About this opportunity

The Missouri Botanical Garden is pleased to announce a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program that will provide research opportunities for 10 students, for 10 weeks during the summer. Students will work on independent mentored projects in a variety of subfields of plant systematics, conservation biology, and ethnobotany. Participants will have access to a herbarium of 6.5 million specimens, an excellent botanical library, rich garden collections, a laboratory with 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. Eligibility Students must be returning to an undergraduate degree program in the fall following