APPLY NOW: CoLab Narrative-Based Paid Summer Internship

CoLab is a 4-week paid summer narrative-based research internship for UMBC undergraduates. Student interns will work on interdisciplinary project teams to conduct research, create effective narratives, and develop public-facing final products that support the goals of on and off campus community organizations and scholars. Open to all majors, this is an excellent opportunity for students in STEM fields to learn to tell effective stories and for students in social science and humanities fields to gain research and technical skills.

Participants receive a $3000 stipend and a tuition scholarship for a 3-credit internship course.

Program Dates
CoLab 2024 will be held during Summer Session One and meets in-person from Monday, June 3rd through Friday, June 28th. PLEASE NOTE: During these dates, student interns are required to dedicate Monday through Friday from 9:30 am – 4:00 pm to the in-person internship.

Summer 2024 Projects

• Entering Tola’s Room: Archiving Puerto Rican Presence in Baltimore
• FindingBlackGirlhood: A Digital Archive
• Ghosts in the Stacks: Exploring Spiritualism in the UMBC Special Collections Library
• The History of The Choice Program at UMBC, A Mentoring and Diversion Program
• Picturing Mobility: Photographs of Black Tourism and Leisure during the Jim Crow Era
• Podcasting Baltimore’s LGBTQ+ Baltimore History
• The History and Impact of the UMBC Center for Women in Technology (CWIT)