The Institute’s Climate and Growth Fund provides University of Chicago students who have independently secured an unpaid, external summer internship related to topics in energy, the environment and/or climate change with the opportunity to apply for a stipend.

Students may receive a stipend of up to $5,000 from The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth for a selected, 10-week internship. Chosen candidates will be required to provide a summary of their experience and how it was beneficial to their studies following the internship.

Applications for Summer 2026 are now closed. 

Recipients

Summer 2026

Summer 2025

Xinyuan Bao

Summer Intern, 2025, United Nations Environment Programme

Caroline Denniston

Summer Intern, 2025, United Nations Environment Programme

Tony Jiang

Summer Intern, 2025, Silver Leaf Partners

Adrianne Kehne

Summer Intern, 2025, California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, Natural Resources Section

Stephanie Zhao

Summer Intern, 2025, United Nations, Division of Sustainable Development Goals

Summer 2024

Attaullah Abbasi

Summer Intern, 2024, Sui Southern Gas Company

Nayan Chandra Veeranki

Summer Intern, 2024, Gandipet Welfare Society

Lina Gonzalez Paez

Summer Intern, 2024, Southern African Institute for Policy and Research

Lauren Schmidt

Summer Intern, 2024, Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development

Robert Kennedy

Summer Intern, 2024, Miranda Clean Energy GmbH

Yasir Hussain

Summer Intern, 2024, Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority

Minh Nghiem

Summer Intern, 2024, Switchbox