Past Event: Summer Internships at the Peabody Museum

The Yale Peabody Museum is delighted to offer a robust summer internship program for Yale undergraduate students! Interns participate in the rich variety of research taking place in the community and will work on a semi-independent project with one or more advisors using the Yale Peabody Museum’s diverse collections and resources.

This year's research projects include:

• Ancient Pharmacology in the Field and Collections
• Assessing changing bird communities in Guilford, CT
• Comparative Anatomy of the Hispaniolan Rain Frog (Eleutherodactylus) Adaptive Radiation
• Craniodental variation and taxonomic boundaries in African guenons (Primates, Cercopithecini)
• Investigating change in black spot disease in freshwater minnows in Kentucky and Tennessee
• Investigating parasitic strepsipterans hiding in the Peabody’s Entomology and Invertebrate Paleontology collections
• Phenotypic Evolution in Large Deep Sea Predators
• The Yale Babylonian Collection Provenance Initiative
• What can a 200-year-old box of plants tell us about New England’s changing flora over the past two centuries?

Details and project descriptions can be found the internship webpage linked above. The project descriptions for the YPM summer internships were developed by the internship advisors. Students are welcome to contact the advisor(s) to propose changes or extensions to these projects, and accompanying budgetary amendments. If so, students should be prepared to describe these changes in the application.