The Joint Program on Survey Methodology hosts a Junior Fellows program which places students in a paid research assistantship in a Federal statistical agency in the Washington DC area, and provides weekly seminars on topics in survey methodology and careers in survey research.  Examples of agencies include the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Center for Education Statistics, the National Center for Health Statistics, and others.

More program information and application materials can be found online at:

The deadline for applications is December 30, 2013.

http://jpsm.umd.edu/undergraduate/junior-fellow-program-overview