About this opportunity

The Research Experience for Undergraduates Program in Systematics and Evolutionary Biology is funded by the National Science Foundation and has been in place for 24 years. Our program brings approximately eight students to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City each summer for a ten-week experience woking with our curators, faculty, and post-doctoral fellows. Students from two-year and four-year colleges may apply. Research projects span diverse fields of comparative biology including paleontology, genomics, population biology, conservation biology, and phylogenetics and taxonomy. Students have access to the Museum's immense natural history collections as well as state-of-the-art equipment for advanced imaging (CT scanner, SEM, TEM) and genomics (Sanger and pyrosequencing