Student Summer Internships at the Yale Peabody Museum

Research Project: Vertebrate Zoology—Ornithology

Mentor: Richard O. Prum
William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Curator of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology),
Yale Peabody Museum
richard.prum@yale.edu | Website
Division of Vertebrate Zoology Ornithology Website

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Research in Ornithology
There are diverse opportunities for internships in Ornithology with Dr. Prum, who is pursuing research on a breadth of topics, including research on feathers and plumage coloration such as spectrophotometric analyzes of plumage coloration, mathematical visualization of how color diversity looks to birds, and research on the physics of avian structural coloration. Students with any background in molecular biology can do work on molecular mechanisms of feather development in chick embryos.

Dr. Patricia Brennan, a postdoc in the Prum Lab, is doing work on duck breeding biology in Litchfield, Connecticut, that would involve behavioral observations and experiments on captive ducks.

Dr. Krystof Zyskowski, Vertebrate Zoology Collections Manager is an expert on the evolution of nest architecture and can supervise research on topics in nest evolution. Zyskowski also runs our ornithological field research program in South America.

Students interested in ornithological research can contact Drs. Prum, Zyskowski and Brennan directly.

To Apply

Interested? Send a one- to two-page project description, along with a letter of support from the mentor of this research project, to the internship program coordinator:

Eric Lazo-Wasem
Senior Collections Manager
Division of Invertebrate Zoology
Peabody Museum of Natural History
Yale University
P.O. Box 208118
New Haven, CT 06520-8118 USA

203.432.3784
Fax 203.432.9816
eric.lazo-wasem@yale.edu


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