Are you a life science or bio-engineering major interested in philosophy, politics, history, and literature?  Are you a humanities major who also dabbles in biochemistry, molecular biology, endocrinology, or neuroscience?  Are you interested in exploring how the sciences and the humanities are together generating new areas of research? 

The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is looking for undergraduate interns to work with its Bio-humanities research group for the academic year 2016–2017. 

The IPRH-Mellon Bio-Humanities Research Group is composed of professors, post-doctoral scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates who aim to appropriate findings in the life sciences to re-imagine what humans are and to reconfigure our understanding of society and culture. 

The research group seeks three undergraduate interns who will work with the group on their seminars, workshops, and programs.  Interns will also work with the research group director, Associate Professor Samantha Frost, to develop their own research projects as well as a research symposium for undergraduates at the end of the spring semester.  Interns will work approximately 10 to 11 hours per week, paid at the rate of $15.75 per hour (up to $5000/year), and will have up to $600 to support their research.  

View detailed eligibility requirements and application guidelines at the IPRH website at http://www.iprh.illinois.edu/fellowships/mellon/undergraduate.html.

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Questions about this internship opportunity may be addressed to IPRH Associate Director Nancy Castro at ncastro@illinois.edu or (217) 244-7913. 

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