The CoMotion Mary Gates Innovation Scholars internship program is now accepting applications! Students can spend Summer quarter working as interns with UW faculty-led start-up companies, seeking to transfer research to real-world applications. Participants will build upon their strengths and learn about intellectual property and entrepreneurship through hands-on teamwork with an emerging company.
Each Innovation Scholar will receive a $5,000 scholarship and earn course credit.
Students with backgrounds in art, biology, botany, business, chemistry, civil & environmental engineering, computer science & engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, microbiology, linguistics, neuroscience, physics, public health, psychology, speech & hearing sciences, statistics, visual communications, web design and more should apply. Ten different internships are available this year, across a broad spectrum of engineering, health sciences, and natural sciences.
WHAT: CoMotion Mary Gates Innovation Scholars
WHEN: Summer 2017 (June 19 – August 18)
EARN: $5,000 and course credit
DEADLINE: Monday, April 10 at midnight
Students from all three campuses are invited to apply. All internships will be at/near the Seattle campus. Only degree-seeking UW undergraduate students are eligible (students graduating in Summer 2017 or later are eligible; Winter or Spring quarter graduates are not eligible). This program is made possible by CoMotion and the Mary Gates Endowment for Students.
Please share this announcement with all students who may be interested! Send questions to mgates@uw.edu.
