Summer Internships for High School & Undergraduate Students

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Eleven full-time paid summer internships will become available to nine eligible junior or senior high school students and two eligible freshman undergraduate students. Interns have the option of working in one of the following three research departments of the Field Museum: Botany, Geology, and Zoology. Each project will focus on collections. Each intern will work with a dedicated collection staff member, graduate students and other undergraduate interns. Interns will receive training in modern collection management, including computer training, and learn about the various applications of collections-based research. Interns will sort, identify, and database collection specimens and integrate specimens into the collections. After hours, interns have the opportunity to attend a college level course in biological systematics, and present their work at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, Saturday August 11, 2012. Minority and/or female students are especially encouraged to apply.

• Summer internship period: June 18 - August 24
• Duration of individual internships: 6 to 8 weeks, depending on school schedule
• Salary: $9 per hour, 35 hours per week
• Up to $180 local travel allownace for accepted interns
• The application deadline will be April 10, 2012
• Letters of reference will be due April 15, 2012
• Awards will be announced May 5, 2012

2012 Summer Internship Projects

• Botany: The Lichens of Fiji (High School Internship)
• Geology: Documenting Coal-Forming Floras of the Late Carboniferous Period (High School Internship)
• Geology: Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteorics & Polar Studies: Accession of a New Collection (High School Internship)
• Geology: Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteorics & Polar Studies: Reweighing, Photography & Storage of the Murchison Meteorite (High School Internship)
• Geology: Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteorics & Polar Studies: Data Cleaning for the Physical Geology Collection (High School Internship)
• Zoology: Genetic & Morphologic Structure in the Barred Owl (Undergraduate Internship)
• Zoology: Insect Collection Internship: Specimen Transactions (High School Internship)
• Zoology: Insect Collection Internship: Specimen Transactions (Undergraduate Internship)
• Zoology: Insect Collection Internship: Sorting, Specimen Preparation & Care (High School Internship)
• Zoology: Ant Lab Internship: Collection Studies & Molecular Methods (High School Internship)
• Zoology: Ant Lab Internship: Collection Studies & Databasing Techniques (High School Internship)

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