The diversity of possible internship placements runs the gamut of your Liberal Arts education and career aspirations! From investment banking to social work and counseling, to law, athletic training, lab research, art conservation, teaching and public relations, we’ve got you covered. Talk to our Academic Director about the type of placement you'd like to explore and how you might develop your skill set and understand organizational procedures in your field of choice. Here are some samples of recent placements that our students have had:
Urban League of Philadelphia: The National Urban League is a historic civil rights and urban advocacy organization with affiliates serving 300 communities, providing direct services that impact and improve the lives of more than two million people nationwide. Since 1917, the Urban League of Philadelphia has worked to forward their mission to empower African Americans and other underserved people to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights. Their mission is defined by the ABC’s: Advocacy & Policy, Business & Talent Diversity, and Community & Economic Development. Their main focus is on the following areas:
Workforce Development: The Urban League connects career seekers to skills development and career opportunities, as well as connecting local businesses to quality talent from a diverse pool of candidates.
Entrepreneurship Center: The Urban League Entrepreneurship Center provides technical assistance, strategic planning and links to resources to help small businesses grow their financial and human capital.
Health & Wellness: The Urban League’s Health and Wellness program is designed to educate and empower local communities to adopt healthy lifestyles.
Housing Counseling: Everyone has the right to safe, stable, and affordable housing. Dedicated housing counselors work to build and retain equity in communities, ensuring that first-time homeowners have the right tools and access to the housing market — and that families working to avoid foreclosure have the resources to do so.
Computer Science and Data Science: Faculty and students work together with others to develop new ideas and new solutions. Key interdisciplinary centers include the Warren Center for Network and Data Science, the Penn Center for Health, Devices, and Technology (bridging to Bioengineering and the Perelman School for Medicine), and the Institute for Biomedical Informatics (also bridging to the data-driven parts of the Perelman School for Medicine).
Computer and Information Science: Penn Engineering is the birthplace of the modern computer. It was here that the ENIAC, the world’s first electronic, large-scale, general-purpose digital computer, was developed in 1946. Since this auspicious beginning more than five decades ago, the field of computer science at Penn has been marked by exciting innovations.
Department of Bioengineering: UPenn is home to one of the oldest and most successful bioengineering departments in the United States. Their bioengineering capitalizes on Penn’s institutional strengths, including a compact urban campus of 12 separate schools, geographic proximity linking the engineering and medical schools within one city block, and a collaborative, integrated environment that allows students and faculty to transcend disciplines with curricula, research, technology, and patient care.
School of Engineering: Penn Engineers play a critical role in posing and answering the questions that will improve lives and transform our world. Students are taught to think like engineers through opportunities to approach and solve relevant challenges in new and unique ways. World-acclaimed faculty, state-of-the-art research laboratories and highly interdisciplinary curricula offer an experience that is unparalleled. Innovation and technology drives every program and transforms the fundamentals of what future engineers are learning.
Abramson Cancer Center: Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer Center is a world leader in cancer research, patient care and education. Their preeminent position is reflected in our continuous designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) since 1973, one of 51 such centers in the United States. Their clinical program currently sees 305,248 outpatient visits and more than 10,230 discharges, and provides more than 81,471 chemotherapy and 66,110 radiation treatments.
Center for Excellence in Environmental Toxicology: The CEET is one of only twenty designated Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers in the nation. CEET prides itself in working with Communities within the region to help identify environmental health questions of concern and mobilizing the research expertise of the Center to answer those questions. CEET is a flexible entity that marshals excellence in basic, translational, patient-oriented and population-based research to facilitate an integrative approach to environmental health/medicine. The CEET has flexible thematic areas in: Air Pollution & Lung Health, Environmental Exposures & Cancer, Windows-of-Susceptibility and Environmental Neuroscience. Each thematic area integrates the pillars of exposure science, adverse outcomes with translation to communities and human subjects. This structure facilitates team science on fundamental questions and translation of findings to improve people’s lives. The exposures of concern can be those raised by community partners making the CEET’s goal to translate findings to improve environmental health in vulnerable populations or individuals in Precision Public Health.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
The Division of Child Neurology: Each year, more than 25,000 children suffering from disorders related to the nervous system seek care at the Division of Neurology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), one of the largest and most comprehensive pediatric neurology programs in the world. They provide expert clinical care for children with conditions ranging from epilepsy, headache, muscle and nerve disorders, critical illness, multiple sclerosis, leukodystrophies and pediatric stroke, among others.
The Orphan Disease Center works on developing transformative therapies using platform technologies that can be deployed across multiple rare diseases. They place emphasis on disorders with substantial unmet need independent of their incidence and strive to assure access to patients of all populations.
Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Program: The Blood and Marrow Transplant Program serves the needs of children who require a blood or marrow transplant to replace stem cells to treat their illness. Transplant is a treatment for a variety of diseases including certain types of pediatric cancer, disorders of the blood and immune system (the system that fights infection) as well as a wide variety of other rare disorders and syndromes.
MDS Curative therapies Center (cell therapy & transplant section): The Sickle Cell and Red Cell Disorders Curative Therapy Center (CuRED) offers integrated and coordinated care from multiple pediatric specialists for children with sickle cell disease, thalassemia, and other red cell disorders. The CuRED team provides comprehensive evaluation and cutting-edge treatment that is customized to each patient and family, and guides children from management of a chronic disease to exploring the potential for a curative therapy.
Division of Oncology Psychosocial Services: The Oncology Psychosocial Services Program is staffed by an expert team of psychologists, social workers, child-life specialists, creative arts therapists, chaplains and teachers who support cancer patients, families and medical staff at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Very Rare Malignant Tumors Program: The Very Rare Malignant Tumors Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is a highly collaborative program that draws on the expertise of many types of specialists in pediatrics, such as radiation oncologists, orthopedic surgeons, geneticists and dermatologists, as well as oncologists from at the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania who treat adult patients. This program aims to advance the care of patients with these tumors by using cancer genomics to identify targetable mutations.
Stress Neurobiology Group: The Division of Stress Neurobiology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is composed of a group of affiliated researchers with the common goal of understanding how stress impacts on psychological and physical health. The long-term goal of the Stress Neurobiology Research Program is to understand why some individuals are vulnerable or resilient to the potentially adverse effects of chronic stress. Chronic stress is a critical factor contributing to the development of affective and anxiety disorders and can precipitate relapse of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This intimate association between repeated/chronic stress and affective and anxiety disorders underscores the need to fully understand the neural circuitry that regulates the physiological and behavioral consequences of repeated stress.
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care: The research mission of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine is to develop new knowledge, diagnostics, and therapeutics that improve the care of children with critical illnesses, painful conditions, and those undergoing anesthesia-sedation, and to develop academic careers of faculty and trainees in pediatric anesthesiology and critical care medicine. The Department conducts laboratory, translational, and clinical research that is broadly related to pediatric perioperative medicine and critical care, including acute and chronic cardiovascular diseases, airway management, lung injury, sepsis and inflammation, acute neurological conditions, acute and chronic pain conditions, pharmacology and pharmacogenetics, medical technologies, and safety/quality.
The Clay Studio: The Clay Studio inspires curiosity and discovery around the art and craft of clay, drawing together students, artists, and an engaged public into a welcoming community. Every day, in classrooms, studios, galleries, and neighborhoods, Clay Studio deepens the connection between people and clay with the highest quality programs and exhibitions. Founded in 1974, The Clay Studio continues in the belief that shared creativity, so fundamental to humanity, is a critical force for good.
Drexel University College of Medicine
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies: The Division of Biomedical Science Programs is home to the Graduate School's research-intensive MS and PhD programs. We offer state-of-the-art research training in biochemistry, biotechnology, cancer biology, pharmacology, neuroscience, microbiology, immunology, molecular biology, cell biology and genetics.
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology: The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is dedicated to the education of medical and graduate students in biochemistry, molecular biology and nutrition, research training in these areas, and discovery through cutting-edge research in the broad discipline of biochemistry. Biochemistry research is globally directed toward understanding cellular processes at the molecular level, and has traditionally encompassed studies of biomolecules such as proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids.
Microbiology and Immunology: Extraordinary research opportunities are available within the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and collaborative research units including the Division of Infectious Disease and HIV Medicine in the areas of: Immunology Molecular and human genetics, Virology Malarial and bacterial pathogenesis, Emerging disease and biodefense, Opportunistic infections, Experimental therapeutics and diagnostics, Neuroscience, and Cancer biology. Continued advances in technology and collaborative interdisciplinary research between basic and clinical scientists will be the key to innovation and new discovery in the next decade. Research conducted within the department will be of tremendous importance to the growing national and international health care needs.
Department of Community Health and Prevention: The Department of Community Health and Prevention promotes health through the scientific study of communities, examining the social, cultural, economic, and environmental factors that influence health at the neighborhood level.
Their work also focuses on the human rights and social justice aspects of public health. We are committed to securing the conditions that support population health.
Urban Health Collaborative: The mission of the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative is to improve health in cities by increasing scientific knowledge and public awareness of urban health challenges and opportunities, and by identifying and promoting actions and policies that improve population health and reduce health inequities. Much of health is influenced by the places where people live: their environment, their neighbors, and local social norms. It’s at this level where they can identify great potential for informed action to impact health. The UHC conducts research, disseminates evidence and builds capacity by partnering and exchanging information with the community, decision makers, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, and other academic institutions.
ESI Econsult Solutions, Inc.: ESI Center for the Future of Cities brings together experts in urban economics, policy, and strategy to craft new evidence-based research on the most pressing issues facing cities around the world. ESI provides economic consulting and analytical services for businesses, governments, and non-profit organizations alike in a wide range of industries. As a multidisciplinary firm and through years of collective experience, they are able to offer strategic insights and analysis applicable to a number of domains. ESI provides economic consulting and analytical services for businesses, governments, and non-profit organizations alike in a wide range of industries. As a multidisciplinary firm and through collective experience, they are able to offer strategic insights and analysis applicable to a number of domains.
Support Center for Child Advocates: The Support Center’s mission is to advocate for victims of child abuse and neglect with the goal of securing safety, justice, well-being and a permanent, nurturing environment for every child. For more than four decades, Child Advocates has served children who have experienced abuse or neglect by securing social services, finding alternative homes, and helping them testify in court. For all of the children committed to their care, they work to ensure safety, health, education, family permanency and access to justice. Whenever possible, Child Advocates seeks to maintain children and families in their own homes. Assigned attorneys and social workers have moved public systems to deliver entitled services and private providers to open their doors to child clients and their families.
Clean Water Action: Since their founding during the landmark Clean Water Act in 1972, Clean Water Action has worked to win strong health and environmental protections by bringing issue expertise, solution-oriented thinking, and people power to the table, often via civic engagement and elections in Pennsylvania. Clean Water Action builds grassroots strength in Pennsylvania to impact environmental policy in Washington, D.C., in Harrisburg, and at home in Philadelphia’s communities.
Thomas Jefferson University Center for Translational Medicine: The Center for Translational Medicine (CTM) aims to bridge basic scientific discoveries with physicians' needs for their patients. At the forefront of academic health care, the Center focuses on cutting-edge basic molecular biomedical research and its translation into the most efficient and tailored forms of diagnosis and treatment as well as modes of prevention.