Association MN
• American Red Cross-St. Paul
• Minnesota Department of Health
• Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources
• Minnesota Department of Health
• Doris Duke Conservation Scholars
• Loomis Chaffee
• Mississippi Park Connection
• Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA)
• Callaway Gardens
• Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota
• National Science Foundation
• Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever
• Sustane Natural Fertilizer
• City of Minneapolis Local Food Policy
• Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship
• Minneapolis VA
• Second Harvest Heartland
• Minnesota Corn Grower’s Association
• Northfield Mount Hermon Summer Session
• Charles R. Drew University Cancer Research (UCLA)
• Regions Hospital Emergency Department
• Cedar Creek Natural History Area
• Como Park Zoo & Conservatory
• The Raptor Center
• Doge Nature Center
• Fairview Riverside Women’s Clinic
• Women’s Environmental Institute
• Science Museum of Minnesota
• Conservation Minnesota
• Pollen Midwest
• Sanimax