Professional Development Opportunities
Events and Conferences
NC State Innovation and Entrepreneurship Open House
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BASF NextGen Graduate Student Innovation Session
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CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
This call for volunteers is from the NC Biotechnology Center for their Celebrating Life Sciences Successes in NC event on September 19th. Volunteers would help with check in and then be welcome to stay for the program. If interested in volunteering, contact Michelle VonCannon (Michelle_VonCannon@ncbiotech.org) by September 10th.
SAVE THE DATES: Fall Career Fairs
Explore All Fall Career FairsN.C. PSI 2024 Hackathon
![2023 PSI Hackathon](https://cals.ncsu.edu/psi/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2024/01/NCSU_Hackathon_2023-4680-1024x681.jpeg)
Mashup at the N.C. PSI
![Farm Credit Lawn in front of the Plant Sciences Building.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/psi/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2023/02/Farm-Credit-Lawn-1024x682.jpg)
Internships and Fellowships
SAPLINGS Undergraduate Research Opportunity
![Neural Network Brain](https://cals.ncsu.edu/psi/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2023/04/Neural-brain-shutterstock_93075775-e1704212256555-1024x577.jpg)
- Cambridge Gates PhD Scholarship Under Dr Nicola Patron
Applications are due early October 2024
Interested graduate students should contact Dr. Patron directly. - Post-Doctoral Career Development Fellowship
For UK and non-UK-domiciled researchers of Black heritage
Applications open September 24, 2024 - Food-Inspired Resilience & Equity (FIRE) Paid Internship
For undergraduate AND graduate students
Learn more and apply here
NC State LanchPad
NC State Innovation and Entrepreneurship has developed an incubator program to support early-stage undergraduate and graduate student startups.
Other Opportunities
- CASS Career Coaching Program
For undergraduate students
CALS Alumni for Student Success (CASS) Career Coaching is the college’s premier mentoring program where current CALS undergraduate students get paired with CALS alumni for a year of career mentoring and prep. Students in CASS get a chance to build impactful relationships with alums and industry experts that help build student success.
Sign up here
N.C. PSI Educational Outreach Opportunities
![N.C. PSI graduate students teach high school students how to perform experiments in the Demo Lab.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/psi/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2022/11/IMG_2170-1024x683.jpeg)