Student Opportunities

Internships

• Secure an internship through the Washington College Center for Environment and Society or the Washington College Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience. You can also find your own internship, with many available in the region.
• Receive funding to support travel, housing, etc. during internships.
• Arrange your own internship experience through your own connections, or by tapping into the Center for Career Development’s extensive network.

Research

• Get into the lab as soon as your first year. Many courses have an associated lab, and manyof those labs are outdoors.
• Utilize the River and Field Campus (RAFC) for courses and lab work. You can conduct bird banding, stream sampling, and more on a unique, 5,000-acre living lab that incorporates 2.5 miles of Chester River waterfront, meadows, hardwood forests, ponds, grasslands, marshes and riverine habitat.
• Tailor the kind of labs you take (dealing with water or land, animals or plants, or geology) to your interests.
• Assist faculty with their research. Funding is available to support completing faculty research.
• Complete a Senior Capstone Experience (SCE), pursing a topic that interests you from beginning to end. SCE projects can be a literature review, a hypothesis with data collection and analysis, or service-learning based projects.
• Create your own research project. Support, financial or otherwise, is available across campus, including through the Cater Society for Junior Fellows.
• To get started thinking about what research you might be able to do at Washington, review our faculty’s areas of expertise.  

Get Involved

Build your résumé and expand your social circle simultaneously by joining clubs, honor societies, and more that help you connect with folks with similar interests.

• John S. Toll Research Program
• Libby and Douglass Cater Society for Junior Fellows
• Phi Betta Kappa Honor Society
• Kappa Alpha Omicron Honor Society
• Clubs: Campus Garden, Chestertown Kayaking Troupe, Composting Club, Student Environmental Alliance (SEA), WC Bird Club, Wildlife Conservation Club, and more!