Paid Internships

Gain hands-on experience while working alongside renowned scientists—and jump-start your career in natural sciences research—with a nine-week, museum-based, paid internship.

SSI offers undergraduates important insights into the contributions that collections-based research can make to critical issues such as worldwide threats to biodiversity, and the origins and diversification of life. The SSI is open to current undergraduate students only. 

Gain hands-on experience while working alongside renowned scientists—and gain valuable experience illustrating to communicate science—with a nine-week, museum-based, paid internship. The Biological Illustration Internship offers an opportunity for an illustrator to contribute their expertise to research that helps tackle critical issues such as worldwide threats to biodiversity, and the origins and diversification of life.

 This internship is open to illustrators at any level (post-high school) interested in developing illustration techniques related to biological specimens.