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R. Bruce McMillan Museum Internship
The Illinois State Museum is seeking applications from college
undergraduate or graduate students for a 2009 three-month internship in
research and collections. The internship program provides an opportunity
for students to gain firsthand research and collection experiences while
working with Museum scholars in the fine and decorative arts,
anthropology (archaeology, bioanthropology, and ethnology), and natural
and earth sciences, including geology (paleontology, mineralogy), botany
(biogeography, palynology, paleoecology) and zoology (malacology,
entomology, herpetology, and ornithology, and mammalogy). The Museum has
geographic information system and genetics laboratories and large-scale
comparative collections for botanical, archaeobotanical,
zooarchaeological, and paleontological research, as well as facilities
for archaeomagnetic dating. The Illinois State Museum has an
interdisciplinary Landscape History Program and curates over 10.5
million objects and specimens that document long-term changes in
climate, landforms, plant and animal communities, and human culture and
interactions with the land. To gain a better idea of the Museum’s
research and collection programs, please visit our Web site at
www.museum.state.il.us.
Interns will be based at the Illinois State Museum in Springfield,
Illinois and will work in the Museum on 502 South Spring Street and/or
the Museum’s Research and Collections Center on 1011 East Ash Street.
The internship pays a stipend of $1000 a month. To apply, please submit
a letter of application describing your academic credentials and
background, research interests, potential projects that you could pursue
with the Museum’s collections, the preferred three-month interval for
the internship, a copy of your curriculum vitae, and the names of three
professional references to Dr. Bonnie Styles, Museum Director, 502 South
Spring Street, Springfield, IL, 62706-5000, [log in to unmask]
For optimal consideration applications should be received by May 8,
2009. The internship may be scheduled anytime from June 1 through the
end of the year.
This internship program was named for and was established to honor R.
Bruce McMillan, Museum Director Emeritus. An archaeologist by training,
Dr. McMillan worked for the Museum for 36 years and served as Director
for 29 years until his retirement in 2005.
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Beth Shea
Education Chairperson
Illinois State Museum
502 S. Spring St.
Springfield IL 62706-5000
217-782-5507
217-782-1254 (FAX)
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www.museum.state.il.us
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