However, students may petition to alter this plan so that they may be off during Freshman, Senior, or sophomore Summer During all terms, students are permitted to choose between studying on-campus, studying at an off-campus program, or taking a term off for vacation, outside internships, or research projects.
International internships are growing.
The DYO Program is an opportunity for students to apply their summer work study funds to an internship outside of Tompkins County.
Boeing prefers to hire students with demonstrated experience in their field, either through outside work, an internship, or a relevant project while at school.
"Judy brought together a great team of scientists, all amazing and all doing such great PhD work, but outside of the internship, it's difficult to get that information out to the public," Marion explained.
Of these 256 interventions, 55 (21.5%) were by foreign doctors who had had their internship outside the country.
Student jobs and internships outside of Ithaca and Tompkins County are posted on the Cornell Handshake system, except for most jobs with summer camps, which are available at the Student Employment Services site below.
Private foundations and national laboratories offer similar internships outside the REU framework.
Andringa is one of a small but growing cohort of scientists who take time off from postdocs to complete internships outside of academia.
One sign that postdocs are broadening their career training was that a greater proportion of respondents (9%) had sought internships outside of higher education in 2013 (up from 5% in 2011).
In its latest survey of postdocs, Vitae, an organization based in Cambridge that supports the career development of U.K. research staff, found that 9% of respondents have done placements or internships outside of academia, up from 5% just 2 years earlier.
