Summer Internships and Other Opportunities

Finding Opportunities

Announcements of summer internships and programs are circulated regularly via the department e-mail. Sometimes, you may also see a poster posted on a wall or door in the statistics department. Some faculty like placing posters outside their door, so it helps to go for a walk around the department every now and then. More active methods include contacting people at institutions that you may find interesting. The department's alumni directory is an excellent resource for this.

Internships

Public Institutions

I spent two summers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, participating in their Graduate Research Assitant program. I got connected with the program by a professor in the department, who was familiar with my research interests. He knew a scientist at the laboratory with similar interests and put the two of us in touch.

-- VinceVu - 13 Feb 2007

Private Industry

As mentioned above, e-mails about internships will frequently arrive in your @stat.berkeley.edu mailbox. Some example industries are: biotech, finance, and technology. In the past grad students have worked at companies such as Genentech, Lehman Brothers, and IBM.

Institutional Programs/Courses

Domestic

Abroad

• JSPS Summer Program: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Summer Program
• NSF EAPSI: NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students

-- VinceVu - 11 Jan 2007