LHSI Intern: ICARES Research Assistant

Program Summary:  

This internship is offered as a part of the Life-Health Sciences Internship Program (LHSI). This program connects 125 IUI 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 2025 and end in May 2026 and are paid $13/hour for up to 10 hours per week. Work-study is accepted but not required.

Supervisor: Dr. Ann Kimble-Hill (ICARES Research Assistant)

Department/Office: Medicine; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Overview of the internship site: Become part of a team who's objectives are to reduce racialized sexual harassment & discrimination in academic learning environments! This research addresses the need to eradicate sexual harassment and racially motivated mistreatment of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in biomedical research training programs so that women and racial/ethnic minoritized students can thrive and contribute to scientific discovery. We examine the role of mentors’ power on their proclivity to sexually and racially harass and exacerbated by power-based structural elements of the training environment, and we develop a comprehensive intervention to dismantle those forces. Students involved in this project will help with literature reviews and creation/analysis of survey data.

Website for more information: https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/12434/kimble-hill-ann

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Conduct literature reviews from peer-reviewed journals; collect data from available on-campus and public databases; design and implement survey tools; perform data entry and code survey results; analyze results of surveys and databases for trends.

Work Environment and Dress Code: The work is performed primarily in an office setting; with dress code of normal school attire

Hours per week: flexible based on student needs (10 maximum), scheduling is completely flexible with regularly scheduled check-in points during the week

Project-specific qualifications: Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Ability to use database and/or statistical software a plus. Students with knowledge of diversity practices and literature also a plus.

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 2027 or after (usually a current freshman or sophomore in Spring 2025) 

·        Current full-time IUI undergraduate

·        minimum overall GPA of 2.0 

·        All majors welcome

To apply:

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