Program Type
Internships
Students Eligible
Princeton undergrads
Class Years Eligible
First-year students
Sophomores
Juniors
Description
The Derian Summer Internship is a faculty-mentored and community-informed research internship program administered by ProCES. Derian supports collaborations between faculty, undergraduate interns, and community experts. Interns support faculty in discipline-specific or discipline-spanning research or practicing artistry that is being conducted in collaboration with, and that directly benefits, locally, nationally, or internationally-located community partners and that facilitates the growth of students as community-engaged scholars.
Division
Humanities
Social Sciences
Natural Sciences
Engineering
Number of Projects / Participants in Previous Year
10
Number of Weeks
8 weeks
Application Deadline
Feb - Mar (Rolling)
Program Contact
Tania Boster
Contact Email
Research Type
Applied
Field
Other
Other Research Types
Community-based research
Type of Support
Paid
Support Provided
ProCES provides students with a $700 weekly living stipend which covers housing and meals, as well as $150/week supplemental funding (total summer stipend is $6,800). Additional funds for project-related expenses are available on an application basis.
Additional Information
Projects have included: language revitalization; documentary filmmaking; community-building; sustainable agriculture; archival research or archive development; public humanities; creating best practices reviews; designing assessments; developing curricula; generating research-based content, such as policy briefs or communications materials; grant writing; oral history; community history; digital humanities; environmental impact studies; and interviewing or surveying community members.