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Co-Op Program

Edifice the next generation of leaders in the life sciences industry

The Division of Biological Sciences Cooperative Didactics (Co-Op) Program is a i-yr paid immersive work feel for students in an industrial setting. Co-Op students gain critical and competitive skills and noesis to build a successful career through mentorship from industry professionals, professional evolution support from kinesthesia and staff, and work experience. The program is open to undergraduate students of all majors.

If you are a pupil or visitor interested in joining our Co-Op Plan, delight review the information nether the respective tab below, so contact united states of america (biocap@ucsd.edu).

Current Co-Op corporate partners:

Prospective Students

Eligibility and Awarding Checklist

The 2022-2023 Co-Op cohort (students who sign their Co-Op offer letter past March fifteen and start their Co-Op position in Summer 2022) must take BILD 82 Task and Internship Preparation: Professional person Development Skills in Spring 2022.
- This course is on Tuesdays at 9-9:50 a.chiliad. and is a hybrid of synchronous remote pedagogy and in-person at the UC San Diego Career Center. Attendance is mandatory.
Students are eligible to apply to Co-Op positions during their freshman, sophomore and junior years. Students start working at their Co-Op position the summer afterward they apply. This means that fourth-yr students who graduate in June are ineligible to employ, as students must exist enrolled at UC San Diego while working at their Co-Op position.
Companies tin can recruit undergraduate students of all majors. Students must read the task clarification to confirm eligibility, every bit companies seek specific majors and grade standings for each position.
Students can participate in the Co-Op Program up to 3 times with the same or unlike companies.
- At the finish of each term, and until the student graduates, the company can offer the student the opportunity to keep the position.
- The visitor can offer the student full-time employment upon graduation.
It is recommended that prospective students schedule an date through Handshake to meet with a career coach at the Career Middle for a resume, cover letter and LinkedIn profile to applying to a Co-Op position. It is recommended that students do this at least one month before applying to a Co-Op position in order to have the time needed to develop thoughtful and competitive application materials.
Information technology is besides recommended that prospective students come across with the UC San Diego Co-Op Program staff advisor (mhoon@ucsd.edu) prior to applying to a Co-Op position to ostend eligibility and review the program requirements.
It is recommended that prospective students enroll in one or all of the professional person development courses below prior to applying to and/or during enrollment in the Co-Op Program. Undergraduates of all majors and class standings are eligible to enroll in these courses.
- BILD 92 Professional Development Topics in Biology (offered in Fall, Winter and Spring)
- BILD 83 Business Communications in Biology (offered in Fall, Winter and Leap)
- BILD 80 Job and Internship Preparation: Task Application (offered in Fall)
- BILD 81 Job and Internship Training: Interview Skills (offered in Winter)

Deadlines and How to Utilise

Fall through March 15: Recruitment menstruation
- Open positions are listed on this website and are featured in the weekly Biological Sciences undergraduate newsletter. Open up positions can also be found on Handshake when searching "Co-Op Plan."
- Apply to Co-Op positions through Handshake and include your resume, encompass letter of the alphabet and LinkedIn profile (include your LinkedIn URL on your resume and cover letter headings) in your application.
- Students can apply to more than than one Co-Op position each recruitment period.
March 15: Students sign their Co-Op position offer letter on or before this engagement. Besides on or earlier this date, Co-Op students who accept signed their offer letter enroll in BILD 82 Job and Internship: Professional Evolution Skills, which students are required to accept prior to starting their Co-Op position in Summer.
Summer: Co-Op students showtime their position at the company. Together, the student and the visitor will determine the educatee's start date (must exist in June, July or Baronial). Once the showtime date is determined, the student and visitor volition report this date to the UC San Diego Co-Op Program staff advisor (mhoon@ucsd.edu).

What to Look

All Co-Op positions are paid.
Past applying to a Co-Op Program position, y'all are confirming that:
- You will enroll in and are available to have BILD 82 Job and Internship Preparation: Professional Evolution Skills in Spring 2022. This course is on Tuesdays at nine-nine:50 a.m. and is a hybrid of synchronous remote instruction and in-person at the UC San Diego Career Center. Attendance is mandatory.
- You know where the visitor is physically located, and y'all take consistent and reliable transportation to get to and from work, and will arrive at work early on or on time for every shift.
- Yous volition exist bachelor to work at the company total-fourth dimension (40 hours per week, eight hours per day, generally M-F) during summer and part-time (roughly 12-15 hours per week) during the academic twelvemonth.
- You understand that you lot will be balancing academic, extracurricular and Co-Op commitments. Information technology is strongly recommended that you exercise not piece of work or volunteer at some other visitor while working in your Co-Op position.
As a Co-Op student, you will proceeds:
- The opportunity to supplement your educational activity with piece of work experience in an industrial setting.
- Mentorship from a colleague or supervisor at your Co-Op company.
- Professional person evolution support from UC San Diego Co-Op Program kinesthesia and staff advisors.
- Soft skills training from the required Co-Op Program form, BILD 82 Internship and Chore Preparation: Professional person Development Skills.
- The opportunity to expand your professional person network.

Current Co-Op Students

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the Co-Op Programme, students should be able to:

Apply their coursework to solve real-earth problems.
Identify their areas of strength and growth opportunities in an industrial setting.
Work finer equally a member of a team in an industrial setting.
Rail their professional person growth.
Identify solutions to problems that arise in their piece of work experience and demonstrate the capacity to solve these problems both independently and collaboratively.
Demonstrate constructive written and verbal communication when discussing scientific problems and solutions at work.
Exhibit professional and ethical behavior at all times while working.
Reflect on their commitment to a career in life sciences through networking, mentorship and self-evaluation.
Demonstrate how they plan to go along their professional development for career success.
Understand what it takes to be a competitive candidate in their called field.
Demonstrate strong soft skills, including leadership, collaboration, communication, self-sensation, and giving and receiving feedback.
Develop and maintain professional person relationships, including with a mentor, for back up and guidance with their professional endeavors, and for potential professional references on task and internship applications.

Requirements at Work

You lot must have consistent and reliable transportation.
Arrive at work early on or on time for every shift.
Follow company protocols and guidelines, including clothes code, codes of conduct and ethics, and privacy laws. Your Co-Op position is a real, paid task and you will sign a contract with the company. If at any indicate you are not in compliance with the company'due south expectations or guidelines, your supervisor tin cease you. Termination ways yous are no longer enrolled in the Co-Op Program and no longer piece of work at the company.
By Sept. ane, decide with your supervisor who your mentor within the company will be throughout your enrollment in the Co-Op Program.
Nowadays yourself professionally and ethically at all times.
Notify your supervisor in advance if you will be late or absent.
Provide your supervisor with your availability at least one calendar week in advance prior to the start of each quarter.
Notify your supervisor immediately with changes to your schedule, such as class time updates.
You must be available to work at the visitor total-time (xl hours per week, 8 hours per mean solar day One thousand-F) during summertime and part-fourth dimension (roughly 12-15 hours per week) during the academic year.

Requirements at UC San Diego

Take BILD 82 Chore and Internship Training: Professional person Development Skills in Spring 2022. This course is on Tuesdays at 9-9:fifty a.yard. and is a hybrid of synchronous remote instruction and in-person at the UC San Diego Career Center. Omnipresence is mandatory.
By Sept. 1, provide the Co-Op staff advisor (mhoon@ucsd.edu) with the name and email address of your mentor at the company.
While working in your Co-Op position, log a daily reflection of your Co-Op experience and what you are learning in discussions with your visitor mentor, and submit a weekly reflection to the Co-Op Program kinesthesia and staff advisors (mhoon@ucsd.edu).
Once per quarter while enrolled in the Co-Op Program, conduct an informational interview with a colleague at your Co-Op company. Submit a reflection on your advisory interview to the Co-Op faculty and staff advisors. (mhoon@ucsd.edu)
Meet synchronously and remotely iii times per quarter (Weeks 1, v and ten) with the Co-Op cohort, and the Co-Op faculty and staff advisors, to discuss Co-Op progress and skills developed during piece of work experience.
- When the accomplice meets during Calendar week ten, students volition give a PowerPoint presentation on their Co-Op experience and what they've learned.
In the Jump post-obit the Summertime you start the Co-Op Program, give a PowerPoint presentation to the incoming Co-Op cohort in their BILD 82 class on what your overall Co-Op experience was like and what y'all learned.
Notify the Co-Op Program faculty and staff advisors (jpogliano@ucsd.edu and mhoon@ucsd.edu) and your supervisor with whatever updates, challenges, or changes regarding your work feel, e.m., if yous are unable to piece of work due to circumstances such as disease or a decease in the family. They volition determine whether or not you can remain in the Co-Op Programme if you are unable to work for an extended catamenia of time.

Onboarding Deadlines

March fifteen: Students sign their offer letter and enroll in BILD 82 Job and Internship: Professional Development Skills, a form Co-Op students are required to take prior to starting their Co-Op position in Summer.
Summer: Co-Op students start their position at the visitor. Together, the student and the visitor will determine the student'due south showtime date (must exist in June, July or August). Once the start date is determined, the student and company will written report this date to the UC San Diego Co-Op Programme staff advisor (mhoon@ucsd.edu).
Sept. i: Work with your supervisor to determine past this date who your mentor within the company will be throughout your enrollment in the Co-Op Program, and notify the Co-Op staff advisor (mhoon@ucsd.edu) with this update once confirmed.
Adjacent June: Students will end their position the post-obit June (end engagement determined by student and visitor).

Prospective Corporate Partners

Why Go a Co-Op Corporate Partner?

As a Co-Op corporate partner, you are part of the Segmentation of Biological Sciences Corporate Affiliates Program (BioCAP). Current BioCAP benefits are:
- Visitor brand meridian across UC San Diego and related external channels
- Diverse, world-form talent pipeline development through the Co-Op Program.
- The opportunity to increase conversion rate of interns to full-fourth dimension employees, every bit Co-Op corporate partners accept the opportunity to hire Co-Op students full-time afterward graduation.
Targeted marketing of open up positions. Our Co-Op team volition work with your talent acquisition squad to build a recruitment programme and promote positions broadly across campus, too as straight to educatee populations that run across your hiring needs. Please review "What to Expect from UC San Diego" under "Current Co-Op Corporate Partners" for more information on our collaborative and unique targeted marketing approach.
Admission to competitively trained, highly diverse talent that is passionate about edifice their careers and applying the noesis and skills they've adult through their instruction at 1 of the world's consistently top-ranked universities. Some of UC San Diego'southward recent rankings and diversity statistics include:
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- View more rankings here and a comprehensive undergraduate diversity profile here.

How to Become a Corporate Partner

If your company is interested in condign a Co-Op corporate partner, please review the information on this page, including in the "Current Co-Op Partners" section, and then contact the Co-Op staff advisor (mhoon@ucsd.edu) to schedule a remote introductory meeting.
Upon becoming a Co-Op corporate partner, the company will pay the $25,000 annual BioCAP membership fee to the Division of Biological Sciences, and our Co-Op Program staff advisor volition piece of work with your talent acquisition team to confirm Co-Op positions and brainstorm recruitment. Delight review "Deadlines for Membership and Recruitment" nether "Current Corporate Partners" for more than information.

Current Co-Op Corporate Partners

Recruitment Guidelines

Equally a Co-Op corporate partner, y'all will receive exceptional customized service and support from our Co-Op squad that will work with you lot to build an optimal recruitment programme to run into your hiring needs.
Companies are responsible for conducting the hiring process, including screening, interviewing, and selecting candidates, and providing the candidate with the offering alphabetic character (students must sign offering alphabetic character past March xv).
Once the visitor confirms interest in becoming a Co-Op corporate partner, our squad volition provide y'all with an invoice for your almanac Co-Op membership and a souvenir understanding that outlines the commitment of the Co-Op partnership.
Once the souvenir agreement is signed, the Co-Op staff counselor will back up you in identifying positions, confirming your hiring needs and developing a marketing programme for your open positions.
The number of students a company hires is determined by the visitor. While it is recommended that a visitor posts all open positions at once, a company can mail service positions throughout the Fall-March fifteen recruitment period. For instance, a company can post 2 positions in October and 2 additional positions in January. Co-Op corporate partners hire an average of four students per year.
Companies are required to mail open positions on Handshake and title positions on Handshake every bit follows: "Co-Op Program: [Insert position title] (one-year commitment)"; e.chiliad., "Co-Op Program: Enquiry Assistant (ane-year commitment)"
- At the acme of the job description, include the following text: This position is role of the UC San Diego Division of Biological Sciences Co-Op Program. Visit hither for more than data. Students must take BILD 82 Job and Internship Preparation: Professional Development Skills in Spring prior to starting their Co-Op position in Summer. If you lot have questions, contact the Co-Op Program staff advisor (mhoon@ucsd.edu).
Email Co-Op position links to the Co-Op Program staff advisor (mhoon@ucsd.edu), who volition promote the positions to your targeted student population, also as the following channels and campus diversity groups and programs, as applicative:
- Division of Biological Sciences weekly undergraduate student newsletter
- Physical Sciences students
- BioScholars (educatee honors organization)
- Biological Sciences Student Organization (BSSA)
- Chancellor's Associate Scholars Program (CASP): Local, high-achieving, talented low-income students
- Biological science Undergraduate and Main's Mentorship Program (BUMMP): Underrepresented minority (URM) students contributing to inquiry
- PATHways to Stalk through Enhanced Access and Mentorship (PATHS): Underrepresented students in science, engineering science, engineering, math (Stalk) and medicine
Notify the Co-Op Program staff advisor (mhoon@ucsd.edu) each time an offer letter of the alphabet has been signed. The advisor will achieve out to the pupil with next steps to confirm their enrollment in the Co-Op Program.
The Co-Op Program staff counselor will reach out to corporate partners each week they are actively recruiting to confirm open positions, and will continue to promote these positions.
The Co-Op Program staff counselor will attain out to corporate partners on a quarterly ground for a progress update on each student.
Should any issues arise with your Co-Op students, please contact the Co-Op Program staff counselor (mhoon@ucsd.edu) immediately.

Deadlines for Membership and Recruitment

Membership Deadlines:

Sept. 15 or year-round: A visitor can become a Co-Op partner any fourth dimension throughout the yr. However, information technology is recommended that companies join by Sept. fifteen in social club to showtime recruitment at the starting time of the Fall quarter.
June 30: If a visitor becomes a Co-Op partner on or before June xxx, the deadline for the visitor to pay the $25,000 annual membership fee is inside three weeks of the engagement information technology receives the invoice or before June 30, whichever comes showtime.
Jan 1: Borderline to pay the $25,000 annual membership fee for companies that become a Co-Op partner on or afterward July 1.
January 1: Borderline to pay the $25,000 annual membership fee for companies that remain Co-Op corporate partners for consecutive years.

Recruitment Deadlines:

Fall through March 15: Recruitment season where companies posts positions on Handshake, UC San Diego promotes positions to students, and companies screen and interview candidates
March xv: Students must sign their offering letter past this date, as they must enroll in BILD 82 Chore Preparation and Internship Training: Professional Development Skills in Leap, prior to starting their Co-Op position in Summertime.
Summer: Educatee starts Co-Op position at visitor.

Meaningful Piece of work and Mentorship Commitment

Companies are required to provide the Co-Op educatee with a mentor who will back up the student during the student's fourth dimension at the visitor. The student volition work with their visitor supervisor to determine who their mentor will be by Sept. 1.
Mentorship includes a weekly, every other week, or monthly discussion between the student and mentor that supports the student's professional person evolution and career success. Students are required to nourish these meetings prepared with questions for their mentor, and are required to report to their Co-Op accomplice and kinesthesia and staff advisors on what they are learning throughout their mentorship.
The visitor is required to provide the student with meaningful work that gives them the opportunity to develop competitive professional skills and to understand how their work impacts the company's mission.

Contact and Run across the Team

Melissa Hoon

Director, Corporate Relations and Professional person Development
Staff Advisor, Co-Op Program

mhoon@ucsd.edu

Melissa supports the Division's Co-Op Program and Corporate Affiliates Program (BioCAP) past engaging students, alumni, and manufacture partners in an effort to prepare students for successful careers and to build a various talent pipeline in the life sciences and healthcare industries. She also teaches career exploratory and communications courses that focus on soft skills to support students' professional person development and career success.
Dr. Joseph Pogliano

Professor, Molecular Biology
Faculty Counselor, Co-Op Programme

jpogliano@ucsd.edu

Joe Pogliano is a Professor of Molecular Biological science and cofounder of Linnaeus Bioscience, Inc. He received B.Due south. degrees in Chemistry and Honors Biology from the University of Illinois, Champaign. He earned his PhD from Harvard Medical Schoolhouse where he studied prison cell division, outer membrane stress responses, antibiotic mechanism of activity and protein secretion. Equally a postdoc at UC San Diego, he studied cytoskeletal proteins involved in plasmid Dna segregation. He joined the UC San Diego faculty in 2003 where his inquiry has focused on using cell biological tools to study bacterial cell growth, Deoxyribonucleic acid replication, cell partition, outer membrane biogenesis, and the mechanisms past which antibiotics target these essential cellular processes. His lab recently discovered the "phage nucleus," a compartment formed by many bacteriophages that replicate in Pseudomonas. Joe and Kit Pogliano adult Bacterial Cytological Profiling (BCP) technology that provides a rapid method for screening for antibiotics against multidrug resistant bacteria and understanding their mechanisms of activeness.
Christopher Sickels

Senior Managing director, Development

csickels@ucsd.edu

Chris serves as the lead philanthropic souvenir officer for Biological Sciences, providing leadership, management, and overall program strategy in planning, analogous, and implementing fundraising activities for the Dean, Faculty Members, volunteers, and other cardinal collaborative partners for the Division. His mission is to build a comprehensive development programme that will appoint local, regional, national, and international donors and alumni to actively participate in personalized partnerships that volition further the mission and strategic goals of the Division to all-time serve our students and maximize our broad touch on in society.
Martha Leon

Director, Development

mleon@ucsd.edu

858-761-1058

Martha serves as a philanthropic gift officeholder for the Partitioning of Biological Sciences, working closely to develop strong relationships with the campus community and the greater San Diego Area. Martha has a passion for educational fundraising and utilizing exciting strategies to engage and align our supporters' interests to the mission of the Sectionalization of Biological Science.
Sarah R. Turner

Acquaintance Director, Development

sturner@ucsd.edu

Sarah's goal is to cultivate and sustain meaningful connections with Biological Sciences' valued alumni both locally and regionally through programming, in-person visits, events, and activities. Her mission is to bring value to alumni past providing opportunities for them to re-connect to UC San Diego and the Division of Biological Sciences.
Kaitlyn Heiskell

Coordinator, Development

kheiskell@ucsd.edu

As the development coordinator for the Division of Biological Sciences, Kaitlyn works with the philanthropic gift officers to implement tillage, fundraising, and donor relations programs, events, and activities that support the mission and goals of the sectionalization.