Zoo Miami will offer a
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
for college students from across the US beginning in summer 2020. This program, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, allows 10 students per year to conduct mentored research with the guidance of Zoo Miami's conservation scientists, conservation practitioners, and scientists from our partner academic institution, Florida International University. The REU program will include formal training in basic skills for science (e.g., study design, data management and analysis, presentation of written and oral results, scientific ethics, science communication). Programmatic activities throughout the 10-week program will emphasize the role of zoos in local and global conservation programs. Projects conducted by students will range from in situ conservation to ex situ conservation to conservation education, and will cover a very wide variety of study organisms.
If any of you work with college students with an interest in wildlife conservation or conservation education and scientific research, please let them know about this program and encourage them to apply. We are particularly interested in applications from students belonging to groups underrepresented in STEM (women, persons with disabilities, and underrepresented minority groups-blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, and American Indians or Alaska Natives), and in applications from students who attend universities with limited access to research (including small liberal arts colleges and community colleges). This program covers travel and housing costs for students, as well as a generous weekly stipend and food allowance.
More information on the program, with descriptions of likely projects and an application are available
here. Applications close February 2nd. For more information, contact
Dr. Steven Whitfield
or
Dr. Elizabeth Anderson
.
