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Lighting up their Futures: Summer Internships 2026

September 15, 2026

Each summer, more than 150 Bryn Mawr students pursue internships to apply their Bryn Mawr education in a meaningful work environment and receive funding or academic credit through the Career & Civic Engagement Center

Students engage in both fully funded internship programs for Bryn Mawr students, as well as self-design opportunities that students successfully secured on their own. From environmental justice to financial technology, from San Francisco to Mongolia, these internships span a wide range of fields and locations and highlight the diverse interests of our students across all academic disciplines. Through real-world work experience, these summer internships help students to pursue their interests beyond the bounds of the classroom, develop new skills, and shine a light on possible post-grad pathways.

Khanh Ha Nguyen '27

This summer, Nguyen interned at Google as a software engineer intern, where she worked on frontend development and made changes to improve the user experience. Nguyen learned about the importance of context and explaining the 鈥渨hy鈥 when communicating technical ideas. She shared that a rewarding part of her internship was to be a part of building a real product that will be used by real people at scale. Contributing to products that have been such a big part of her everyday life is something she has always wanted to experience.

Khanh Ha in front of the Google logo
Khanh Ha Nguyen '27
The most rewarding part is knowing that something I built will be used by real people.

Joining the Workforce

Jack Carlson '27

Global Change Ecology Intern at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

After a visit to the wetlands two years ago with Professor of Biology Tom Mozdzer, Jack Carlson was determined to return for a research internship. This summer, Carlson followed through on that desire and undertook a research project on porewater methane concentrations in a wetland warming experiment, work that has important impacts on building accurate carbon budgets and forecasting emission rates under climate change.

Carlson taking a measurement in a field
Jack Carlson '27
It's been so important to see the realities of the job and still know that this type of research is something that I continue to find joy and purpose in.

Lucy Brannon '27 and Cece Albright '28

Two Bryn Mawr students spent their summers as gardeners with the Garten Coop Freiburg, a food justice initiative in Germany. Though they come from different majors 鈥 Brannon from biology and Albright, environmental studies 鈥 a shared interest in sustainability and the fight against food injustice drew them both to the organization. Their time in Germany has seen them planting, cultivating, and harvesting enough food to routinely distribute portions of vegetables to 300 households, impacting more than 850 people weekly.

Lucy and Cece posing for a selfie

Hands-On Experience

Eleanor welding in a workshop

Eleanor Kimball '29

Kimball's summer has been spent welding, wire wrapping, and sewing parts of a larger sculpture in a studio at Amherst College, in support of a final product that will examine the relationship between GMO crops and an invasive species. For Kimball, who has always been interested in both art and science, this internship proved to be the perfect blend of the two subjects that are often viewed as conflicting.

Keziah Keya '27

Keya applied her analytical skills from her math and computer science background at Bryn Mawr to her summer internship at Intuit Credit Karma. Keya has found herself personally using Credit Karma as a useful tool for understanding the American financial system, so she jumped at the chance to have an internship that resonated with her personal experience, while simultaneously exposing her to the world of financial technology. Her work this summer focused on backend engineering, where she worked on making systems more resilient by identifying the small errors that had potential to turn into large scale issues.

Keziah in front of a Credit Karma Mural
Keziah Keya '27
My manager, mentor, and teammates were incredibly generous with their time and always willing to answer a question, explain something I didn't understand, or show me the ropes.

International Research

Trisha Potluri '27

Potluri's background as a neuroscience major at Bryn Mawr and interest in getting hands-on experience in a lab setting was what initially inspired her to apply for a research internship. This summer, she has participated in research on Down Syndrome at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine by administering various tissue analyses to mice in order to identify molecular mechanisms with promising abilities to improve mitochondrial function, enhance cellular bioenergetics, and regulate stress-response pathways.

"I thoroughly enjoyed learning new techniques and implementing them throughout my time here.The skills that I gained at this internship will be utilized throughout the rest of my research journey as I thesis this upcoming year."

Headshot of Trisha side by side with lab plates

The Internship Blog

Want to learn more about what Mawrters were up to this summer? Check out the full gallery of blogs, written by students, to explore the full breadth of opportunities that our students choose to pursue.