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.
Click on the link below to read more about this opportunity and see if you are eligible to apply. For help with applying, please contact Dr. April Householder, Director of Undergraduate Research and Nationally Competitive Scholarships at aprilh@umbc.edu.
