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Shadowing opportunities 

• CU Sports Medicine 

  •  If you are interested in shadowing at CU Sports Medicine, they have a variety of career interests including physician assistants, orthopedic fellows, physical therapists, athletic trainers, and more. 

  • Contact: cusportsmedshadowing@gmail.com to get involved!

Research

Doing research as an undergraduate:

1. Consider what your strengths and skills are
   • Previous experience
   • Department-specific skills
     • Statistics
     • PCR
     • CRISPR
     • Sterile technique
     • NMR
   • CITI Human Research Certification
2. Determine what labs exist for your major
   • IPHY
   • Psychology and Neuroscience
   • MCDB
3. See what those labs are doing, or have done
4. Reach out to the lab director, telling them:
   • Why you are interested in working with their lab specifically
   • What your skills are
   • What coursework you have taken to prepare you for research
   • How much time you can commit to research
   • How research will fit into your overall goals
5. Get funding!
   • Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
   • Biological Sciences Initiative
   • Discovery Learning Apprenticeship Program
   • Professional and Academic Conference Endowment

Summer Research Opportunities

Chaco Canyon National Historic Park

Spend the summer getting hands-on experience in biological anthropology, determining how the Chaco people of New Mexico transported huge beams over 70 km over a thousand years ago.

Contact Dr. Rodger Kram at rodger.kram@colorado.edu for more information or to apply.

Participate as a research subject:

• Sleep and Chronobiology
  • How sleep loss affects your ability to think and changes the helpful bacteria living in your gut
  • Two laboratory visits of approximately 3.7 days each at the CU Sleep and Chronobiology Lab
  • Compensation up to $1,680
  • Must be 18-35 years old and be apparently health
  • Contact sleep.study@colorado.edu (Subject line: Navy study)
• Navigating the Built Environment
  • How humans prioritize time, energy, and intensity when walking from point to point on flat and inclined surfaces
  • Two sessions lasting up to 1.5 hours on two separate days, one outdoor session, one session at the CU Human Locomotion Lab 
  • Compensation of $10 to the nearest half-hour
  • Contact cuwalkstudy@gmail.com
• Positive Emotion & Psychopathology
  • Option 1: Behavioral Lab Visit (4-5 hours; $15 per hour)
    • Interview about thoughts and feelings, physiological monitoring (heart rate), computer tasks, questionnaires
  • Option 2: fMRI Visit (3 hours each; $25 per hour)
    • View videos and pictures, and think about emotions while in a brain imaging scanner, computer tasks, questionnaires
  • Option 3: Pressure Pain Task Visit (1-2 hours; $15 per hour)
    • One computer task involving tolerable pressure pain, physiological monitoring (heart rate), computer tasks, questionnaires
  • Must be 18-45 years old and have no history of mental health conditions
  • Contact gruberpeplab@colorado.edu (Subject line: MASC Emotion Study) (303) 735-7547
• Mechanisms of Pain
  • Seeking individuals 18-55 years old for laboratory study on mechanisms of pain
  • Pain is always tolerable
  • 2.5 hours, $12 per hour
  • Contact canLABstudies@gmail.com

Pre-requisite Classes

Preparing for the MCAT

Internships and Jobs

• Assist Athletic Trainers in injury treatment for Rec Center patrons and intramural sports athletes
• Required to work 3-8 PM at least 2 days per week, unpaid.
• To apply, email cover letter and resume to RICC@colorado.edu. Applications due February 8th.

• Work closely with Arts & Sciences faculty who are interested in integrating technology into their courses
• Undergraduate hourly 8-12 hours/week, $12/hour

• Paid internship with Synthio chemicals
• Open to students interested in chemistry or chemical engineering
• Must have taken organic chemistry labs
• Email michelle.carlson@colorado.edu to apply

• Volunteer work with Women's Basketball staff
• For questions or to express interest, email tad.wedel@colorado.edu

• Deliver high quality strength and conditioning training for U11 age groups and up
• Flexible hours Monday-Friday 4:30 PM- 9:30 PM
• Send resume and relevant certifications to Leigh.Veidman@fcboulder.com (402) 708-0771

• Gain experience in physical therapy and exercise physiology
• Unpaid, but potential for academic credit
• Contact Jon at jmojock@medfit.net (303) 939-0691

Public Interest Internship Experience (Â鶹ӰԺ & Denver)

• Make a positive impact by partnering with local non-profit and government organizations
• Must be full-time CU undergraduate continuing in Fall 2019 (no seniors), with min. 2.5 GPA.
• Stipend of $4,680 over 360 hours over the summer
• Applications due February 1st.

• Provide assistance in designing and implementing adaptive exercise programs for individuals with spinal cord injuries
• Email resume to Amanda Wilson (Executive Director) amanda.w@scirecoveryproject.org