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Internship and Fellowship Opportunities Listed in order of application deadline (All new listings this month!) Interfaith Youth Core - Fellows Alliance 2008-2009 Interfaith Youth Core is seeking student leaders from diverse faith communities on college and university campuses across the country. IFYC Fellows receive year-long stipends to support interfaith organizing work on their college campus, IFYC staff mentors, a network of peer colleagues, access to the national network of interfaith youth work organizers, specialized trainings, media opportunities, and other leadership development. The application deadline is March 15, 2008. Visit www.ifyc.org/fellows to download the Fellows Alliance application. For more information, contact Megan Hughes 312-573-8911 or megan@ifyc.org. Summer Research Internship The School of Public Health in the University of Alabama at Birmingham This internship is for students interested in studying neighborhood poverty and its impact on adolescent behavior. Students who participate in the internship will conduct a survey of adolescents living in public housing and other very low-income neighborhoods in Mobile and Prichard, Alabama. This longitudinal survey, which has been administered annually since 1998 and has been funded by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute for Drug Abuse (NIDA), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), addresses challenges that young people face as they grow up in impoverished neighborhoods, including violence, alcohol and drug use, sexual behavior, the development of self-esteem and a sense of the future, and family dynamics. Interns will also have an opportunity to participate in other studies involving the same population. Interns, who may be either undergraduate or graduate students, will be required to live in Mobile between May 19, 2008 and August 1, 2008. The first week, they will receive rigorous training for the project, including recruiting research participants, interviewing, and the general conduct of field research. Following training, they will go out in the field; their work will involve door-to-door recruitment of survey participants (to obtain parental permission and informed consent and to schedule a survey time), documentation of the recruitment efforts, and data collection (through administration of the survey in both group and individual settings). Each student who participates will receive a stipend ($7.50 per hour) to cover living expenses. General work hours are between 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM, with some limited weekend work required. They will accept 20-30 student interns into the program. In the past, they have accepted students from a variety of social science and related disciplines, including Public Health, Psychology, Sociology, Social Work, Political Science, Criminal Justice, Human Development, African American Studies, Women's Studies, Education, and Biology. All interns will have access to the data for academic purposes. Internship applicants should have good communication skills, be able to work well in a team setting, and be sensitive to issues of race and poverty. For more information, please contact John Bolland (contact information is listed below). Interested students should send a note indicating their interest and a resume (with names of and contact information for three references). The will begin screening applicants on March 17 2008, although they will continue accepting applications until all positions are filled (typically at least the middle of April). John M. BollandDepartment of Health BehaviorSchool of Public HealthUniversity of Alabama at BirminghamRPHB 2271530 3rd Avenue SouthBirmingham, AL 35294-0022(205) 975-7149
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