Summer Internships for Students in Linguistics and Related Disciplines

There are several competitive internship programs for graduate and undergraduate linguistics students, particularly for students interested in cognitive science and computational linguistics. Many of the internships are funded by the National Science Foundation’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates program. Internships typically offer a stipend. Some offer living arrangements as well. They all offer wonderful experience in being a practicing linguist.

Montclair State Linguistics sent two students to internships last year: Ying Chen (MA candidate) went to Johns Hopkins, and Fanny Velandia (BA candidate) went to Penn.

Two websites that list different types of summer opportunities are:

Co-op/Internship Opportunities for 2009 in University-Based Research Positions

Research Internships and Summer Research Programs

In addition, the following institutions offer summer programs in linguistics and related disciplines:

Institution	webpage	Application deadline for 2009	Primarily for
U of Minnesota	U of M Center for Cognitive Sciences	February 6	juniors
LSA	LSA Summer Institute (UC Berkeley) Fellowships	February 17	All levels
UPitt	Center for Neuroscience Summer Undergraduate Research Training	February 18	Undergrad
USC	USC/Information Sciences Institute	Not yet posted	Both
Colorado State	Summer Program on Mind and Brain	March 1	Undergrad
UPenn	11^th Annual Undergraduate Summer Workshop	March 6	Undergrad
Northern Arizona U.	Summer 2009 Research in Social, Developmental, Health, and Cognitive Neuroscience	March 15	Undergrad
CAL	Center for Applied Linguistics Internships	March 20	Both
Indiana U	Indiana University Cognitive Science Program	Not yet posted for 2009	Undergrad
Eastern Mich U	The LinguistList	Open until filled	Undergrad
Johns Hopkins	Center for Language and Speech Processing	Not yet posted	juniors
Johns Hopkins	Human Language Technology Center of Excellence	Rolling	All levels
MicroSoft	MicroSoft Research Internship Opportunities	Not given	graduate

* Particularly interested in undergrads “who are first generation college students, or who are a member of an under-represented (in the sciences) minority group, such as Native American, Hispanic, African American, Native Alaskan, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and disabled students.”