To Apply:

​Please email all documents as a single PDF to switiak@vsu.edu. Applications are accepted anytime now. Review of applications will begin as they are submitted.

1. Resume or CV
2. Unofficial transcript with current GPA 
3. Contact information for 2 faculty members, employers, or mentors (Name, email, phone, and title)
4. Provide answers to the following questions: 
   1. Explain why you want to do an internship with this specific program. (100 words)
   2. Identify your top 3 topics as listed below and explain why you are most interested in these. (200 words) 
   3. How do you expect this research internship to contribute to your future goals? (200 words)

​Please send all questions about the program to switiak@vsu.edu.

Topics: 

• climate change
• molecular biology
• genomics
• plant development

• natural history
• plant stress
• adaptation and evolution
• gene expression and function

• microbes
• circadian rhythms
• ecology