An opportunity exists at the University of Dayton (UD) for graduate-level training in deciduous forest ecology. The student will be based at UD and will work in the laboratory of Dr. Ryan McEwan. I am seeking a motivated student who is eager to perform the arduous tasks associated with ecology field research, the careful work of experimentation and who has an eagerness to learn and implement complex statistical analyses. Evidence of scientific writing experience would be beneficial to the application process. I will consider applicants at both the MS and PhD-level; however, the qualifications for acceptance at the PhD-level are quantitatively, and qualitatively, different than those of MS-level applicants.
The student will be supported by a teaching assistantship through the Department of Biology at UD. The assistantship is associated with a stipend of ~$19,000/year; however, ~$5,000 of this comes in the form of a University summer fellowship which is awarded through a competitive process. The assistantship also comes with 100% tuition remission. UD is the largest private University in the state of Ohio, and is consistently award winning for both academic programs and scholarship http://www.udayton.edu/awards_and_rankings.php. Enrollment is ~11,000 with approximately 3,000 graduate students. The Department of Biology is one of the largest majors at UD, Interested individuals are encouraged to view the following web sites: Dr. McEwan’s Lab Pages: http://academic.udayton.edu/RyanMcEwan UD Department of Biology: http://biology.udayton.edu University of Dayton: http://www.udayton.edu To being the application process, please send a CV and both GPA and GRE scores to: ryan.mce...@udayton.edu.
