Are you a current or incoming master’s student ready to plan for the upcoming year? Are you already thinking about internships and full-time jobs and how to stand out in a competitive job market?
If so, this boot camp series …
Lotus Kaufman, COL ‘ 24, Los Angeles, CA
This summer I had the pleasure of doing research for the newly founded Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media (PCSSM). Throughout my academic journey this far, I have been attempting …
Naomi Zucker, PhD Candidate in Cultural Anthropology
This summer, I was fortunate to work as an intern at Topos Partnership, a public opinion/strategic advising research consultancy that draws on social scientific methods (especially linguistics and anthropology) to explore (and help …
Megan Striff-Cave, COL ’23, West Hartford, CT
This summer, I worked as a Development Intern for Westward Productions, a production company based in Brooklyn. Working in development essentially means that I was focusing on the initial stages of projects for …
Jayden Huynh-Vuong, WH ’25, Glen Allen, VA
You’re sitting on your couch with a bag of chips (hopefully, kettle-cooked), trying to catch up on your favorite Netflix show, when you hear booming, vehement alarms coming from your phone. It causes …
Kate Ratner, COL ’25, Philadelphia, PA
This summer, I worked as a Public Relations intern at Braithwaite Communications in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Braithwaite is a boutique PR firm that represents clients in several industries such as pharmaceuticals, financial services, food production, …
Vina Tran, COL ’25, Lawndale, CA
Nutritional psychiatry is a rapidly rising field of research that has so much potential in shaping brain health. Ever since indulging in Dr. Uma Naidoo’s book This is Your Brain on Food: An Indispensable …
Emma Segerman, WH ’24, Bexley, OH
This summer, I found myself at times in a dugout in San Diego, and others running through a hospital in Manhattan. I worked as a Baseball Operations intern for Major League Baseball, concentrating in …
In the spring of 2022, 34 PhD students from a range of academic disciplines at Penn participated virtually in Career Services’ PhD Career Exploration Fellowship (CEF) program, where they were matched with a host organization to learn about different careers …
This is part of a series of posts by recipients of the 2021 Career Services Summer Funding Grant. We’ve asked funding recipients to reflect on their summer experiences and talk about the industries in which they spent their summer. You …
