2011 Interns along side their mentors and the Vances: from left to right: Guney Bademci, Ph.D., Shaun Brothers, Ph.D., Dale Hedges, Ph.D., Alexander Shahin, Neil Mehta, Kehinde Alonge, Albert Liu, Danny Arzu, David Green, Margaret Pericak-Vance, Ph.D., Matteo Kruijssen, Alyssa Civantos, Jeffery Vance, M.D., Ph.D., Gary Beecham, Ph.D., Derek Dykxhoorn, Ph.D., Aaron Uhlenberg
**We are now accepting applications for the 2012 JJ Vance memorial summer internship in biological and computational sciences! Please download and complete the Application with all of its requirements by April 2, 2012.
The JJ Vance memorial summer internship in biological and computational sciences is awarded to rising seniors in good standing from Miami-area high schools. Family and friends of JJ Vance, who was a student at East Chapel Hill High School (N.C.) at the time of his death, established the program. After JJ died, HIHG Director Dr. Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, her husband, Dr. Jeffery M. Vance, and their daughter, Danica, received more than 300 letters from people who knew JJ. The letters recounted JJ's acts of kindness, his passion for life, and his fundamental belief to help those around him. Heartened by the public response to JJ's death and committed to celebrating his life, the Vance family created the JJ Vance Foundation a few months after JJ's death. The interns participate in a challenging 8-week research course, working with faculty and post-doctoral fellows. Each intern is paired up with a HIHG staff member, post-doc or faculty member.
2011 JJ Vance Memorial interns complete rigorous program
The 2011 JJ Vance Memorial summer interns celebrated the successful completion of a challenging 8-week research program, working alongside expert faculty and post-doctoral fellows at the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, on August 2. The interns were joined by their families and mentors for a luncheon in which they were given the opportunity to demonstrate the knowledge that they attained from their internship experiences. Read more>>
Reflections: Past interns share their internship experience!
- • The 2011 JJ Vance Memorial summer interns complete rigorous program!
- • The 2010 JJ Vance Memorial summer interns celebrated the successful completion of a challenging 8-week research program.
- • 2009 JJ Vance Memorial Interns Justin Paluch, Arielle Kushman, India McMillan, Ashli Marie Wright and Elizabeth Elmaleh participated in the exciting and challenging five-week research internship working alongside expert faculty and post-doctoral fellows at the Hussman Institute for Human Genomics
- • 2005 JJ Vance Memorial Interns Nicole Hansen and Mangala Iyengar spent their summer forming career
goals while learning about human genetics.
- • 2004 JJ Vance Memorial Interns Steve DeLong and Jennifer Wong get real world research experience
while developing laboratory skills.
- • 2003 JJ Vance Memorial Summer Interns Ben Piven and Max Shafir explored Alzheimer and Parkinson disease research during
an intense yet fun summer experience.
- • 2002 JJ Vance Memorial Summer Interns Kate Crandall and Sukaina Ahmad gained valuable experience through their work at
the Genomics Research Lab.