Volunteer, Internships, & Work Study Opportunities
Internship and Volunteer Opportunities
The National Museum of Dentistry offers a range of opportunities to gain experience in the museum world while promoting the benefits of a healthy smile. The opportunities range from specialized tasks associated with the museum’s collection to helping with visitors to the museum. Individuals with all levels of experience and interests are encouraged to apply.
How to Apply
This page features opportunities as they become available. To apply, please fill out the application form found below each description. If you have any questions or issues filling out the form, please contact Patrick Cutter at pcutter@umaryland.edu.
Volunteer Opportunities
Research
Help explore dentistry’s past by researching influential dentists and organizations, objects from our collection, or other dental topics utilzing our archives.
Educator
Help teach visitors to the museum about the importance of healthy smiles and the history of the dental profession by leading group tours and collaborating to create new educational resources and opportunities at the museum.
Collections
Help organize and make public the NMD’s collections which are not currently on display. Photograph, digitize, and curate online collections through working with our staff, objects, and archives.
Volunteer Application
Internship Opportunities
Education and Outreach
Participate in a variety of tasks related to education and outreach including leading tour groups, developing interactive activities involving oral health care and dental history, developing educational resources and information for students, and reaching out to schools, camps, daycares, and other programs to encourage visiting the museum.
Development Assistant
Participate in a variety of tasks related to development including reaching out to current, past, and potential members to discuss the membership opportunities the museum offers, updating donor and membership information in the museum’s records, helping to organize and improve the museum’s brick and plaque program, and developing alternative methods and programs for fundraising.
Curatorial Research
Participate in researching a variety of topics including biographical research on influential dentists, provenance research on objects in the museum’s collection, general research on the history of minorities in dentistry, or research on any dental related topic the intern brings to the attention of the museum that would benefit dental, historical, and medical scholars.
Curatorial Research Internship Description
Digitization Assistant
Participate in a variety of tasks related to collections management including digitizing objects, creating catalog records and metadata for objects, researching provenance of collections objects, and transcribing and creating finding aids for archival materials and the collections.
Digitization Assistant Internship Description
Internship Application
Docent Program
Docent/Tour Guide
Description of Duties:
- Provide interactive tours to the general public and school groups of all ages.
- Provide feedback and help enhance NMD’s educational programs.
Qualifications:
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
- Good communication skills
- Interest in oral health, public health, or history
Availability:
- 6 hours per month (2 tours) minimum plus initial training sessions
- 6 month commitment minimum for non-students
- 3 month commitment minimum for students
Docent Program Application
Work Study Opportunity
Work Study Requirements
AVAILABLE TO UMB STUDENTS ELIGIBLE FOR WORK-STUDY ONLY
The federal government funds Federal Work-Study Employment. It gives eligible students the opportunity to work on or off campus and earn funds on a bi-weekly basis to assist with educational expenses. Federal Work Study earnings can be an alternative to taking on loan debt.Â
Students can work up to 20 hours per week and are paid biweekly based on reported and approved hours. Federal Work-Study funds do not need to be repaid.
Eligibility
To be eligible for Federal Work Study students must:
- Have a valid FAFSA on file for the current academic year.
- Demonstrate financial need as determined by the FAFSA and cost of attendance.
- Be authorized to to work in the U.S.
- Be enrolled in an in-person program of study.
- Be enrolled in a minimum of 6 credits*
- Students requesting FWS for the summer term are not required to be enrolled in summer credits, but must be enrolled for the subsequent fall term.Â
How to Apply
To be reviewed for Federal Work Study eligibility, students must complete the following steps:
- Complete the FAFSA (UMB School Code: 002104)
- Submit the Federal Work Study Request Form. *FWS Request Forms are no longer being accepted for the Fall 2024 Term. The form will become available again in early January for the Spring 2025 Term.Â
- Students enrolled in Dental Post-Grad programs are automatically awarded FWS funds as part of their initial aid offer and are not required to complete the request form.Â
- If the student is determined eligible for Federal Work Study, the award will be added to their aid offer. Students must accept the FWS award on their SURFS account.
- Be hired by an approved FWS job site.
- Submit all required FWS documents.Â
- Receive an approval email from the UMB Office of Student Employment, which will include your start date and pay rate.
Education Program Assistant
hours
Tuesday - Friday: 10am to 4pm
Address
31 S. Greene St. Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone
410-706-0600
The Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry is an auxiliary enterprise of the University of Maryland, School of Dentistry at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
