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LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY
STUDENT INTERNSHIPS
Preuss Interns
Introduction
Increasingly, basic research institutions must reconsider how they are viewed by the general public as well as the scientific community to ensure they remain a competitive and valued resource. Key to establishing a reputation for groundbreaking research, in hand with increasing knowledge and improving human health through studies of the immune system, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology must concomitantly develop relationships that bring this mission into greater focus within their community. If we want the public to know us, we must know them, and offer ourselves as members of the community by virtue of our mutual interest.
Program Goals
Recognizing that scientists need to help ensure a continuous pipeline for future scientists in the schools, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology has developed an outreach program to reach the roots of science education in middle and high schools. Many middle and high school students are unaware of basic biomedical research as a career and the impacts that researchers have on the world. Our internship program is committed to the following goals:
1. Student interns learn how to formulate and test hypotheses.
2. Student interns prepare experiments and draw conclusions from those experiments.
3. Student interns learn to maintain laboratory notebooks and take part in regular lab meetings and group discussions.
4. Students have regular short meetings with their supervisor to discuss the intern's progress and to answer any questions.
5. Students will interview a researcher to complete required career information detail.
6. At the end of the program, students present their research projects to their teacher mentors, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology post doc lab members and families.
Another primary goal of the internship is to increase La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology post docs' understanding of teaching and learning. We hope that our post-docs will reflect upon their own learning process in order to devise instruction in the middle and high school student program. We also hope that the program will help both student interns and post-docs gain and improve their skills in the areas of leadership, management and communication.
Internship Program Eligibility
The program will be implemented as six to eight hours per week instruction/experience in the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology lab, and four hours per week required preparation through their own reading. Applicants must be San Diego County residents and have completed their most recent semester of middle- or high-school at a public or private school within San Diego County. In addition:
- Applicants must be at least 13 years of age;
- Applicants must have a minimum 3.0 GPA;
- Applicants must be able to commit to 6 hrs/wk for the duration of the program; and
- Applicants must be able to be responsible for their own transportation.
For more information, please contact Erin K. Righetti at (858) 752-6542, or email externalrelations@liai.org.