Updated
2/9/11
These
internships should be of particular interest to SIUE students in Statistics,
Mathematics, Operations Research, Actuarial Science, and related disciplines.
Other opportunities
in these fields can be found at the following sites.
·
Internship Opportunities
– American Statistical Association
·
Internship and Co-op
Opportunities for Undergraduates – American Mathematical Society
A selection of
internships which do not appear in the above databases or are of interest
because they reside locally appears below.
The SIUE Career
Development Center also has internship positions seeking mathematics and
statistics majors.
http://www.siue.edu/careerdevelopmentcenter
Student Success Center, Room 0281
Phone: 618-650-3708
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Abbott
Abbott Park, Illinois
Number of Positions:
Multiple
Type of Student: Pursuing
MS or PhD in statistics or biostatistics
Deadline: February
15, 2011
Contact: To
submit your résumé, use our online career center at www.abbott.us/careers (U.S. Jobs, Search Keyword 69068BR
for stats position)
ACT,
Inc.
Iowa City, Iowa
Number of Positions:
Up to 10
Type of Student: Doctoral
student enrolled in statistics, measurement, educational or quantitative
psychology, or a related doctoral program at an institution in the United
States
Deadline: February
11, 2011
Additional info: ASA
Contact: Mark
Larson, Human Resources Dept., ACT, Inc., 500 ACT Drive, P.O. Box 168, Iowa
City, IA 52243-0168; (319) 337-1763; (319) 341- 2450 (fax); working@act.org
Note: D. Unger
has a professional contact at ACT if you’d like additional information.
Boeing
St. Louis, MO
Additional info: http://www.boeing.com/employment/collegecareers/index.html
Note: Several
former (and current) SIUE students hold jobs at Boeing.
Eli
Lilly and Company
Indianapolis, Indiana
Number of Positions:
Two to four
Type of Student: PhD
with two years of completed graduate work
Deadline: January
31, 2011
Additional info: ASA
Contact: http://www.lilly.com/careers
Pfizer
Global Research and Development
St. Louis, Missouri (and others
locations; see ASA link above)
Number
of Positions: Multiple
at each site
Type of Student: MS or PhD in
statistics, biostatistics, or a closely related field
Deadline: January 31, 2011
The program will consist of up to 480
hours of work at a Pfizer Global Research and Development facility, commencing
as early as April and ending as late as December. The intern’s project will be
biopharmaceutically oriented, with one-on-one supervision by a senior staff
statistician. It will be a hands-on learning experience involving both
statistical and related data review and data transformation programming tasks.
The programming tasks will involve the use of SAS, R, and/or other statistical
software on the UNIX or NT platforms. As part of the internship program, the
intern will prepare a written report and a brief presentation summarizing their
work.
Additional info: ASA
Contact: Liqiang Yang, Pfizer Global
Research and Development, La Jolla Laboratories, 10777 Science Center Drive,
CB10-2332, San Diego, CA 92121; (858) 678-8276 (fax); liqiang.yang@pfizer.com
Summer
Institute for Training in Biostatistics (SIBS)
St. Louis, Missouri (and 7 others
locations; see ASA link above)
Number of Positions:
20–25 at each site
Type of Student: Undergraduate
and beginning graduate students majoring in mathematics, statistics, biology,
or other science who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents and who have an
interest in quantitative methods
Deadline: March
4, 2011, or as specified by individual sites
Additional info: ASA
Contact: http://sibs.wustl.edu/sibs/ (Washington
University site)
Contact: www.nhlbi.nih.gov/funding/training/redbook/sibsweb.htm (NIH site)
Wolfram
Research (makers of Mathematica)
Champaign, IL
Additioinal
info: http://www.wolfram.com/company/opportunities/intern.html
Note: D. Unger
has a professional contact at Wolfram if you’d like additional information.
Zurich
Schaumburg (Chicago), IL
Additional info: ASA
Contact: Carlos Herrera; carlos.herrera@zurichna.com
Note: D. Unger
has a professional contact at Zurich if you’d like additional information.
Past
Recruiters
The following companies have solicited for summer
internships in the past and would be worth contacting to see if they
have any current openings.
Citigroup (2008)
O’Fallon, Missouri
Past opportunity was in Econometrics or
Applied Statistics for an Intern program at their O’Fallon facility. Candidates
for these positions are preferred to have either a Masters Degree or a Ph.D.
and some working experience with large data bases along with working knowledge
of SAS and S-Plus.
Contact: Citi Human Resources at
636-261-5963.
Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation (2009)
Kansas City, Missouri
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
seeks summer interns for our Research and Policy team. The foundation promotes
research and policies that initiate and grow innovative, sustainable
enterprises and improve the academic achievement of children. As an intern, you
will work closely with members of the Research and Policy team to accomplish
their objectives. Specific job responsibilities may include performing research
requested by the vice president of research and policy, director of
entrepreneurship, and other research staff; compiling basic descriptive
statistics and assisting in data analysis of medium and large data sets;
completing specific research projects and producing summary reports in an
independent manner; and assisting with logistical duties, including processing
grant proposals on entrepreneurship and organizing conferences and assignments.
Applicants should have an interest in entrepreneurship research and policies;
exceptional writing, research, and data analysis skills; excellent
organizational and project management skills; strong computer skills; knowledge
of statistical software packages (preferred, but not required); and a
willingness to travel, if necessary.
Contact: Human
Resources; (816) 932-1018
KV Pharmaceutical Company (2008)
St. Louis,
Missouri
As a clinical
trial programmer, you will be responsible for developing, validating and
maintaining general-purposed ad hoc SAS programs for the validation,
manipulation, analysis, and reporting of clinical efficacy/safety trial data
(Phase II through IV).
Past
opportunity asked for Bachelor’s degree in statistics, mathematics, computer
science or other analytical field and five years total SAS programming
experience required; of which 2 years experience is in analyzing and reporting
clinical trial data in a pharmaceutical setting. Master’s degree preferred.
Contact:
314-645-6600, www.kvph.com
Monsanto
Company (2010)
St. Louis, Missouri
Type of Student: Graduate
Contact: Monsanto
Company Human Resources, (314) 694-3613