Gain valuable experience in the real world of science communication by spending a summer working with the Public Affairs Department at Fermilab. With the support of a National Science Foundation grant, you'll spend time at one of the most exciting laboratories in the world, working with a team of public relations professionals to convey the fascination of high energy physics research to the general public. You'll interact with scientists, engineers and educators from around the world and will come away with real accomplishments in a variety of areas such as journalism, design and social studies. Science and technology are everywhere today. You can be on the cutting edge !

Some of the projects in which you can participate are...

• Writing press releases and articles for Fermilab web sites and journals such as Fermilab Today and FermiNews.
  NPR science correspondent, David Kestenbaum, got his start as a Fermilab intern.
  
  
• Helping in the design of web sites like www.interactions.org
  
  
• Designing and building visitor sites at Fermilab experiments and computing facilities.
  
  
• Performing studies of the social dynamics of large, international collaborations.

Location: The internship will be based at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois - about 30 minutes from Chicago. Take a virtual tour of the lab here.

Financial Support: Students chosen for the program will be paid a stipend of $3000 plus an allowance for travel to the lab and back as well as transportation while on site. Housing at Fermilab for the length of the program will also be provided.

Schedule: The program will run from
early June to mid-August, 2005

The Columbia-Fermilab Science Communications Summer Internships are open to all Columbia and Barnard students.

Please submit the following information to Prof. Evans

• Name (first,last)
• E-mail address
• US citizen / permanent resident / visa status
• Gender (optional>
• Minority status (optional)
• Year of current study - Freshman, Sophmore, Junior, Senior
• Major
• A sample of your writing on a scientific topic
  The subject and length of this piece should be similar to that required for the Physics for Poets Optional Term Paper.
  Physics for Poets students may use their (present or past) term papers.

Applicants will be judged on the quality of the writing sample they submit.

Application Deadline: TBA, 2006

• Summer 2005
• Summer 2004