Professional Internships

In pursuit of the Boston College tradition of education as instrument, Presidential Scholars work in demanding professional settings during the summer following their junior year. The internship provides Scholars with an initial exposure to a potential career path, and the opportunity to reflect on themselves as emerging professionals and leaders. Scholars spend six weeks at their placements, where they are expected to function as full-time employees. Supervisors are encouraged to assign tasks that allow Scholars to work creatively and independently, and to provide them with as broad an overview as possible. In tandem with their practical work experience, Scholars develop:

• a global awareness of the nature of the organization, the relationship between its goals and its internal structure
• the nature of organizational leadership; the prevailing model of leadership and how this is reflected in its approach to professional development
• the ways in which decisions are made, policies forged, and responsibilities delegated
• how the organization relates to the wider society as well as to consider the meaning of work in Scholars' lives by exploring aspects of the spirituality of work

Below is a sampling of internships for Presidential Scholars

Summer of 2007
Internship reports are available on-line -- a password from Jennie Thomas is required.

• Intern, Coins & Metals Department, British Museum, London, England
• Intern, Square Peg Design, Singapore
• Intern, Transportation Logistics, Andersen Windows and Doors, Minneapolis, MN
• Intern, Office of Political Affairs, Mexican Embassy, Washington, DC
• Intern, Urban Ecology Institute, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA AND Haley House, Boston, MA
  
• Intern, ACLU's National Legal Department, New York, NY
• Iowa Summer Writing Festival, Iowa City, Iowa
• Medical Intern, Para El Mundo Medical Clinic, Mancora, Peru
• Intern, Editorial Department, Perfil Editorial Noticias (news magazine), and Luz (fashion & beauty magazine), Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Intern, Grameen Bank & Grameen Trust, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Intern Curator, Department of Asia, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
• Intern, The Teran Foundation, The College of Tourism & Agriculture, Cabaceira Grande, Mozambique
• Assistant to the head of the Politico-Military Research Office, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Osh, Kyrgyzstan
• Intern, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
• Intern, Office of the Secretariat for the Ecumenical and Inter-religious Affairs, US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, DC
  
• Teacher, The Breakthrough Collaborative,
  Fort Lauderdale, FL
• Intern, Mod Green Pod, Boston, MA
  

Summer of 2006 

Internship reports are available on-line—a password from Jennie Thomas is required.

• Summer Intern, PCCW Ltd., Legal Department, Hong Kong
• Intern, The Bellagio Forum for Sustainable Development, Osnabruck, Germany
• Intern, Center for the Support of Women and Children, Puno, Peru
• Research Assistant to Prof. Christopher Ricks, Boston University, Boston, MA
  AND
  Virginia Woolf Conference, Birmingham, England
  AND
  Research Assistant, Prof. Dayton Haskin, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
• Technology Analyst, Goldman Sachs, New York, NY
• Research Intern, Center for Future Security Strategies, Hudson Institute, Washington, DC
• Musician – will collaborate with other musicians to write, mix and record a CD, New Orleans, LA
  AND
  Student, School for Improvisational Music, NY, NY
• Intern, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
• ESL Teacher and Journalism intern, Projects Abroad, Guadalajara, Mexico
• Editorial Intern, W.W. Norton and Company, New York, NY
• Research Assistant, National Institute for Health, Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism Division, Dr. Richard Veech’s Laboratory of Metabolic Control, Washington, DC
• Professional Musical Theater Workshop, The Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY
  AND
  Intern, The Eugene O’Neill Conferences Center, Waterford, CT
• Intern, CARECEN – A nonprofit humanitarian organization, San Salvador, El Salvador
• Medical Intern
  Student Health and Welfare Centres Organization Mobile Health Clinic, Cape Town, South Africa
  AND
  Intern
  Absolute Return for Kids (NGO that promotes the welfare of children affected by AIDS
  Cape Town, South Africa
  AND
  Medical Intern, International Service Learning, Dares Salaam, Tanzania
  AND
  Attendee, International HIV/AIDS Conference, Toronto, Canada
• Intern
  Global Portfolio Management
  Corporate Banking
  Citigroup
  New York, NY
  
• Administrative Assistant, Philosophy Summer Course taught at the American College in Greece by Prof. John Manoussakis and to the Annual Philosophy Athens Summer International Conference
  AND
  Intern to Prof. Richard Kearney to help organize a philosophical & inter-faith theologoical conference in May to take place in Bangalore, India—summer internship will take place in West Cork, Ireland

Summer of 2005
Internship reports are available on-line—a password from Jennie Thomas is required

• Summer Credit Risk Analyst, Deutsche Bank, New York, NY
• Summer Analyst, UBS Investment Bank, Health Care Group Division, New York, NY
• Developing the Screenplay – Dramatic Writing Course, Tisch School of Arts, New York University, New York, NY
• Teaching Assistant, PROMYS (Intensive Mathematics Program), Boston University, Boston, MA
• Intern, Office of U.S. Representative Jim Ramstad, Minnesota’s Third District Representative, Washington, DC
• Research Assistant, Dr. Steve Bruner, Chemistry Department, Boston College, Chestnut, MA
• Intern, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal, For the former Yugoslavia at the Hague, The Netherlands
• Intern, Indicorps, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
• Summer Analyst, Investment Banking Division, Citicorp, New York, NY
• Intensive Italian Language Study & Intern, Art Museum or Gallery, Florence, Italy
• Primate Care Volunteer, The Centre for Animal Rehabilitation and Education, South Africa
• Business Analyst, Accenture Consulting, Boston, MA
• Research Assistant, New England Public Policy Center, The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, MA

Summer of 2004
Internship reports are available.

• Boston 2004, Democratic National Convention, Boston, MA
• Research Assistant, Prof. Larry Scott, Chemistry Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
• Intern, Rapid Response to Prison Brutality Project, Massachusetts Correction Legal Services, Boston, MA
• Lab Assistant, Prof. Larry McLaughlin, Biochemistry Dept., Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
  AND
  Student Medical Relief Assistant, Center for International Service Learning, Trinidad and Guyana
• Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Washington, DC
• Research Assistant, Prof. Robert Signorile, Computer Science Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
• Clinical Research Assistant, Emergency Department, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN
  AND
  Research Assistant, Prof. Stephen Wicks, Biology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
• Lab Assistant, Prof. Mary Roberts, Biochemistry Dept., Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
• Intern, Urban Ecology Institute, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
• Intern, XPlana Learning (a creative design & multimedia software development agency), Newbury Street, Boston, MA
• Lab Assistant, Dr. Dennis Selkoe, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
• Student Medical Relief Assistant, The Center for International Service Learning for the Academic Community, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
  AND
  Research Intern, Acute Psychiatry Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Summer of 2003 :

• Iowa Summer Writing Festival, University of Iowa, IA
  
• Boston Adult Literacy Fund, Boston, MA
  
• Research Internship for Prof. Virginia Reinburg on "Early Modern French History Research,"
  Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France
  
• Arms Control Association, Washington, DC
  
• Law Offices of Chaz R. Fisher, Inc., Boston, MA
  
• Investment Banking Internship at Citigroup's Global Corporate & Investment Bank, New York, NY
• Neurological Sciences Division, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke National Institute of Health, Washington, DC
• The University of Maryland Leadership Institute, College Park, MD
• Research Internship for Profs. Amir Hoveyda and Janine Cossy,
  Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, Paris, France
• The Catholic New World Newspaper, Chicago, IL
• Policy Office of Thomas Finneran, Speaker of the House, Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
  Boston, MA
• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA
• Research Experience for Undergraduates Program, National Science Foundation,
  Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
  

Summer of 2002:

• Structural Neuroscience Laboratory, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA
  
• The Tablet, London, England
  
• Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Washington, DC
  
• Institute for Popular Music, Liverpool, England
  
• Sesame Street, New York, NY
  
• US Embassy, Mexico City, Mexico
  
• Gabelli Asset Management, Rye, New York
  
• La Plaza, WGBH, Boston, MA
  
• Federal Reserve Bank, Research Department, Boston, MA
  
• Sackler School of Graduate BioMedical Sciences, Tufts University
  
• Engalitcheff Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Summer of 2001:

• Amnesty International, New York, NY
  
• Summerbridge, Hong Kong, China
  
• Toplum Sorunlarini Arastirma Merkezi (TOSAM), Ankara, Turkey
  
• Actors' Theater of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
  
• Haley House, Inc., Boston, MA
  
• Department of Philosophy, Boston College, Journal "Religion & the Arts," Chestnut Hill, MA
  
• University of Alabama Medical School, Birmingham, Alabama
  
• District Offices of Congressman Clay Shaw, Fort Lauderdale, FL
  
• New York Editorial Office, Cambridge University Press, New York, NY
  
• House of Representatives, Washington, DC
  
• MauroNewMedia, New York, NY

Summer of 2000:

• Lutheran Social Services, Jacksonville, FL
  
• The Atlantic Monthly, Boston, MA
  
• Office of Chemical, Biological and Missile Nonproliferation, Bureau of Nonproliferation, US Department of State, Washington, DC
  
• Intel Corporate Research Laboratories, Santa Clara, CA
  
• Department of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
  
• US Embassy, Athens, Greece
  
• International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, England
  
• Oxfam America, Boston, MA
  
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, MA
  
• Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA