Biology Department Newsletter
ACADEMIC, RESEARCH & INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Golden Gate National Recreation Area seeks Wildlife Monitoring Intern for western snowy plovers, northern spotted owls, mission blue butterflies and bank swallows. Application deadline: February 26. $25/day plus housing in Marin Headlands, Sausalito provided. Email resume and cover letter to William Merkle,
Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, California offers 4-week (June 25-July 24) microbial physiology, ecology and evolution lectures, labs and field work. Application deadline: March 1. For more information, visit: http://hmc.stanford.edu
Chicago Botanic Garden offers summer field research internships for NSF-funded evolution and ecology plants and plant-animal interactions in fragmented prairies project. Housing and stipend included. Application deadline: March 5. For more information, visit: http://echinacea.umn.edu/ or contact Stuart Wagenius, 847-835-6978,
University of Nevada, Reno and Great Basin Institute offers undergraduate summer research experience studying fire effects on watershed restoration, June 7-August 13. $4250 stipend plus housing on campus included. Full-time student with junior or senior status required. Application deadline: March 8. For more information, please click here.
Pennington Marine Science Center, Camp Emerald Bay, Santa Catalina Island, CA seeks Marine Science Education and Aquarist Interns, May 30-September 1. Room, board and stipend included. Application deadline: March 12. For more information, contact: Kevin Erickson, , 310-510-1795 ext. 36
SF State’s Department of Biology offers summer undergraduate Ecological and Evolutionary Developmental Biology research experience, June 7-August 13. Assistance with living and travel expenses plus $4,500 stipend included. Application deadline: March 12. For more information, contact: , , or visit: http://biology.sfsu.edu/faculty-pages/reu
Field Assistant needed for 3-6 month (September 2010-March 2011) coral reef study, Comoros Islands. Deadline: March 15. Send cover letter, resume and two letters of reference to:
University of Virginia’s Mountain Lake Biological Station offers summer field-based undergraduate and graduate courses and workshops focused on ecology, evolution, physiology and behavior. Application deadline: March 15. For more information, visit: http://mlbs.org/courses.html
University of Glasgow seeks field assistants to investigate individual variation in steroid hormones and fitness in blue tits population, Loch Lomond National Park, Scotland, April-June. Basic living costs provided. Application deadline: March 19. For more information, visit: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/scene/ or contact Lindsay Henderson,
NASA Ames Research Center offers paid 10-12 week summer graduate student internship opportunities in biotechnology and fundamental space biology. Application deadline: March 20. For more information, visit: http://uarc.ucsc.edu/sti/grad_09.shtml or contact
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Science and Technology offers post graduate internship opportunity for Water Quality Standards Program (#EPA Water 2010-154). Full-time for one year position. Annual stipend: $43K-66K. For more information, contact: ,,
University of Washington/Friday Harbor offers spring (March 29-June 4) and summer (July 19-August 20) courses. For more information, visit: http://depts.washington.edu/fhl/student/Spring2010.html orhttp://depts.washington.edu/fhl/studentSummer2010.html#SumB-1
Science Foundation, Ireland, offers undergraduate summer school program in evolutionary biology and bioinformatics beginning June 8. $300 Euro stipend and assistance with travel included. For more information, visit: http://bioinf.nuim.ie/ureka/ or contact
University of Colorado, Boulder offers 2-week summer ecosystem field study courses, June 6-July 31. Cost: $1,400 includes meals, camping, travel during course, and equipment. To learn more, visit: www.coefs.org
Danta: Association for Conservation of the Tropics and State University of New York, Oneonta offers summer tropical biology field courses in Costa Rica. For more information, visit: www.DANTA.INFO
UCSF’s Division of Vascular Surgery seeks undergraduate and graduate students to study in vitro and in vivo models of vascular disease. Email resume to
Smithsonian/Bocas del Toro Research Station 2010 Training in Tropical Taxonomy offers 2-week summer courses. For more information, visit: http://striweb.si.edu/taxonomy_training
FUNDING: SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS
California Pre-Doctoral Program supports educational and economic disadvantaged upper division or graduate CSU students who want to pursue a Ph.D. Application deadline: March 2. For more information, visit: http://calstate.edu/PreDoc/Application.shtml or contact Dr. Joy Viveros, 415-405-2128,
The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology offers a Libbie H. Hyman Memorial Scholarship ($1k) to support graduate research at a marine, freshwater or terrestrial field station. Application deadline: March 5. For more information, contact Dr. Bruno Pernet, 562-985-5378,
San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Association of Environmental Professionals offers scholarships for full-time graduate and undergraduate students. Application deadline: March 15. For more information, visit: http://sfbayaep.org/ (click on “student section”) or contact:
SF State Department of Biology offers multiple undergraduate and graduate student scholarships. Application deadline: March 18. For more information, visit: http://biology.sfsu.edu
SF State’s Alumni Association offers multiple undergraduate and graduate student scholarships for Fall 2010. Application deadline: April 8. For more information, visit: www.sfsu.edu/~alumni/scholarship.htm
National Research Council of the National Academies sponsors numerous awards for graduate, postdoctoral and senior researchers at federal laboratories and affiliated institutions. 2010 deadlines: May 1, August 1, November 1. For more information, call 202-334-2760, email: , or visit: www.national-academies.org/rap
Brunei Darussalam Government Scholarships provide students with the opportunity to study at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam. For more information, please click here.
