LMSE Research Opportunities
The Academy of Natural Sciences provides numerous opportunities for undergraduate and graduate student and post-doctoral researchers to study systematic biology and evolution. LMSE facilities and funds are available to these affiliates as well as through partnerships with the permanent Academy research staff.
LMSE Post-Doctoral Fellowships
Continuing the Academy’s tradition of world-class systematics research the LMSE has recruited and funded the research of two LMSE Postdoctoral Fellows: Dennis Uit de Weerd and Benjamin Torke. During their two year fellowships these researchers will focus on groups of organisms for which the Academy has strong collections and their research, using the capabilities of the molecular lab, will increase our understanding of the evolutionary history and biogeography of these groups. (Contact Anthony Geneva for more information.)
Bölhke Memorial Endowment Fund
The Böhlke Fund provides support for graduate students and recent postdoctoral researchers to work with the Ichthyology collection and library at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. The fund awards money for travel to Philadelphia and for modest living accommodations available at the Academy. Individual award amounts are generally less than $500 and will be awarded on the basis of both merit and need. (Learn more.)
John J. & Anna H. Gallagher Fellowship
A fellowship for the Study of the Rarer Microscopic, Multicellular Invertebrate Animals, with Priority for the Study of Rotifera. The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia is pleased to offer a unique opportunity for original postdoctoral or sabbatical research on the systematics of microscopic invertebrates with priority for the study of rotifers. The project must be based at the Academy, although fieldwork and visits to other museum collections are encouraged, and the scope should be narrow enough to permit completion during a period of up to twelve months. The research focus must be on systematics and may employ ecological, behavioral, physiological, molecular or developmental tools. The Academy affords many opportunities for collaboration with other systematists. (Learn more.)
Jessup and McHenry Awards
Jessup funds are awarded competitively to students wishing to conduct studies at the postgraduate, doctoral and postdoctoral levels under the supervision or sponsorship of a member of the curatorial staff of the Academy. The Awards are not available for undergraduate study. Such studies may be in any specialty in which these curators have expertise. The McHenry Fund is similarly intended, but is restricted to botanists.
These awards are intended to assist predoctoral and postdoctoral students within several years of receiving their Ph.D's. Students commuting within the Philadelphia area are ineligible.
Round-trip travel costs up to a total of $500.00 for North American (including Mexico and the Caribbean) applicants, and $1000.00 for applicants from other parts of the world, may be available but cannot be guaranteed. The minimum duration of an award is two (2) weeks; the maximum is sixteen (16) weeks. The stipend for subsistence is $300.00 per week. The provision of scientific supplies and equipment is the responsibility of the student and the sponsoring curator. (Learn more.)