Research and Internship Opportunities at OHIO

Internships

Why Do an Internship?

Internships can be defined as a work experience related to your academic interests or professional goals. Internships are a very important step in your career development process, allowing you to apply your classroom experience to the real world and explore different work settings you may be qualified for upon graduation. Internships provide the opportunity to determine your interest in various career fields and develop marketable skills. Internships are also advantageous in the job search process as many employers seek out students who have completed an internship experience.

Things to Consider

Skills & experiences to develop
Location
Paid vs. unpaid
Credit vs. no credit
Dates/Quarter
Housing

Finding an Internship

Academic department
Internships are typically coordinated through academic departments. Be sure to visit your academic advisor or the appropriate internship coordinator within your major. These individuals can typically be found on the department's web site or by visiting your major's main office. Some majors and departments do not have a designated internship coordinator. The Office of Career Services is happy to supplement your internship search.

Bobcat CareerLink
Bobcat CareerLink is Career Services' online job posting resource. Students of any major may log
on to view internship positions. Some internship positions will allow you to apply through the site
and may be planning to interview through the On- Campus Recruiting program. You may also
upload and publish your resume into the resume book to make it accessible to employers. Be sure
to use the Bobcat CareerLink student help guide to learn how to navigate the system.

Career & Internship Fair
The Office of Career Services holds two annual Career & Internship Fairs, one in October and one
in February. Employers do come to these career fairs to recruit interns. Be sure to take advantage
of this opportunity. To learn more about the career and internship fair use the career fair etiquette
handout and attend the Career Fair or Bust workshop that usually takes place the week before the
Career & Internship Fair.

The Scripps College of Communication offers nearly 3,000 internship opportunities at companies such as The TODAY Show, Procter & Gamble, National Geographic, NBC, CNN, The Wall Street Journal and WSJ.com, The Ohio News Network, The Cincinnati Post, The Miss Universe Organization, The Columbus Dispatch, The Cleveland Clinic and The Cincinnati Enquirer.

The Center for International Studies also offers a number of internship options including companies such as the Latin American Press, Asian Institute for Development Communication, Radio Index from MIT, and many more. For a full list of opportunities please see The Center for International Studies

Biotechnology Research

Edison Biotechnology Institute (EBI)

An interdisciplinary research institute of Ohio University established in 1984, the Edison Biotechnology Institute (EBI) has a dual mission.

Basic discovery research and development of new technology and
The transfer of technology to the private sector for economic benefit in Ohio

We seek to understand the molecular/genetic basis of diseases that disproportionately affect the people of Appalachian Ohio and that also are major worldwide challenges. EBI investigators pursue internationally recognized research programs in:

Growth disorders
Diabetes, obesity and related cardiovascular complications
Autoimmune/inflammatory diseases
Aging
Infectious diseases
Cancer

Through our increased understanding of these diseases, we develop diagnostics and therapeutics for health care.
The institute provides a rich interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial environment in which to study diseases from multiple perspectives. Faculty in our research center come from three academic colleges - Osteopathic Medicine, Arts & Sciences and Engineering. EBI's unique environment allows our investigators to establish a wide network of collaborators both within and outside the university community.

EBI fosters a rich interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial environment. Our research team combines an excitement in basic discovery with a disciplined, practical interest in how their discoveries can benefit human health and create new businesses. This unusual combination is key to our continued success.

An interdisciplinary environment sparks ideas and yields results

EBI has a long history of interdisciplinary collaboration. Our founding scientists were specialists in chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology. Their unusual ability to combine techniques and knowledge from different disciplines established EBI's reputation for meaningful discovery.

Globally, work that crosses traditional academic boundaries has helped spawn the latest biomedical revolution. In many cases, the current approach to identifying novel compounds for treating disease is entirely interdisciplinary. From molecular target identification through drug design and delivery, each step of the process may involve a wide range of experts: molecular biologists, cell biologists, geneticists, organic chemists, computational chemists, biophysicists, immunologists, physiologists, engineers and others.

Such interdisciplinary efforts will continue to fuel biomedicine. EBI's commitment to a collaborative and systems-based model aligns the institute with the present and future of scientific investigation.

An entrepreneurial environment applies technology to create new products, companies and jobs

At EBI, we use state-of-the-art science to pursue new basic knowledge and to broaden understanding of health and illness - but we also want to see our ideas put to use. In other words, we want to see the information and solutions that we generate become new, useful biomedical products that improve people's lives.
EBI's early leaders recognized the potential of entrepreneurism coupled with science- long before most academic environments embraced the concept. We at EBI believe it is a natural and logical evolution of what has always been the hallmark of academia - ideas, innovation, creativity, generation of new knowledge - to participate in the knowledge-based economy of today. Almost overnight, the academy has been transformed from an "ivory tower" isolated from economic progress to the center of many technological advances.
Complementary research themes create synergy

In evolving the institute's approach to scientific investigation, we have become a larger, more broadly based research entity whose focus is biomedical diagnostics and therapeutics. To achieve this end, we've selected a group of research themes which our investigators pursue both individually, in collaboration with one another and in conjunction with other academic and corporate partners.

Educational Opportunities and Career Trends

Universities are both storehouses and creators of knowledge. The academy balances between preserving a wealth of existing information and building new, valuable wisdom. How can science scholars leverage so much information, so many perspectives?

The interdisciplinary trend

Cross-disciplinary science is the emerging, logical outgrowth of burgeoning information - an approach critical for solving complex, modern biomedical problems. Focused research in molecular biology yields results, but interdisciplinary work promises more rapid progress and advances. By studying the interaction of many levels of biological information, we better understand how they work together in relation to human immunity and disease.
Interdisciplinary competencies are becoming more and more important to research and education. The National Institutes of Health recently noted a need for "a workforce capable of crossing disciplinary boundaries and leading and participating in integrative and team approaches to complex biomedical and health problems."

If this is the direction that research is moving, people need to be trained to work in this type of environment. Interdisciplinary team engagement encourages broader thinking, flexibility and wider learning. Ohio University graduates must grasp this cross-disciplinary perspective to contribute in private-sector or academic organizations.
From EBI's founders to our current investigators, interdisciplinary vision underpins our reputation for meaningful discovery.

Like our principal investigators, students benefit from the interdisciplinary research teams that contribute to our success. For example, graduate and undergraduate students participate in research initiatives in the BioMolecular Innovation and Technology Partnership (BMIT), a collaboration between faculty from EBI and the colleges of engineering, arts and sciences, health and human services and osteopathic medicine. They also may participate in the interdisciplinary Molecular and Cellular Biology graduate program that offers opportunities in a broad range of research areas, and in the growing biomedical engineering program.

EBI's on-going commitment to bioscience education benefits the university, the institute, students and graduates. Our students' experiences also fuel commercial, academic and clinical development of biotechnology in Ohio.