Graduate Positions Available

To the FWGNA group,

If any of you know any prospective M.S. graduate students who might be interested in projects involving freshwater gastropods, have them contact our friend Russ Minton directly at <minton@ulm.edu>.

And keep in touch,
Rob

Subject: Fwd: Graduate Positions Available
   Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:37:32 -0500
   From: "Russ Minton" <minton@ulm.edu>
   To: "Dillon Jr, Robert T." <dillonr@cofc.edu>

   Can you please let FWGNA know about these? Thanks!
   Russ



       My lab is looking to recruit two (2) graduate students for the fall semester 2007 to work on projects involving freshwater snails. One project will involve using geometric morphometrics to compare collections of Duck River Lithasia (Pleuroceridae) from the 1970s and 1980s. The other project will look at the freshwater parasites of local snail populations and their susceptibility to exotic trematodes. Graduate teaching assistant positions come with an $8,000 annual stipend and a full tuition waiver.

       I am looking for applicants with a minimum 3.0 undergraduate GPA and minimum 1000 GRE (v+q); please note that these are above the minimum entrance requirements for ULM (see below). Applicants lacking graduate degrees in other biological areas will be given preference. Interested students should contact me directly (minton@ulm.edu <mailto:minton@ulm.edu> ) for additional information and specifics on applying. General information on the department, faculty, facilities, and course offerings can be found at http://www.ulm.edu/biology .

       Students seeking admission to the Biology Graduate Program must first be admitted to the ULM Graduate School. Application forms may be obtained online from the Office of Graduate Studies and Research. In addition to a minimum undergraduate GPA of 2.5, the Biology Graduate Program requires either a score of 900 or higher on the GRE General Test (combined verbal and quantitative scores), or a total of 2400 points when the GPA is multiplied by the combined verbal and quantitative GRE General Test scores. Students must also have taken courses in introductory zoology, introductory botany, introductory microbiology, ecology, genetics, and an upper level physiology class (animal, plant, human, or cell). A limited number of course deficiencies can be taken after admission.

       Monroe is a city of 56,000 people on the banks of the Ouachita River in north-central Louisiana, and serves as the educational, commercial, and economic hub of the Delta parishes. The cost of living is very reasonable, and the city tends to dodge major weather-related events (i.e. no hurricanes recently).

       Russ Minton, Ph.D.
       Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
       University of Louisiana at Monroe
       Monroe, LA 71209-0520
       ph: 318-342-1795
       fax: 318-342-3312
       http://www.ulm.edu/~minton

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