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Four new graduate assistantships have been funded to support outstanding students seeking an MS degree in Biology at Fort Hays State University while working at the new Kansas Wetlands Education Center. The graduate assistantships will be available for students who will begin graduate studies in the fall semester of 2008. Please inform prospective applicants about these assistantships and the excellent reputation of the graduate programs in Biology at Fort Hays State University. The Kansas Wetlands Education Center, located at Cheyenne Bottoms in central Kansas, will be a branch museum of the Sternberg Museum of Natural History. Cheyenne Bottoms is the largest marsh in the interior of the United States. It is approximately 70 miles southeast of Fort Hays State University and consists of three units: 19,857 acres known as the Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area and managed by the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks; 7,200 acres known as the Cheyenne Bottoms Preserve and managed by The Nature Conservancy; and 21,820 acres known as the Quivera National Wildlife Refuge and managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The role of the Kansas Wetlands Education Center will be to interpret wetlands and educate the public. The facility is under construction and is scheduled to open in the autumn of 2008. Persons interested in applying for the graduate assistantships must seek admission as graduate students in the Department of Biological Sciences at Fort Hays State University (for application procedures, go to http://www.fhsu.edu/gradschl/forms.shtml). Guidelines for graduate students in the Department of Biological Sciences can be reviewed at http://www.fhsu.edu/biology/GradStudentGuidelinesFall2005.pdf. Students who wish to pursue graduate studies in any area of Biology that relates to wetlands are encouraged to apply. A partial list of appropriate areas of study includes ornithology, wildlife management, conservation biology, mammalogy, herpetology, aquatic biology, ecology, wetland microbial ecology, ichthyology, and entomology. Consult the list of faculty members in the Department of Biological Sciences at Fort Hays State University ( http://fhsu.edu/biology/faculty-staff.shtml) to ascertain whether or not your area of research interest is covered. The graduate assistantships will be awarded in the spring (probably March or April) of 2008. They are for one year and are renewable for a second year. The stipend is $12,000. For additional information about these graduate assistantships, contact me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or Dr. Elmer Finck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Fort Hays State University. Jerry Choate J. R. Choate, Director Sternberg Museum of Natural History Fort Hays State University 3000 Sternberg Drive Hays, KS 67601-2006, USA Phone: 785-628-5664 Fax: 785-628-4518 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Museum website: http://www.fhsu.edu/sternberg Elmer J. Finck Professor and Chair Department of Biological Sciences Fort Hays State University 600 Park Street Hays, KS 67601-4099 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] webpage: http://www.fhsu.edu/biology/finck.shtml phone: (785) 628-4214 fax: (785) 628-4153 Drink upstream from the herd.
