LHSI Intern: Pediatric Bone Imaging Research Assistant

Program Summary:    

This internship is offered as a part of the Life-Health Sciences Internship Program (LHSI). This program connects 125 IU Indianapolis undergraduates per year with internships on campus with faculty and staff in a variety of health and science related campus areas/programs. All LHSI internships start in August 2026 and end in April 2027 and are paid $14/hour for up to 10 hours per week. Work-study is accepted but not required.  

Supervisor: Christopher Newman 

Department/Office: Medicine; Riley Hospital for Children Radiology and Imaging Sciences 

Overview of the internship site: My lab studies how to use medical imaging to explain and prevent fractures in kids. By using laboratory and clinical methods, my research focuses on how to use medical imaging to predict fractures in children with bone disease. My work also seeks to improve the detection of injuries associated with child abuse and try to better determine which fractures were caused by accidents and which fractures result from intentional abuse. My research also incorporates artificial intelligence to accomplish both goals. 

Website for more information:  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Interns will usually be involved in processing images for analysis and then tracing or labeling those images for the development of artificial intelligence models or for radiologists to view for clinical research. Though not required, students with coding experience would be involved in data processing and analysis as well as assisting with artificial intelligence model development. 

Work Environment and Dress Code: The work is performed primarily in a lab setting with dress code: Casual for Lab Environment, Professional for Hospital Environment 

Project-specific qualifications: Because my lab regularly works with patient data as well as sensitive topics (physical child abuse), emotional maturity is needed to handle sensitive patient data from vulnerable patient populations. Additionally, whether working on laboratory analysis or patient data, attention to detail is required to ensure accurate data entry when dealing with large datasets. Coding experience may be helpful for some projects but is not required. 

Hours per week: 10; flexible within regular work hours 

By the end of the LHSI program, you will: 

Carefully consider, explore, and articulate your career goals, including an analysis of how you arrived at that path and what steps you need to take next. (Community Contributor, Communicator) 

Understand your role and strengths on a professional team and analyze who you would like to become as a professional. (Communicator) 

Gain and strengthen skills relevant to next steps after graduation, such as communication, collaboration, teamwork, analysis/synthesis/evaluation, independence, confronting/challenging failure, problem-solving and perseverance, and constructive criticism. (Problem Solver, Communicator) 

Convey ideas and knowledge effectively through an ePortfolio and presentation of your internship work. (Problem Solver, Communicator) 

Set and meet your own additional learning goals identified with your supervisor. 

LHSI Qualifications    

must be graduating May 2028 or after (usually a current freshman or sophomore in Spring 2026)   

Current full time IU Indianapolis undergraduate in 2026-27 

minimum overall GPA of 2.0   

All majors welcome 

To apply: 

LHSI accepts 125 interns per year. All available sites are listed in Handshake and will start with the position title “LHSI Intern.” Complete the application for LHSI at go.iu.edu/lhsi and list 3-4 internship sites on that application. You will meet with at least 2 of these if selected for interviews.