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funding to helpmake thempossible for students on both campuses.
These internship programs—ARIEL (Award for Relating Intense
Education to Life) in Santa Fe andHodson in Annapolis—provide
merit-based stipends for substantial, full-time internships each
summer. Interested students identify an internship opportunity,
either with the help of Career Services or on their own, and submit a
proposal for consideration. Selected students receive a stipend award
and present a report on their experience at the end of the summer.
ARIEL and Hodson internships have helped students
gain experience in everything from public service to the arts and
sciences. Some students receive multiple internship awards. One
recently worked in a laboratory at the City of Hope Cancer Center in
Los Angeles one year and at the University of Chicago Evolutionary
Ecology Laboratories’ Krietman Lab the next. Another held an
internship as a rock-climbing guide near Bend, Oregon, while others
have been awarded stipends to work at an Army hospital in rural
Alaska, at an organic farm in Iowa, with the Legal Aid Society in
New York City, and at the National Institutes of Health inMaryland.
With the experience and insight that internships offer, there may
be no better complement to a St. John’s education.
What are other examples of funded internships?
Conducting lin-
guistics research
with Wexler ab/
Normal Language
Lab at MIT
Working
with V-Day
International
to promote
awareness
of women’s
issues
Teaching
middle-school
math with
Breakthrough
Collaborative
Assisting
with lyric
translation
and music
writing for a
Broadway
production
Reading
and
critiquing
scripts for
television
shows in
Los Angeles
Doing home-
less youth
advocacy with
public schools
Shadowing
oncologists
and surgeons
at the Oregon
Health and
Science
University
Making
pottery at
an artist’s
studio