Questions tagged [internship]
A student or trainee who works, sometimes without pay, in order to gain work experience or satisfy requirements for a qualification.
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Taking an applied internship postponing the end of the PhD
I'm a PhD student in Europe, currently in my 3rd year of pure mathematics. It was supposed to be the final year of my studies before finding a position either in industry or in academy. However, the ...
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How much is an undergraduate student paid during fulltime internship in a research lab in India? [closed]
An 3rd year undergraduate computer science student is doing several months full time internship at a research lab in the university. What is an usual budget for such a student per month?
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Doing two summer research internships at the same time?
I have recently got into a weird situation, that I didn't think I would be in. First of all, I had applied for a paid research internship abroad (at a foreign university) some time ago. Due to covid ...
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Supervisor who accepted me for a research internship now says he doesn't know who I am
I've been accepted in a research internship. However, after I sent an email to my supervisor asking about some details, he told me that he has no idea about who I am, and that maybe I've been ...
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Tactfully asking research advisor for a break
I am an undergraduate STEM student in an Asian university. At the beginning of the semester, I had about 7 courses which is the usual workload we need to deal with, so I gave a 'semester research plan'...
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Have I offended my professor by applying to summer research at other universities?
Yesterday I applied to a bunch of internships and sent my professor a request for a recommendation letter. He denied me the request, and sent my request email, along with his reply, to everyone in the ...
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Does admission care about internships?
I have found on Reddit and other forums discussing factors that effect one's admission and it is often stated that research along with letters of recommendation from supervisors can play a huge role; ...
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Is it necessary to publish in a "research" internship? (undergraduate-junior)
I am currently in a research internship where the topic which has been given to me is quite new to me and I don't think I'll be able to produce anything "publishable" by the end of session (...
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My application is declined because of covid - true or false? [closed]
I am looking for an master's internship in Berlin in biology. (background in short: I am a student in another city's university, but because the lectures are online and I have a relative here, I moved ...
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How to put a research department of a university or an internship in the acknowledgments?
How can I put a research department of a university or an internship awarded into the acknowledgments section of a research paper?
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How to find internship or supervisors if not in academia?
I don't have a MSc in STEM, however I gained some professional experience in data-science, but outside of academia:
I coauthored a data-model at my former startup, described in a patent application ...
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Am I burning bridges if I am applying for an internship which I am likely to turn down even if I am accepted?
There is an internship opportunity at a prestigous institution, which I consider applying for. I do not yet have a job offer for the considered time period. I need a job/internship for financial ...
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How to find an internship place in a different city than my university is?
Long story short: I moved to Germany to do a Msc in molecular biology. Since corona, all my lectures and exams are online. Because of financial reasons, I decided to move to a different city (Berlin). ...
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I am a PhD candidate and I have been offered an internship that I want to take. My advisor objects. Should I take it anyway?
I am a PhD candidate in computer engineering. I've just finished my 2nd year. I finished all courses and passed the comprehensive exam. Currently working in a nice research project in collaboration ...
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Do I have to disclose the exchange program of participating student as funding in a paper?
I am currently writing a paper together with an exchange student of an international academic internship program. As it is common practice, I disclose the research grant, which funds my work. However, ...
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How should a high-school student approach professors in research institutions about research opportunities?
I am a high schooler who lives in the vicinity of many premier research institutions and am very interested in going into STEM. I know that I will have to ask a lot of professors to let me work under ...
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How should I email professors regarding online research during covid-19? [duplicate]
So I've been accepted into a masters program and there is this professor that I really want to get involved with hopefully as a research assistant. And since many if not most researches are being ...
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What should I write in the experience section of CV?
I have recently graduated with a BSc degree in Physics. I haven't had any internship before. Well, all internships last summer were cancelled because of covid. Now, I am applying for few internships ...
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Research Internship: Contacting Faculty or Student?
As an undergraduate student aiming for research internships is it better to E-Mail a faculty or a Postdoctoral/Ph.D. student for available research positions?
This is as professors are busy and many ...
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Postponing internship confirmation from Student end
I have received an exciting research internship offer from a professor but have simultaneously applied for certain funded research internship programs as well whose results I am awaiting.
I want to ...
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How to mention about my university's MOU with the university in which I'm applying for Research Internship?
My university has an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) with certain universities in which I am interested in applying for the position of research intern.
As I will be mailing professors of my domain ...
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Should I explain my grades in my cover letter?
I'm a sophomore undergrad and I'm thinking of applying to research interns in various labs for the following summer. I do not have an excellent GPA because my freshman year had been a mess due to ...
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Linking stackexchange account with answers that have cited papers without access while applying for research opportunities [duplicate]
I am a sophomore currently and was active pre-university on one of the daughter sites. While answering questions, I would reach upon specific research papers, paywalled. I broke through them
using ...
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I have read research paper of the professor to whom i want to apply for internship but cannot understand it fully
I am currently an undergraduate student, in the 3rd year of my 4-year computer science degree and I want to email a professor to do a research internship with them. I went to some of their research ...
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Should I mention an informal research intern in my CV?
I was doing an informal research intern in a research institution more than a year ago, and it's probably the only experience related to the scientific research during my undergraduate time. Basically ...
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Can I intern at my own company? [closed]
So I founded a company as a PhD student and I want to work on company products over the summer times. Do I take a leave of absence or can I take an internship at my own company during that time?
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Should I mention a cancelled research summer internship in my document? [duplicate]
I got the admission from Mitacs Globalink Research Internship last year, a research internship initiative in Canada, but it was cancelled due to Covid19. Now I am applying for my Master program in a ...
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Is it appropriate to "cite" random conversations as the inspiration for a research direction?
In my research internship report, I'm mentioning a successful deep learning experiment. I performed it because another researcher told me it gave them good results for a similar problem.
I need to ...
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Evaluating Internships [closed]
I'm an undergrad student and am confused as to how I would approach evaluating internships. In places like CS, it's easy to know that Google, Facebook, etc would be good places to intern. In other ...
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How should I include internship supervisor in my CV?
I am currently doing an unpaid summer internship at a Lab of particle physics and I want to apply for a paid internship to start in september. As I want to include this internship I'm currently doing ...
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Should I discuss with professor before joining research internship? [closed]
Hypothetically: a MS student, and have an offer for an internship related to what I've been academically working on. I know some information on the current projects of the people that work in the same ...
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Is it ethical / legal for a PhD student to advertise that he is awarding PhD degrees to other students that pay him 200 USD/month? [closed]
My question is based on the example of a startup.
I have come across a "company" which claims to be providing services in Quantum Computing. However, various features of this company sound ...
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Can a graduate student on a university stipend work a remote internship concurrently?
Due to the current public health situation, my graduate studies and research work have moved entirely online. I was offered a remote full-time internship for summer. Both being online, I am able to ...
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Working unofficially and unpaid after internship got cancelled, should one give full commitment if not intending to continue as a researcher?
I am an undergraduate student who has signed up for a 4 months internship at a Canadian university with the Mitacs global intern program.
The initial deal was to travel to the Canadian university ...
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French M2 research internship as a UK MSc student? [closed]
I'm planning on starting a UK MSc degree in September, but keen to get some research experience abroad.
I'm wondering if anyone knows if French universities/research labs would be accepting of a ...
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Is doing a research internship during MSc. studies worth exceeding the standard period of study?
Is doing a 3-6 months research internship during MSc. studies worth exceeding the standard period of study?
I am in my 3rd semester for my (course and thesis based) CS MSc. degree. The standard ...
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Do I have to acknowledge the company where I started a project when I later publish related research in college?
I completed an internship at a company. During the internship I worked on a generic and publically well-known problem statement and delivered its solution to the company.
After the internship, I ...
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Is it too late to ask the faculty for a summer research internship position?
I am wondering if it's too late to ask the faculty about the availability of a summer research internship position? When would be the best time for this?
More information as requested:
I am looking ...
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How do I salvage a 1-week old research internship offer, if possible?
I'm a pre-university individual.
About a week ago I cold-emailed university professors inquiring about interning at their biology research labs. A professor replied on the same day expressing ...
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Late followup for Internship Opportunity
About a week and a half ago I received an email from a mentor with whom I'd previously inquired about internship opportunities, informing me of possible projects I could join. I accidentally let it ...
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Finding a self-funded research internship for summer (international student) - any strategies?
I have read several questions for this topic, and haven't found one which is comprehensive enough for me and has all this factors that are unique to my case. I have won a special grant from an ...
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What should I reply to professor so that he will be convinced to provide me fund for international internship?
Professor replied me this:"To start with the practicalities, do you have funding to support a trip to the UK, or would you need financial support?"
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My internship is going to sponsor my bachelor's thesis (which will require more hours in the office). Should I ask for more money?
I have worked for the past year as an intern in a company that is partly based in my university. I have been receiving a scholarship for my work.
We agreed on how much time I was going to spend at ...
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Is it acceptable to write a report for one university mentioning unpublished research done in another?
Last year I got in touch with a professor by email. I was somewhat familiar with their topic, and very enthusiastic about working with them. I had a very positive exchange with them and did a call, ...
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Work History / Professional Experience Section of US Grad School Application - Listing Research Internships
I'm applying to biomedical sciences Ph.D. programs, and the applications typically allow me to type in my "Work History / Professional Experience."
I know that undergraduate research would not fall ...
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Can a professor do an internship?
Can a professor (let's say a math professor) do something like an internship at a tech company during the summer as a way to keep their industry skills sharp / relevant? Does anyone ever do this?
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Waiting with a lot of uncertainty [closed]
I have to choose between industry and academia (1 year left). I think the success of below two points according to me is a minimum qualification to get accepted for PhD. But I am afraid of total ...
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Options for research opportunity [closed]
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I am working as a faculty member in the CS department of engineering university of a South Asian country for the last couple of years. I have done my masters from another Asian country. ...
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Possible internship topics for a second year undergraduate student interested in astrophysics [closed]
My question is about a specific field.
I am currently studying as a second year undergraduate in BSc program and I am genuinely curious about the field of theoretical astrophysics. I accept, at this ...
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I did not earn my Master's degree. Do I mention it in my Ph.D. program and onwards and on my CV?
I started my terminal Master’s degree program in Fall 2017. My plan was to graduate Spring 2019, and if successful, enter a Ph.D. program Fall 2019. My Master’s program is a more general program and ...
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