Summer Employment
A significant number of summer employment opportunities for undergraduate students exist in the Department of Chemistry. Whether you are interested in graduate studies and would like to experience the world of scientific research before making a decision, or are just looking for a summer job, it is important that you plan ahead. Here are some different types of opportunities available and application deadline information.
Application deadlines are usually early in the Winter Term.
Check this page often as information and application deadlines will be updated.
Internal Opportunities
Casual hiring 'Employment Information Form' (PDF, 99KB)
- Location of Tenure: Queen's
- Application deadline: February 9, 2018
- Application forms available at: https://careers.sso.queensu.ca/home.htm
- Application form submitted to:
- Full Award details at: http://careers.queensu.ca/students/services-students/employment-programs/swep
140-150 on-campus summer positions available. There are a number of positions with the Department of Chemistry. Please see the Career's website for more details.
- Location of Tenure: Department of Chemistry, Queen's
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- Full award details at: Please contact Dr. Carrington, tucker.carrington@queensu.ca
The research project is in theoretical chemistry and addresses the motion of atoms in molecules and during reactions. The student will use a technique called simultaneous diagonalization (SD) to make basis functions that are localized in both position and momentum. According to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Relation it is impossible to perfectly localize both coordinates and momentum. SD will allow us to achieve the best possible simultaneous localization. The student who works on this project will learn to solve an interesting scientific problem. S/he will learn a lot about spectroscopy, numerical methods, and linear algebra.
External Opportunities
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- Application deadline: January 19, 2018
- Application forms available at: http://www.grandchallenges.ca/careers/
- Application form submitted to:
- Full Award details at: http://www.grandchallenges.ca/
Grand Challenges Canada’s Summer Student Program offers meaningful, hands-on work experience in the interdisciplinary field of global health.
- Location of Tenure: France
- Application deadline: January 9, 2018
- Application forms available at: http://ora.ouinternational.ca/sites/default/files/ORA%20SRP%202015%20Application.pdf
- Application form submitted to: International Programs Office, Mackintosh-Corry Hall, B206, http://www.queensu.ca/ipo/outgoing-students/oui-summer-programs/ora-summer-programs
- Full award details at: http://ora.ouinternational.ca/summer-research-program-3
The Ontario Rhône Alpes Summer Research Program (ORA/SRP) offers undergraduate and graduate students in sciences, engineering, and health science disciplines the opportunity to do research in a French lab over the summer months.
- Location of Tenure: Université de Montréal
- Application deadline: Friday, January 26, 2018, 5pm EST
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- Full award details at: www.iric.ca/en/students/internships/awards
This internship award program offers students a unique and enriching opportunity to receive a 12-week or 16-week internship project in one of IRIC’s 28 research team working to advance science in the area of cancer research. The many internship projects offered explore a variety of topics and techniques related to systems biology, molecular biology, immunology, biochemistry, bioinformatics, genomics, proteomics, etc.
- Location of Tenure: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
- Application deadline: February 28, 2017
- Application forms available at: http://chemistry.ua.edu/research-experience-for-undergraduates-program-reu/
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- Location of Tenure: University of Toronto
- Application deadline: February 27, 2017
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- Location of Tenure: Ontario Cancer Institute, Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre and the University of Toronto
- Application deadline: Saturday, February 24, 2018
- Application forms available at: https://mbpsummer.sri.utoronto.ca
- Application form submitted to:
- Full award details at: http://medbio.utoronto.ca/content/summer-student-program-overview-and-faq
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- Full award details at: http://iaestecanada.org/
Open to students in Applied Science, Sciences or Technical Sciences.
- Location of Tenure:
- Application deadline: November 10, 2017
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- Full award details at: http://www.risecanada.ca/
- Location of Tenure:
- Application deadline: November 3, 2017
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- Full award details at: http://www.ryerson.ca/cab/ICE/
- Location of Tenure: Germany
- Application Deadline: December 15, 2017
- Application forms available at:
- Application form submitted to:
- Full award details at: https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/globalink/rise-globalink-research-internship
RISE (Research Internships in Science and Engineering) gives undergraduate students in the fields of biology, chemistry, engineering, geology and physics the chance to spend a summer working with German doctoral students on research projects.
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- Full award details at: http://www.triumf.ca/studentaward