13 STREAMLINING FOR SAVINGS To facilitate the integration of newly hired interns, INL streamlined its process, allowing intern new hires to complete their paperwork securely online and transmit it electronically. Students no longer need to print, sign, scan and return more than 80 pages of material.The result has been an extremely efficient hiring process, saving a minimum of two hours per hire, equaling more than 600 hours of time savings. Also new for 2017 was a transition from one general posting for all internship positions to 15 tailored postings in various program areas. More than 1,900 applicants from 261 universities applied for INL internships. RECRUITING EVENTS California NavalPostgraduateSchool,StanfordUniversity, UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Colorado ColoradoSchoolofMines DC DepartmentofEnergyComputationalScience GraduateFellowship(DOECSGF) Florida UniversityofFlorida Georgia GeorgiaInstituteofTechnology Idaho BoiseStateUniversity,CollegeofEasternIdaho CollegeofSouthernIdaho,CollegeofWestern Idaho,EnergySystemsTechnologyandEducation Center(ESTEC)atIdahoStateUniversity,IdahoState University,UniversityofIdaho Illinois NorthwesternUniversity,UniversityofIllinois- UrbanaChampaign Indiana PurdueUniversity Massachusetts MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology Michigan MichiganTechnologicalUniversity Missouri MissouriUniversityofScienceandTechnology Montana MontanaStateUniversity,MontanaTech NewMexico NewMexicoInstituteofMiningandTechnology, UniversityofNewMexico NewYork RochesterInstituteofTechnology NorthCarolina NorthCarolinaStateUniversity Ohio TheOhioStateUniversity,UniversityofCincinnati Oklahoma UniversityofTulsa Oregon OregonStateUniversity Pennsylvania PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Texas TexasA&MUniversity,UniversityofTexas-Austin Utah UniversityofUtah,UtahStateUniversity,Weber StateUniversity Virginia VirginiaCommonwealthUniversity Washington WashingtonStateUniversity Wisconsin UniversityofWisconsin Wyoming UniversityofWyoming DiversityEvents AmericanIndianScienceandEngineeringSociety (AISES),SocietyforAdvancementofChicanos/ HispanicsandNativeAmericansinScience(SACNAS)