Opportunities

This site will be updated on a regular basis with opportunities specific to undergraduate students.  Included will be events, seminars, internships, scholarship, jobs, and other opportunities.  If you would like to have items posted, please contact us at lhbailey@msu.edu or (517) 432-0732.

Events

Research

Seminars

The Tokyo University of Agriculture (TUA), through its partnerships with the MSU-TUA Linkage Program, the Bailey Scholars Program and CANR Study Abroad is pleased to announce an exciting summer opportunity for CANR students:  Organic Farming in Joetsu City, Japan.  Students will have first-hand field experience in organic cultivation of rice and vegetables at the TUA Organic Farm in Joetsu City, Niigata Prefecture.  Activities will include seeding, weeding, harvesting and marketing of vegetable crops.  Students will observe and interact with local Japanese farmers and will live with Japanese students at the university’s hostel.  Free-time will include social activities with other students and visits to a local hot springs resort. 

The program is scheduled to run Aug 1-19.  Students will spend 2 days in Tokyo prior to their 12 day farm practicum, with the opportunity to spend 3 additional days in Tokyo at the conclusion of their assignment.  The approximate program fee is $625.  This includes all housing in Japan, round trip train fare Tokyo-Joetsu, mandatory health insurance and meals at the farm.  Additional costs not covered by the program fee include airport transfers and meals while in Tokyo.  (This is estimated to be approximately $200).  Students’ airfare will be provided through joint scholarship funding from the MSU-TUA Linkage Program, the Bailey Scholars Program and CANR Study Abroad.  Participants will be responsible for the program fee and any additional expenses incurred. 

There are 3 openings for qualified CANR students.  Interested students should submit a 1 page essay outlining why they are interested in this program (how this program fits their academic, professional and/or personal goals) and why they are qualified to participate in this program.  Essays are due February 22 and should be submitted to Karen Springer at lhbailey@msu.edu.  Participants will be announced by March 10. 
 

Scholarships

Jobs

The Ecology Center in Ann Arbor, MI, has an available communications internship for summer 2008.

The Communications Intern’s primary responsibility is to provide programmatic and administrative support to enable more effective communications with our current and prospective online supporters. This internship provides an excellent opportunity to learn the “ins and outs” of nonprofit communications at a well-respected regional nonprofit.

Depending on the interest and skills of the prospective intern, this internship can be a combination of the following projects or more focused towards certain projects.

Specific duties include:

€ Assist in researching, writing and editing content for our monthly e-newsletter, EcoLink, and our quarterly

  print newsletter, From the Ground Up

€ Help maintain online database of supporters

€ Prepare data from Google Analytics

€ Maintain existing social networking avenues, such as Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, etc.

€ Assist in writing for the web and updating web pages, as needed

€ Help develop and keep printed materials (fact sheets, fliers, etc.) for campaigns, projects and events up

  to-date

Requirements:

Candidates must have strong writing, computer and research skills. Microsoft Office and Macintosh skills are required. Dreamweaver, InDesign, Photoshop, HTML experience a plus. Internet outreach experience a plus. Ability to follow instruction carefully, maintain or create organization and maintain high attention to detail. Ability to work both independently and in a team setting. Strong interest and commitment to environmental issues is highly desirable.

Time Duration and Compensation:

All internships are for a minimum of 10 hours per week during our business hours (10:00am-6:00pm M-F). Term length and schedules negotiable.

This is a non-paying internship for credit where applicable.  

To Apply:

Please submit resume, cover letter, and anything else you deem appropriate for consideration to melissa@ecocenter.org with “Communications Intern” in the subject line. No phone calls please. Deadline for Summer Internships: Open until filled.

Learn more about our organization by visiting our web site: http://www.ecocenter.org

Winrock International’s Wallace Center is accepting applications for a summer internship.  The position description is attached but can also be found on InSite.  Applicants should submit resume and statement of interest to Human Resources by the closing date indicated.  You may contact HR with any questions.

 

POSITION TITLE:               Intern

Location:                         Arlington, VA

UNIT:                                    Wallace Center

REPORTS TO:                      Director, Wallace Center

POSITION SUMMARY:   The intern will assist with research and collecting of materials for the Risk Mitigation Tool-Kit and the case study series.  This would include constructing a document library of currently available materials developed by farmers’ markets at a local, state and regional level across the country for review and evaluation.  This will involve contacting and networking with state organizations, regional market networks and local market managers.  In addition to building the document library, the intern will assist with the research for the case study interviews and writing.  Finally the intern would assist with some data entry for a 2007 farmers’ market survey that was conducted by the Wallace Center as part of the first year of the project.  

 

 

Regina L. Rice

Human Resource Generalist

______________________

Winrock International

2101 Riverfront Drive

Little Rock, AR 72202

Office: 501.280.3082

Fax: 501.280.3093

website: www.winrock.org

Dear Colleagues,

Our organization, 4 Peace, Inc. has several high positions available for distinguished students. We are an up-and-coming non-profit, specializing in development-related issues at home and abroad. We have several charity projects including a micro-credit assistance fund in South Asia, a malaria nets fund and anti-retroviral fund for Africa, and disaster relief funds. We also engage in lobbying and are currently working on Education for All, Sudan Divestment, Animal Protection legislation, to name a few. We are open to new projects and encourage project proposals.

We currently have two positions open on our Board of Directors and wish to invite you to apply. These positions include:

Director of Domestic Affairs, who shall oversee and coordinate projects concerning domestic topics of development, human rights, environmental sustainability, and other important issues. This Director shall become an expert in the domestic arena and shall help shape the organization's U.S. focused policies. The Director of Domestic Affairs shall serve on the Board of Directors and also on the Committee on Legislative Affairs.

Senior Writer/Editor who shall draft letters of recommendation, letters of appreciation, press release statements, media kits, and should actively manage the contents of the corporate website. The Senior Writer/Editor shall serve on the Board of Directors and also serve on the Committee on Public Relations.

These two positions are important and shall require a fairly intense time commitment. We are happy to try and accommodate to the schedules of our members, but may not always be able to.

I encourage anyone interested in applying to send a cover letter expressing interest, as well as a resume (if you have one available), and any other pertinent information. After we receive your information, I shall contact you to schedule an interview. Please send all materials to dijmares@msu.edu.
Also, for Professors, our Advisory Committee is accepting new members as well.
If you are interested, please email me to find out more.

Thank you and good luck!
Horia Dijmarescu

mobile - (248) 497-9692
email - dijmares@msu.edu