Core Summer Internship Program


2024 Core Summer Interns

Industry-Relevant Training in the UMass Core Facilities

Applications for Summer 2025 will be opening soon!

UMass Amherst operates more than 30 core facilities, many of which are housed in the Life Sciences Laboratory (LSL) building which opened in October 2016. Many of these facilities advance the Institute for Applied Life Science’s mission to support high quality research and to enhance human health and well-being. The overall Core Facility infrastructure was made possible by a grant from the Massachusetts Life Science Center.

The CSI Program aims to provide hands-on experiential research & technical training with these facilities to UMass undergraduate students from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).

Contact Info

Please contact UMassCoreInterns@umass.edu with any questions.  Please do not directly contact the core directors, and direct all communications to the above email address.

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Intern at the UMass Amherst Core Facilities
Training the Next-Generation STEM Workforce
Read about the experience from our past interns on our Instagram channel #csiumass.


Funding for the Undergraduate Core Summer Internship Program is made possible by the College of Natural Sciences, the College of Information & Computer Science, the College of Engineering, the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing, the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation, the School of Public Health & Health Sciences, the Office of the Provost, the Office of Research & Engagement, and the Institute for Applied Life Sciences.

The CSI Program is dedicated to training students joining the next-generation workforce in fields of innovative science and technology, and supporting diversity, equity and inclusion on the UMass campus and beyond. First-generation students and students from underrepresented minority groups are highly encouraged to apply.