All full-time Geography faculty with a continuing contract next academic year are eligible to submit a proposal for a Halmo Geography Scholar Program internship, except adjuncts and affiliates.
By Monday, June 9, 2025, please submit a brief proposal to Nell (ngross@uw.edu) containing the following elements:
- Description of the project and its significance to your research or teaching (1 paragraph)
- Activities and benefits to the Halmo Scholar, such as specific skills or experiences, co-authorship, conference presentation, or the development of professional or community networks (1 paragraph)
- These activities and benefits should be distinct from those gained through collaboration/service learning within a credit-bearing class (see note below)
- Hours of work per week (no more than 100 hours throughout the quarter)
- The quarter in which you envision the Halmo Scholar doing their work (SPR 2026 or SUM 2026)
- Maximum number of Halmo Scholars you would be willing to supervise
Resources for drafting your proposal
Here are examples of the internship position descriptions from 2025:
The Career & Internship Center has great resources for employers to use when creating an internship. As an internship, the role should be an experiential learning opportunity that:
- has a significant and intentional focus on student learning
- has a defined beginning and end
- centers around defined projects with clear objectives
Consider creating some learning goals for the internship that will inform the draft position description. Please contact Nell if you’d like help with this draft! To get started, try writing down some of the research tasks you anticipate assigning to the intern. Also think about your availability to supervise the intern(s), what kind of communication you’ll want to have with them, what space will they be working in (and with what equipment), etc.
Please note: Proposals should disclose relationships to planned or ongoing community collaboration/service learning within a credit-bearing class. They should describe how the Halmo-funded portion of work is distinct from research or collaboration activities undertaken in the for-credit class. As long as the proposal or application makes a compelling case that the Halmo fund is supporting activities that are distinct (in time, scope, substance) from work students are already required to do as part of service learning happening in a class, it would be fundable.
Timeline
At the beginning of the Fall quarter (2025), Nell will work with you to fine-tune your intern position description, which will be posted on our website. There will not be any formal selection process for faculty proposals, and all will be advertised. This means that there may be more proposals than we can fund. Halmo Scholar applicants will be able to review all calls and apply to the ones that interest them. Based on previous years, we expect to fund 1-4 Halmo Scholars in total.
Internship position descriptions must be finalized by October 24, 2025, to be posted on the Department of Geography website.
Halmo Scholar applications will be due on February 1, 2026. The UPC will select the finalists and share their applications with the relevant faculty member. Note again that at this stage, there may be more faculty proposals than there are finalists. Faculty will then have the opportunity to consider the finalist(s) and, in the process, are strongly encouraged to interview them. Selection decisions must be communicated to the UPC by February 27. The UPC will then communicate decisions to applicants in early March 2026.