Botany and Conservation Biology Research Experience

Fri, 13 Jan 2017 10:49:49 -0500

Title: Botany and Conservation Biology Research at the Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden is pleased to announce the opening of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program that will provide research opportunities for 10 students, for 10 weeks during the summer of 2017. Students will work on independent mentored projects in plant systematics, conservation biology, and ethnobotany. Participants will have access to the Garden’s herbarium of more than 6.5 million specimens, an excellent botanical library, rich garden collections, a laboratory facilities for plant anatomy, microscopy, digital imaging, SEM, and DNA analysis, and the Shaw Nature Reserve – a 2,400 acre ecological preserve featuring prairie, forest, glades, wetlands, and 14 miles of hiking trails.

The program runs from May 30 – August 4, 2017.

Applications are being accepted through March 20, 2017

Benefits include:

REU interns receive food and lodging (if not local),

support for research,

a weekly $525 stipend

Those students studying

Botany

Conservation Biology

Ecology

Biological Sciences

Environmental Science

are encouraged to apply.