Students from all academic backgrounds are welcome to apply for summer or semester-long internships.
UARF can assist you in determining if your internship is eligible for academic credit, law and business students have received academic credit in the past!

When you intern at UARF you can:

• ​Help commercialize new technologies and assist entrepreneurial businesses
• Learn skills outside of your specific field
• Work on cross-disciplinary team of attorneys, business professionals, engineers and scientists
• Receive academic credit!

If you are interested in exploring an internship at UARF
reach out to [email protected]

Current Interns

Christopher Loychik

​Entrepreneurial Program Intern
Chris is a dedicated student at Kent State University, entering his senior year in the fall, majoring in marketing and minoring in finance. Outside of his studies, he's pursuing his pilot's license at Butler Regional Airport in Pennsylvania, showcasing his ambitious spirit. He's also interested in startup support programs, reflecting his entrepreneurial drive. With a passion for learning and adventure, Chris embodies a forward-thinking approach to academics and future endeavors. 

Niraj Jaishwal

​Entrepreneurial Program Intern
I am an International Student from Nepal. I am pursuing a major in Bachelor of Computer Science, a second Major in Applied Mathematics with focus in Data Science and a minor in Statistics. In addition to my academic pursuits, I'm actively engaged in a certificate program offered by Google in Data Analytics enhancing my skills for comprehensive analysis and problem-solving.
I ventured into entrepreneurship, operating a Small Sclae business ( Bag Factory) back in Nepal, where I used to preform most of the technical to administrative work.

Combining my academic endeavors with real-world experience, I'm poised to tackle challenges with a blend of theoretical knowledge and practical insight.

Our Past Interns

Alyssa Riker​

Accounting and Finance Intern
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Alyssa is originally from Portage, Michigan and she is a senior studying Accounting with a minor in Spanish. Alyssa is also a member of the University of Akron's women's swim and dive team!​

Rachel Wasik

​Entrepreneurial Program Intern
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Rachel will complete her bachelor’s degree at the University of Akron in Spring 2024. She is studying mechanical engineering with a minor in computer science.
​She has prior work experience in research and development (R&D), as well as manufacturing. Outside of school and work, she enjoys hiking and baking. 

Maximilian Silvia 
Legal Intern

Maximilian was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and studied chemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder. After undergrad he worked at a pharmaceutical company for five years until deciding to leave the lab to pursue a career in law.
Maximilian is currently an Akron Law 2L hoping to focus his career on IP litigation after graduation.

Anna Radachy
Program and Data intern

Anna worked alongside with our program coordinators to help with running our I-Corps program in 2020 for almost two years. She would guide teams through sessions, conduct market research and customer interviews, both are part of our I-Corps program, and heard about dozens of new start-up ideas.

Read a blog post about her intern experience here!

Isioma Okenimkpe
Event Planning and Innovation Research

During her year internship at UARF, Isioma coordinate events specifically to help entrepreneurs with common issues they encounter as they build their business in 2019. Though once the pandemic hit, she quickly pivoted he focus to innovations of Akron and helped startups when they needed it. She also wrote some great blogs for us, you can read al of them on our Blog page, or read this one we linked below!

Read about her blog post, "Communication For Introverts"

Brett Nola

Brett hopes to use his law degree and experience at UARF to find a career in transactional legal and business work. For the past year Brett has assisted startups with legal support, the due diligence process, and organizing and providing feedback for the I-Corps program. UARF has helped him develop numerous legal skills, including reviewing and drafting agreements. In addition, he has learned what it really takes to start a business and how to make that process be as efficient as possible. 

Alizeh Khalifa

Since working with UARF, Alizeh has gotten experience in handling social media, creating the new UARF webpage, and making different marketing content such as flyers and videos. Being able to improve her editing and networking skills are some of the major benefits Alizeh has gained through interning here. Alizeh says her best experience was gaining another internship with the Northeast Ohio Student Venture and it is through both these internships that she has had the chance to work with various startups in the Akron area. 

Courtney Klingenberger

Courtney started with UARF and worked on updating the website; assisting UARF programming such as Starting Line, ArchAngels, and I-Corps; and directly serving Akron-area startup companies. This will give Courtney valuable experience in business development and startup company support tasks, which will prove useful as Courtney completes her degree. Other than entrepreneurship, Courtney loves travel and her three rescue dogs. She spent winter break journeying through China and hopes to train her chihuahua Lily to accompany her on the next adventure. 

Special thanks to UARF's internship program sponsor: