VT EPSCoR Undergraduate Research Internship Applications Due January 31, 2024

ANNOUNCING: VT EPSCoR Undergraduate Research Internship Positions available Summer 2024 (the Science of Stories)

Vermont EPSCoR’s Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS) research team is currently recruiting 12 undergraduate students for an exciting ten-week, paid internship opportunity based at the University of Vermont (UVM) beginning June 10, 2024.

SOCKS is a large, multi-disciplinary effort funded by the National Science Foundation, that revolves around stories as an essential part of how people comprehend, explain, predict, and seek to navigate the world. SOCKS supports the Digital Humanities by developing a powerful approach to quantifying both individual stories and ecologies of stories through massive data collection, natural language processing, and large language models—computer-based encodings of the meaningful connections between words and phrases.

The following research areas are available:

  • Indigenous voices in global environmental governance
  • Data ethics, privacy, and narrative bias 
  • Social and health narratives
  • Analysis of local news stories and programs


Primary Faculty Mentors: 
Richard Watts, Director of the Center for Research on Vermont 
Kemi Fuentes-George, Associate Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College 
Juniper Lovato, Research Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Vermont [website]

Randall Harp, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Vermont [website]

Other faculty mentors may be available from the SOCKS faculty on the social and health teams. If you are interested in working with anyone in particular, be sure to list that in your statement of research interest. The range of research areas in which students may participate is quite extensive. SOCKS interns delve into research projects— an opportunity not often available during the academic year. Projects are markedly different from most course-based work in that they are open-ended and part of a much larger research program.

Please see the links below for more information and to apply to the Undergraduate Internship:

https://www.uvm.edu/socks/ug-apply

Application Deadline: January 31, 2024, at 5 pm EST.