To
date, in 2009 a total of 67 internship
appointments have been recorded by the National
Museum of Natural History, with 47 interns
currently in-residence, 20 anticipated to
start their appointment soon, 0 who have already
completed their internship, 0 who decline
to be included in the listing, and 0 whose
registered internship was terminated, not
successfully completed or declined.
The
following is a list of students selected for
internship positions at Smithsonian's National
Museum of Natural History. This list includes
the student's name, the affiliated institution
during their internship, the title of the
internship project, the name of the supervisor/sponsoring
NMNH staff, the assigned NMNH unit/office
in which the internship was conducted, and
the dates of the appointment.
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*AGARD,
Christopher.
Howard University. Investigating the use
of the tail and effects of tail shedding
in sympatric spiny-lizards. Working with
Roy McDiarmid. Department of Vertebrate
Zoology, Amphibians and Reptiles. 20-Oct-08
to 29-Sep-09.
*AHMED,
Ambareen.
George Washington University. Scanning
scientific reprints as archival copies;
filing reprints into the Crustacea Library
collection. Working with Marilyn Schotte.
Department of Invertebrate Zoology. 22-Dec-08
to 9-Jan-09.
*AMES,
Heidi.
Pennsylvania State University. Working
with the Global Volcanism network. Working
with Rick Wunderman. Department of Mineral
Sciences. 20-Dec-08 to 9-Jan-09.
BETZ,
Barbara.
Macalester College. Organizing information
for the publication on the deer stone
project field report. Working with Bill
Fitzhugh. Department of Anthropology.
29-Sep-08 to 1-Jun-09.
*BONDE,
Sophia.
Assisting with the start up of the membership
program. Working with Jennifer Williams.
Office of Development. 9-Sep-08 to 1-Jun-09.
*BROWN,
Michael.
University of Maryland. Digital imaging
and DNA barcoding of beetles. Working
with Terry Erwin and Christy Geraci. Department
of Entomology. 9-Sep-08 to 15-Jan-09.
*BROWNING,
Jessica.
Indian
River Community College.
Animal
husbandry, laboratory and field work related
to maintaining living models of marine
ecosystems used for public education.
Working
with Bill Hoffman. Smithsonian Marine
Station, Fort Pierce.
28-Aug-08 to 29-Aug-09.
*CHAMBERLAIN,
Peter.
Indian River Community College. Animal
husbandry, laboratory and field work related
to maintaining living models of marine
ecosystems used for public education.
Working with Bill Hoffman. Smithsonian
Marine Station, Fort Pierce. 26-Jun-08
to 25-Jun-09.
*CHATMAN,
Kira.
George Washington University. filling
copy orders for researchers using the
National Anthroplogical Archives. Working
with Daisy Njoku. Department of Anthropology.
3-Nov-08 to 22-May-09.
*CHUGHTAI,
Zenit.
Winter Break Internship. Michigan State
University. Investigating and maintaining
the Museums social networking pages, including
adding new content and spaces. Working
with Dennis Hasch. Office of Information
Technologies. 15-Dec-08 to 9-Jan-09.
*CORBETT,
Lia.
T.C. Williams High School. Assisting with
the implementation and design of an ant
workshop for local public schools. Working
with Ted Schultz and Natasha Mehdiabadi.
Department of Entomology. 15-Sep-08 to
31-May-09.
*DANG,
Tam.
Winter
Break Internship. George
Mason University. Studying the diversity
of leaf-litter Pheidole ants in Guyana,
DNA barcoding, ad auto-montage digital
images. Working with Ted Schultz and
Natasha Mediahbadi. Department of Entomology.
22-Dec-08 to 23-Jan-09.
*DINWIDDIE,
April.
Mount Holyoke College. Identifying Mordellid
beetles. Working with David Furth. Department
of Entomology. 11-Aug-08 to 31-Aug-09.
*FOLTZ,
Christine.
George Washington University. Assisting
with starch and phytolith research.
Working with Dolores Piperno. Department
of Anthropology. 8-Oct-08 to 31-May-09.
*FREEMAN,
Aaron.
University of Maryland, College Park.
Linguistic analysis of ethnobotanical
data extracted from herbarium collections.
Working with Rusty Russell. Department
of Botany. 11-Aug-08 to 31-Aug-09.
*GARDNER,
Pamela.
Indian
River Community College.
Animal
husbandry, laboratory and field work
related to maintaining living models
of marine ecosystems used for public
education.
Working
with Bill Hoffman. Smithsonian Marine
Station, Fort Pierce.
6-Jun-08 to 05-Jun-09.
*GREEN,
Jenna.
George Washington University. Creating
life tables and visuals to assist in
preparation of paleoanthropology publications.
Working with Doug Ubelacker. Department
of Anthropology. 1-Apr-08 to 9-Mar-09.
*HEDRICK,
Brandon.
Emory University. Assisting with the
Rock and Ore collection. Working with
Leslie Hale. Department of Mineral Sciences.
22-Dec-08 to 9-Jan-09.
*HENSLEY,
Stephanie.
George Washington University. Assisting
with logging in anthropoological collections
and loan of objects for the "Written
in Bone" exhibit. Working with
Douglas Owsley. Department of Anthropology.
4-Aug-08 to 28-Feb-09.
*HILL,
Ashley.
Florida Institute of Technology. Working
on the USAP project to provide a database
of descriptions of species collected
in the Antarctic. Working with Rafael
Lemaitre. Department of Invertebrate
Zoology. 29-Sep-08 to 31-Mar-09.
*IMPARATO,
Maura.
Developing a training guide for volunteer
docents in the Sant Ocean Hall. Working
with Hal Banks. Office of Education. 7-Oct-08
to 17-Apr-09.
*JORDAN,
Asha.
School Without Walls High School. Introducing
guests to the Butterfly Pavilion exhibit
and reminding them of the rules. Working
with Dan Babbitt. Office of Education.
29-Sep-08 to 31-May-09.
*JUENGST,
Sara.
Vanderbilt University. Cataloging and
analyzing archaeological data. Working
with Bill Fitzhugh. Department of Anthropology.
8-Sep-08 to 3-Jan-09.
*KOCH,
Sandra.
FBI Laboratory. Learning feather identification
using whole feathers and microscopic structures.
Working with Carla Dove. Department of
Vertebrate Zoology, Birds. 17-Jun-08 to
16-Jun-09.
*KOEN,
Ashley.
George Washington University. Assisting
with the Anthropology in the Museum
collections training course. Working
with Candace Greene. Department of Anthropology.
6-Dec-08 to 31-May-09.
*KOENIG,
Erika.
Hammond High School. Using Treemap to
visualize the progress of the Encyclopedia
of Life. Working with Cynthia Parr. Office
of the Associate DIrector for Research
and Collections. 17-Oct-08 to 30-Jun-09.
*KOPSTEIN,
Mickey.
Winter Break Internship. College of William
and Mary. Investigating and maintaining
the Museums social networking pages, including
adding new content and spaces. Working
with Dennis Hasch. Office
of Information Technologies.
15-Dec-08 to 19-Jan-09.
*KORAB,
Margaret "Molly".
School Without Walls High School. Assisting
with a human resources project. Working
with Diana Munn. Office of the Director.
3-Nov-08 to 23-Jan-09.
*KRANZ,
Rebecca.
Curation and identification of Hymenoptera
specimens. Working with Michael Gates.
Department of Entomology. 8-Dec-08 to
15-Feb-09.
*KURSH,
Elspeth.
George Washington University. Assisting
with preparations for the "Written
in Bone" exhibit. Working with Doug
Owsley and Cathy Hawks. Department of
Anthropology. 15-Sep-08 to 6-Mar-09.
*LITTLE,
Morgan.
George Washington University. Working
on an curating the Discovery Room collections.
Working with Amy Bolton. Office of Education.
1-Oct-07 to 31-Dec-08.
*LIPMAN,
Hannah.
George Washington University. Categorizing
and documenting processes used for the
archeology collections. Working with James
Krakker. Department of Anthropology. 12-Nov-08
to 30-May-09.
*LOUTON,
Jessica.
Winter Break Internship. George Mason
University. Studying the diversity of
leaf-litter Pheidole in Guyana;
DNA barcoding and producing digital auto-montage
images of specimens. Working with Ted
Schultz and Natasha Mehdiabadi. Department
of Entomology. 15-Dec-08 to 16-Jan-09.
*MARQUARDT,
Amy.
Winter Break Internship. Coe College.
Measuring levels of pesticide and other
harmful chemicals in the museum's anthropological
collections. Working with Eric Hollinger.
Department of Anthropology. 15-Dec-08
to 16-Jan-09.
*MARQUEDANT,
Zoe.
Holtan-Arms High School. Assisting with
the upkeep of the Butterfly exhibit. Working
with Dan Babbitt. Office of Education,
Insect Zoo. 9-Jun-08 to 29-May-09.
*MARTINEU,
Michelle.
T.C. Williams High School. Assisting with
the implementation and design of an ant
workshop for local public schools. Working
with Ted Schultz and Natasha Mehdiabadi.
Department of Entomology. 15-Sep-08 to
31-May-09.
*NGUYEN,
Huyen.
American University. Studying avian DNA
and phylogenetic relationships. Working
with Mike Braun. Department of Vertebrate
Zoology, Birds. 11-Sep-08 to 30-May-09.
*PARADIS,
Brendan.
Indian
River Community College.
Animal
husbandry, laboratory and field work
related to maintaining living models
of marine ecosystems used for public
education.
Working
with Bill Hoffman. Smithsonian Marine
Station, Fort Pierce.
28-Aug-08 to 29-Aug-09.
*PLANAS,
Dawn.
Austin College. Documenting and conserving
Alaska Native objects. Working with
Landis Smith. Department of Anthropology.
20-Oct-08 to 13-Mar-09.
*POLANCO,
Michelle-Marie.
George Washington University. Copying
documents for researchers in the National
Anthropological Archives. Working with
Daisy Njoku. Department of Anthropology.
10-Oct-08 to 22-May-09.
*POLLOCK,
Amanda "Kai".
Winter Break Internship. Thomas Nelson
COmmunity College. Organizing and recording
rock specimens. Working with Leslie
Hale. Department of Mineral Sciences.
15-Dec-08 to 9-Jan-09.
*REGELSKI,
Christina.
University of Virginia. Investigating
and maintaining the Museums social networking
pages, including adding new content
and spaces. Working with Dennis Hasch.
Office of Information Technoligies.
15-Dec-08 to 9-Jan-09.
*ROBINSON,
Emily.
George Washington University. Assisting
with the modernization of marine invertebrate
collections. Working with Rafael Lemaitre.
Department of Invertebrate Zoology. 2-Sep-08
to 31-Jan-09.
*SCILINGO,
Stephanie.
George Mason University. Converting Antarctic
invertebrate material to digital media.
Working with Rafael Lameitre. Department
of Invertebrate Zoology. 29-Sep-08 to
29-Mar-09.
*SEWEJKIS,
Ellen.
Indian River Community College. Animal
husbandry, laboratory and field work related
to maintaining living models of marine
ecosystems used for public education.
Working with Bill Hoffman. Smithsonian
Marine Station, Fort Pierce. 21-Jun-08
to 20-Jun-09.
*SHELLEY,
William.
University of Miami. Assisting with the
conservation of Alaska Native objects.
Working with Landis Smith. Department
of Anthropology. 6-Oct-08 to 2-Oct-09.
*STEVENS-KITTNER,
Norah.
Winter Break Internship. Guilford College.
Working with Nancy Knowleton and Kristin
Hultgren. Department of Invertebrate Zoology.
15-Dec-08 to 9-Jan-09.
*STOEPLER,
Teresa.
George Washington University. Sorting,
curating and identifying Hymenoptera parasitoids
reared from caterpillars. Working with
Michael Gates. Department of Entomology.
20-Oct-08 to 15-May-09.
*TILLER,
Jennifer.
Howard University. Comparing morphological
changes between four types of lizards
in the Gonatodes family. Working with
Traci Hartsell. Department of Vertebrate
Zoology, Amphibians and Reptiles. 10-Sep-08
to 9-May-09.
*TUBBS,
Dylan.
University of Maryland, College Park.
Cateloguing hominid artifacts. Working
with Jennifer Clark. Department of Anthropology.
16-Nov-08 to 30-May-09.
*VANATA,
Tristan.
Winter Break Internship. Virginia Commonwealth
University. Assisting with insect drawing
preparations and photo editing. Working
with Marie Metz. Department of Entomology.
15-Dec-08 to 9-Jan-09.
*WATSON,
Amanda.
Qunnipiac University. Studying public
affairs. Working with Kelly Carnes. Office
of Public Affairs. 2-Sep-08 to 31-Aug-09.
Intern
Statistics for FY '08
Although
most of our reporting is
based on calendar year,
the Museum also follows
a fiscal year (FY '08: 1
Oct 07 to 30 Sep 08) for
annual reporting. From 1
Oct 07 to 31 Dec 07 an additional
25 internship appointments
were recorded at NMNH.
There
were 29 appointments that
carried over from ca 2007
to ca 2008. There are 57
appointments that carried
over from FY '08 to FY '09.
In
FY '08
there
were a
total
of 281internship
appointments
administered
by the
National
Museum
of Natural
History.
For comparison,
in FY
'07 NMNH
hosted
239 internship
appointments.
During
FY 08
interns
contributed
90,290
hours,
an increase
of over
10,000
hours
(12,968)
over last
years
contributed
hours
of 77,322
and a
significant
increase
from FY
'07 of
58,092
hours.
There
were 250
new internship
appointments
started
(registered)
during
FY '08.
So,
who hosted
interns
in FY
'08?
-
Office of the Associate
Director for External
Affairs and Public Programs:
19 interns hosted.
Intern Resources
*AGARD,
Christopher.
Howard University. Investigating the use
of the tail and effects of tail shedding
in sympatric spiny-lizards. Working with
Roy McDiarmid. Department of Vertebrate
Zoology, Amphibians and Reptiles. 20-Oct-08
to 29-Sep-09. 
*AHMED,
Ambareen.
George Washington University. Scanning
scientific reprints as archival copies;
filing reprints into the Crustacea Library
collection. Working with Marilyn Schotte.
Department of Invertebrate Zoology. 22-Dec-08
to 9-Jan-09. 
*AMES,
Heidi.
Pennsylvania State University. Working
with the Global Volcanism network. Working
with Rick Wunderman. Department of Mineral
Sciences. 20-Dec-08 to 9-Jan-09.
BETZ,
Barbara.
Macalester College. Organizing information
for the publication on the deer stone
project field report. Working with Bill
Fitzhugh. Department of Anthropology.
29-Sep-08 to 1-Jun-09. 
*BONDE,
Sophia.
Assisting with the start up of the membership
program. Working with Jennifer Williams.
Office of Development. 9-Sep-08 to 1-Jun-09.
*BROWN,
Michael.
University of Maryland. Digital imaging
and DNA barcoding of beetles. Working
with Terry Erwin and Christy Geraci. Department
of Entomology. 9-Sep-08 to 15-Jan-09.
*CHATMAN,
Kira.
George Washington University. filling
copy orders for researchers using the
National Anthroplogical Archives. Working
with Daisy Njoku. Department of Anthropology.
3-Nov-08 to 22-May-09. 
*CHUGHTAI,
Zenit.
Winter Break Internship. Michigan State
University. Investigating and maintaining
the Museums social networking pages, including
adding new content and spaces. Working
with Dennis Hasch. Office of Information
Technologies. 15-Dec-08 to 9-Jan-09.
*CORBETT,
Lia.
T.C. Williams High School. Assisting with
the implementation and design of an ant
workshop for local public schools. Working
with Ted Schultz and Natasha Mehdiabadi.
Department of Entomology. 15-Sep-08 to
31-May-09. 
*DANG,
Tam.
Winter
Break Internship. George
Mason University. Studying the diversity
of leaf-litter Pheidole ants in Guyana,
DNA barcoding, ad auto-montage digital
images. Working with Ted Schultz and
Natasha Mediahbadi. Department of Entomology.
22-Dec-08 to 23-Jan-09. 
*DINWIDDIE,
April.
Mount Holyoke College. Identifying Mordellid
beetles. Working with David Furth. Department
of Entomology. 11-Aug-08 to 31-Aug-09.
*FOLTZ,
Christine.
George Washington University. Assisting
with starch and phytolith research.
Working with Dolores Piperno. Department
of Anthropology. 8-Oct-08 to 31-May-09.
*FREEMAN,
Aaron.
University of Maryland, College Park.
Linguistic analysis of ethnobotanical
data extracted from herbarium collections.
Working with Rusty Russell. Department
of Botany. 11-Aug-08 to 31-Aug-09.
*GREEN,
Jenna.
George Washington University. Creating
life tables and visuals to assist in
preparation of paleoanthropology publications.
Working with Doug Ubelacker. Department
of Anthropology. 1-Apr-08 to 9-Mar-09.
*HEDRICK,
Brandon.
Emory University. Assisting with the
Rock and Ore collection. Working with
Leslie Hale. Department of Mineral Sciences.
22-Dec-08 to 9-Jan-09. 
*HENSLEY,
Stephanie.
George Washington University. Assisting
with logging in anthropoological collections
and loan of objects for the "Written
in Bone" exhibit. Working with
Douglas Owsley. Department of Anthropology.
4-Aug-08 to 28-Feb-09. 
*IMPARATO,
Maura.
Developing a training guide for volunteer
docents in the Sant Ocean Hall. Working
with Hal Banks. Office of Education. 7-Oct-08
to 17-Apr-09. 
*JORDAN,
Asha.
School Without Walls High School. Introducing
guests to the Butterfly Pavilion exhibit
and reminding them of the rules. Working
with Dan Babbitt. Office of Education.
29-Sep-08 to 31-May-09. 
*JUENGST,
Sara.
Vanderbilt University. Cataloging and
analyzing archaeological data. Working
with Bill Fitzhugh. Department of Anthropology.
8-Sep-08 to 3-Jan-09. 
*KOEN,
Ashley.
George Washington University. Assisting
with the Anthropology in the Museum
collections training course. Working
with Candace Greene. Department of Anthropology.
6-Dec-08 to 31-May-09.
*KOENIG,
Erika.
Hammond High School. Using Treemap to
visualize the progress of the Encyclopedia
of Life. Working with Cynthia Parr. Office
of the Associate DIrector for Research
and Collections. 17-Oct-08 to 30-Jun-09.
*KOPSTEIN,
Mickey.
Winter Break Internship. College of William
and Mary. Investigating and maintaining
the Museums social networking pages, including
adding new content and spaces. Working
with Dennis Hasch. Office
of Information Technologies.
15-Dec-08 to 19-Jan-09. 
*KORAB,
Margaret "Molly".
School Without Walls High School. Assisting
with a human resources project. Working
with Diana Munn. Office of the Director.
3-Nov-08 to 23-Jan-09. 
*KRANZ,
Rebecca.
Curation and identification of Hymenoptera
specimens. Working with Michael Gates.
Department of Entomology. 8-Dec-08 to
15-Feb-09. 
*KURSH,
Elspeth.
George Washington University. Assisting
with preparations for the "Written
in Bone" exhibit. Working with Doug
Owsley and Cathy Hawks. Department of
Anthropology. 15-Sep-08 to 6-Mar-09.
*LITTLE,
Morgan.
George Washington University. Working
on an curating the Discovery Room collections.
Working with Amy Bolton. Office of Education.
1-Oct-07 to 31-Dec-08. 
*LIPMAN,
Hannah.
George Washington University. Categorizing
and documenting processes used for the
archeology collections. Working with James
Krakker. Department of Anthropology. 12-Nov-08
to 30-May-09. 
*LOUTON,
Jessica.
Winter Break Internship. George Mason
University. Studying the diversity of
leaf-litter Pheidole in Guyana;
DNA barcoding and producing digital auto-montage
images of specimens. Working with Ted
Schultz and Natasha Mehdiabadi. Department
of Entomology. 15-Dec-08 to 16-Jan-09.
*MARQUARDT,
Amy.
Winter Break Internship. Coe College.
Measuring levels of pesticide and other
harmful chemicals in the museum's anthropological
collections. Working with Eric Hollinger.
Department of Anthropology. 15-Dec-08
to 16-Jan-09. 
*MARQUEDANT,
Zoe.
Holtan-Arms High School. Assisting with
the upkeep of the Butterfly exhibit. Working
with Dan Babbitt. Office of Education,
Insect Zoo. 9-Jun-08 to 29-May-09.
*MARTINEU,
Michelle.
T.C. Williams High School. Assisting with
the implementation and design of an ant
workshop for local public schools. Working
with Ted Schultz and Natasha Mehdiabadi.
Department of Entomology. 15-Sep-08 to
31-May-09. 
*NGUYEN,
Huyen.
American University. Studying avian DNA
and phylogenetic relationships. Working
with Mike Braun. Department of Vertebrate
Zoology, Birds. 11-Sep-08 to 30-May-09.
*PLANAS,
Dawn.
Austin College. Documenting and conserving
Alaska Native objects. Working with
Landis Smith. Department of Anthropology.
20-Oct-08 to 13-Mar-09. 
*POLANCO,
Michelle-Marie.
George Washington University. Copying
documents for researchers in the National
Anthropological Archives. Working with
Daisy Njoku. Department of Anthropology.
10-Oct-08 to 22-May-09. 
*POLLOCK,
Amanda "Kai".
Winter Break Internship. Thomas Nelson
COmmunity College. Organizing and recording
rock specimens. Working with Leslie
Hale. Department of Mineral Sciences.
15-Dec-08 to 9-Jan-09. 
*REGELSKI,
Christina.
University of Virginia. Investigating
and maintaining the Museums social networking
pages, including adding new content
and spaces. Working with Dennis Hasch.
Office of Information Technoligies.
15-Dec-08 to 9-Jan-09. 
*ROBINSON,
Emily.
George Washington University. Assisting
with the modernization of marine invertebrate
collections. Working with Rafael Lemaitre.
Department of Invertebrate Zoology. 2-Sep-08
to 31-Jan-09. 
*SCILINGO,
Stephanie.
George Mason University. Converting Antarctic
invertebrate material to digital media.
Working with Rafael Lameitre. Department
of Invertebrate Zoology. 29-Sep-08 to
29-Mar-09. 
*STEVENS-KITTNER,
Norah.
Winter Break Internship. Guilford College.
Working with Nancy Knowleton and Kristin
Hultgren. Department of Invertebrate Zoology.
15-Dec-08 to 9-Jan-09. 
*STOEPLER,
Teresa.
George Washington University. Sorting,
curating and identifying Hymenoptera parasitoids
reared from caterpillars. Working with
Michael Gates. Department of Entomology.
20-Oct-08 to 15-May-09. 
*TILLER,
Jennifer.
Howard University. Comparing morphological
changes between four types of lizards
in the Gonatodes family. Working with
Traci Hartsell. Department of Vertebrate
Zoology, Amphibians and Reptiles. 10-Sep-08
to 9-May-09. 
*TUBBS,
Dylan.
University of Maryland, College Park.
Cateloguing hominid artifacts. Working
with Jennifer Clark. Department of Anthropology.
16-Nov-08 to 30-May-09. 
*VANATA,
Tristan.
Winter Break Internship. Virginia Commonwealth
University. Assisting with insect drawing
preparations and photo editing. Working
with Marie Metz. Department of Entomology.
15-Dec-08 to 9-Jan-09. 
*WATSON,
Amanda.
Qunnipiac University. Studying public
affairs. Working with Kelly Carnes. Office
of Public Affairs. 2-Sep-08 to 31-Aug-09.