Internship News

 

When it comes to education and training for STEM careers after high school, not all students receive the support they need to succeed. A recently funded National Science Foundation grant hopes to remedy that for 64 low-income students in Oregon.
A recently funded National Science Foundation grant will provide support for 64 low-income students in Oregon.
KCGIP students, alumni and company partners enthusiastically gathered in real life for the 6th Annual Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program Inclusion Symposium on August 26th.
Thermo Fisher Scientific, a long-term partner of the Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program, has committed $20,000/year over the next 5 years
More than 200 participants connected virtually for the 2022 Genomics in Action (GIA) conference, on Jan. 26-28. The event featured the work of 16 guest speakers, an alumni panel, and virtual research poster sessions with current program students.
The success of the Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program’s Inclusion and Diversity Initiative is easy to recognize. Since the initiative’s launch in 2017, representation of women and underrepresented groups in KCGIP’s chemistry and physics tracks has increased by 2 1/2 times.
Materials science put their professional skills to use in September – from networking with corporate partners to showing off their interviewing skills. Find out where the materials science students will be interning this year.
Students in the bioinformatics and genomics track of the Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program are eager to begin their internships
The fifth annual symposium drew more than 70 students, staff, alumni and industry leaders for a virtual session
For the fifth year in a row, the UO has conferred the most master’s degrees in physics in the country. Twenty six of those were awarded to students in the Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program, part of the Phil & Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact.