The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History is delighted to offer an expanded summer internship program for Yale undergraduate students.
Interns will participate in the rich variety of research taking place in the Yale Science Hill community, and will work on a semi-independent project with a mentor using the Yale Peabody Museum’s diverse collections. Interns may work with a host scientist as part of an ongoing research program, or may choose to design a project that investigates a topic of interest.
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***We are pleased to announce the 2012 Peabody Museum Summer Internship recipients:
Georgia Lill (Mentor: K. Zyskowski): Field collecting of bird nests for image analysis of structural properties.
Natalie Morningstar (Mentor: E. Sargis): A morphometric reevaluation of Tupaia taxonomy.
Chris Takita (Mentor: A. Monteiro): Cryptic wing pattern sexual dimorphism in nymphalid butterflies.
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As part of the fulfillment of the internship, at its completion students will be expected to give a short presentation on their summer research project and also submit a short essay on their research experience for the fall issue of the Yale Environmental News.
Click on the links below for descriptions of topics and projects. Contact the listed mentor for more information.
Division of Botany/The Yale Herbarium
Patrick Sweeney | Research Interests
Collections Manager, Yale Peabody Museum
Division of Entomology
Antónia Monteiro| Research Interests
Assistant Professor, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Assistant Curator, Yale Peabody Museum
Larry Gall| Research Interests
Informatics Manager, Entomology, Yale Peabody Museum
Division of Invertebrate Paleontology
Derek Briggs | Research Interests
Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Geology & Geophysics, Yale Department of Geology & Geophysics; Curator, Director, Yale Peabody Museum
Susan Butts | Research Interests
Senior Collections Manager, Yale Peabody Museum
Division of Invertebrate Zoology
Eric Lazo-Wasem | Research Interests
Senior Collections Manager, Yale Peabody Museum
Division of Paleobotany
Leo J. Hickey | Research Interests
Professor, Yale Department of Geology & Geophysics; Curator, Yale Peabody Museum
Shusheng Hu | Research Interests
Collections Manager, Yale Peabody Museum
Division of Vertebrate Paleontology
Jacques Gauthier | Research Interests
Professor, Yale Department of Geology & Geophysics; Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and Vertebrate Zoology, Yale Peabody Museum
Division of Vertebrate Zoology
Thomas J. Near | Research Interests
Associate Professor, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Associate Curator (Ichthyology), Yale Peabody Museum
Richard O. Prum | Research Interests
William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Curator (Ornithology), Yale Peabody Museum
Eric J. Sargis | Research Interests
Professor, Yale Department of Anthropology; Curator (Mammalogy), Yale Peabody Museum
David K. Skelly | Research Interests
Professor of Ecology, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies; Curator (Herpetology), Yale Peabody Museum
Greg Watkins-Colwell | Research Interests
Collections Manager, Yale Peabody Museum
Kristof Zyskowski | Research Interests
Collections Manager, Yale Peabody Museum
Interested? Send a one- to two-page project description, along with a letter of support from the Museum staff member or faculty curator you hope to work with, to the internship program coordinator:
Eric Lazo-Wasem
Senior Collections Manager
Division of Invertebrate Zoology
Peabody Museum of Natural History
Yale University
P.O. Box 208118
New Haven, CT 06520-8118 USA
203.432.3784
Fax 203.432.9816
eric.lazo-wasem@yale.edu
