Program Overview

The Mentorship for Environmental Scholars (MES) Program is a nine-week paid summer internship that provides exposure to laboratory research in the areas of biotechnology, computer science, environmental science and engineering to underrepresented college students. The MES program actively recruits qualified undergraduates from MIs for extensive training that will pilot them towards gainful employment in various research and management positions within the Department of Energy (DOE).

A Few Highlights

• 55 student internships have been awarded.

• Many MES interns have presented their research paper at various national and international venues, including the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, the Georgia Academy of Science Conference, the American Society of Agronomy Conference, the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, and the International Safe Water Conference.

Interns in front of the Department of Energy conference center with Becky Craft and Dr. Ghuman.	Tamara Wilson and fellow interns perform an experiment.
Interns perform restriction analysis of DNA, which consists a lot of micropipetting.	An intern concentrates during an experiment.