The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center announced that it has placed 164 interns at 93 life sciences companies.
The program aims at "expanding the pool of prospective employees who have practical experience, enhancing opportunities for mentoring, enabling more students to explore career opportunities despite the challenging economic environment, and providing to students interested in working in the life sciences a peer network through educational and informational networking events.
More from today’s press release:
“Having graduated college, my job opportunities seemed slim to none with the current job market, but the Massachusetts Life Science Center’s Internship Challenge has allowed me to get my foot in the door to greater opportunities,” said Enget Dang, a marketing major and recent graduate of UMass-Amherst, who is interning this summer at PharmaHealth Clinical Research Services in Fairhaven, MA. “It is important to jump on opportunities like the Internship Challenge because it allows you to build and develop new skills and interact with professionals, and gives hope to those students who believe that job opportunities are scarce. The Internship Challenge is a stepping stone towards my future, and is the best graduation gift any graduate could ask for.”
“It is a great benefit to have the opportunity to work for a small company that, without the Center’s funding, may not otherwise have had the opportunity to bring on interns,” said
Kevin Goggins, a senior and biomedical engineering major at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, who is interning this summer at SemiNex Corporation in Peabody, MA. “I have had the opportunity to work within a large organization in the summer prior to this; however, I am delighted that I now have the opportunity to experience a completely different corporate structure. I think this program offers a phenomenal opportunity for students in the already very promising life sciences field.”