The Field Museum offers a wealth of opportunities for science students at all levels, from residency programs and internships to scholarships and fellowships.
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University of Chicago: Committee on Evolutionary Biology (CEB)
CEB is a unique interdepartmental and interinstitutional graduate training program based out of the Biological Sciences Division at the University of Chicago. CEB has consistently been ranked among the best evolutionary biology graduate programs. The program has been training graduate students for more than 40 years. Of the over 130 CEB PhD graduates since 1968, the vast majority has gone on to productive professional careers in universities and museums and in public education and policy. Faculty in this program comes from the University of Chicago, the Field Museum, Brookfield Zoo, Lincoln Park Zoo, Argonne National Laboratories, Morton Arboretum, and the Chicago Botanic Garden.
University of Chicago: Committee on Evolutionary Biology (CEB)
CEB is a unique interdepartmental and interinstitutional graduate training program based out of the Biological Sciences Division at the University of Chicago. CEB has consistently been ranked among the best evolutionary biology graduate programs. The program has been training graduate students for more than 40 years. Of the over 130 CEB PhD graduates since 1968, the vast majority has gone on to productive professional careers in universities and museums and in public education and policy. Faculty in this program comes from the University of Chicago, the Field Museum, Brookfield Zoo, Lincoln Park Zoo, Argonne National Laboratories, Morton Arboretum, and the Chicago Botanic Garden.
University of Illinois at Chicago: Field Museum Anthropology Program
The joint Ph. D. program was established in 1995. Besides teaching three courses a year collectively at UIC, Field Museum anthropology curators are all adjunct professors and members of UIC’s graduate faculty, chairing twelve doctoral committees in 2015. They also serve on admissions and graduate funding committees and on search and promotion committees for teaching and faculty positions. UIC anthropology professors serve as Adjunct curators at the museum and serve on promotion and recruitment committees as well. The joint program established a postdoctoral teaching and research program in 2011. Three postdoctoral scientists taught four classes collectively and conducted research at the museum, jointly funded by museum endowments for collections & research and by funds from the LAS Dean’s office at UIC.
Northwestern University: Field Museum Collaborative PhD Program in Anthropology
Established in 2001, the collaborative PhD program in anthropology provides Northwestern students and faculty access to museum collections and field programs for training and joint research. Besides teaching one course every other year collectively at NU, five museum anthropology curators are adjunct professors and members of NU’s graduate faculty. One museum curator has co-chaired two doctoral committees since 2010. NU anthropology professors may serve as adjunct curators at the museum.
