Graduate Assistantships - Fort Hays State University

Graduate assistantship opportunities in the Department of Biological Sciences at Fort Hays
State University have dramatically increased for Fall 2010. There are currently five
graduate teaching assistantships, one graduate curatorial assistantship (at the Sternberg
Museum of Natural History), and three graduate wetlands assistantships at the Kansas
Wetlands Education Center, for a total of at least nine graduate assistantships available.
Fort Hays State University faculty have on-going research on The Nature Conservancy's
Smoky Valley Ranch in western Kansas, at the Cheyenne Bottoms State Wildlife Area, the
Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, in the Platte River Valley, and in the Prairie Pothole
Region of Minnesota. In addition, we have excellent programs in herpetology (Dr. William
Stark, Curtis J. Schmidt, Travis W. Taggart & Joseph T. Collins are all curators in the
Sternberg Museum), biogeography, botany, conservation biology, entomology, extinction
and range contraction, fisheries management, grassland soils, ichthyology, mammalogy,
ornithology, plant ecology, plant ecophysiology, plant physiology, range management,
and wildlife biology. Fort Hays State University has developed a program in microbiology,
has a DNA sequencing laboratory, recently added expertise in stable isotope ecology, and
has a SEM laboratory with digital imaging capabilities. In addition, the department recently
began a Professional Science Masters for students interested in combining business and
natural resource management. Graduate students in our program have successfully gone
forward to excellent doctoral programs and/or employment within their subdisciplines.
Please access our web pages at

http://www.fhsu.edu/biology/

http://sternberg.fhsu.edu/

Prospective students should contact Dr. Finck (below) or an appropriate faculty member
with questions about opportunities.

Elmer J. Finck
Professor and Chairperson
Department of Biological Sciences
Fort Hays State University
600 Park Street
Hays, Kansas 67601-4099
efinck@fhsu.edu
(785) 628-4214
(785) 628-4153
(785) 650-1057 cell