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Search:  23 May 1998 - 1 August 1998 A total of 31 students participated in the 1998 session of the Research Training Program including 3 "non-program" participants and 5 international students representing Bhutan, Brazil, Germany, Guyana, Poland, and Russia. Schedule of Events  |  Poster  |  Program Summary Student Abstracts  |  Photo Gallery Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History Research Training Program Photo Gallery 1998 23 May 1998 - 1 August 1998 A total of 31 students participated in the 1998 session of the Research Training Program including 3 "non-program" participants and 5 international students representing Bhutan, Brazil, Germany, Guyana, Poland, and Russia. Schedule of Events  |  Poster  |  Program Summary Student Abstracts  |  Photo Gallery * * * Photo Gallery * * * 1998 Following are a few captured moments from the summer session of the '98 Research Training Program. The RTP brings together Smithsonian scientists and undergraduate students to pursue a research topic utilizing the national collections. Security Orientation Learning your way around a secure facility like the Natural History Building can present challenges. Officer Greenwood provides first day orientation information to help students learn the procedures. Learning your way around the city also presents challenges, including selecting the best daily commuting route to and from the NMNH. Botany Collection Tour Chair John Kress provides an overview of the U.S. National Herbarium. Botany Collection Tour Thinley Namgyel takes the opportunity to observe some of the specimens under the microscope. Botany Histology Demonstration Viewing cleared and stained slides. Botany Histology Demonstration Stan Yankowski demonstrates some of the histology techniques botanists use to study plant material. Botany Histology Demonstration Wanda Lewis tries some of the histology techniques. Plant Pressing Demonstration Mary Sangrey (left) demonstrates plant pressing techniques using flowers she brought in from her garden. Plant Pressing Demonstration Heidi Shoup tries the different methods to press plant specimens. Lectures in the Waldo Schmitt Room Former RTP intern, Rob Anderson, now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Kansas returned to the Museum this summer and gave a special lecture featuring his RTP research project on the evolution of three-toed sloths (Bradypus) on the Bocas del Toro islands in Panama. Poster Stuffing Recruitment posters for the '99 RTP were prepared and mailed by the RTP Class of '98. When the mailroom was unable to deliver the mail bins in time for the poster stuffing pizza party, rather than cancel, Mary Sangrey and Rececca Snyder improvised. Trash bins were quickly emptied, cleaned, and moved from the loading dock to the Botany collections in time for the party. Commented Mary while waist deep in the trash bin cleaning it ". . . so this is what they meant by other duties as needed . . " The trash bins proved acceptable for moving the 7,500 envelopes stuffed with posters headed to destinations around the world, and even proved to be a comfortable place to rest once filled, as demonstrated by Jennifer Fairchild (right). Touring DC Taking a break from their research, students tour the sites around town. Paleobiology Collections Tour Bob Purdy leads the group on a tour through the paleobiology collections, and through evolutionary time, as they follow the fossil evidence documenting the changes in foot/toe morphology. Paleobiology Collections Tour Shannon Stackhouse, Allison Wack, and Cassady Yoder listen carefully to information about the paleobotany collections. Paleobiology Collections Tour Bill DiMichele leads the group through the Paleobotany collections. Paleobiology Demonstrations Steve Jabo describes the processes to extract fossil material from rock matrix. Paleobiology Demonstrations Holding a prepared fossil, Steve Jabo descrobes the next step - preparing plaster jackets to hold the specimens. Mammals Collection Tour Thinley Namgyel is amazed by the paper clip phylogeny, proving that cladistics can be applied to almost anything. Reptiles and Amphibians Liquid Collections Students are often amazed by the endless rows of specimens representing taxa from all over the world and many points in time. Reptiles and Amphibians Liquid Collections Being able to find particular species studied during classes and then to examine the specimen first hand is just one of the many unique aspects of tour the NMNH collections. Here Sean Menke carefully searches the taxonomic sequence for a tuatara. Fishes Collections Tour Diana Thiel and Sean Menke study the specimens in the fish collection. Anthropology Collections Tour Dave Hunt shows Jennifer Fairchild how to determine race from features in the skull. The archeology group. Rudyard Sadleir and his research advisor, Dr. John Pandolfi Moritz Weinbeer and his research advisor, Dr. Charles Handley surveying some of the bat specimens. The girls from New Mexico, Wanda Lewis and Reyna Romero. The Invertebrate Zoology - sponge group:Michelle Nestlerode, Reyna Romero, Dr. Klaus Ruetzler, and Kate Smith. The Handley Group: Charles Handley, Moritz Weinbeer, and James Skoy Alliances for Minority Participation Interns The RTP is delighted to implement a new partnership with the NSF program, Alliances for Minority Participation (AMP) this year. Three students were selected to join including, Wanda Lewis, Reyna Romero, and Kevin Stewart. As part of their experience they traveled to the national AMP conference held at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, Montana 17 - 21 July 1998 to gather with fellow AMP scholars and present their research projects. First Annual RTP Poser Session This year also saw the addition of the RTP poster session. Held in the Director's Corridor, students presented their research results in poster format for members from the SMithsonian scientific community. Over 100 guests joined the session. First Annual RTP Poser Session The geology group especially enjoyed the opportunity to feature their research: Sara James, Ellen Rosenshein, Chris Claflin, and research advisor Dr. Mike Wise Time to celebrate, Thinley Namgyel deomonstrates that RTP students are NOT all work and no play! Shannon Stackhouse, Cassady Yoder, Maksim Yegorov, Rudyard Sadleir, Ashley Cramer, and Thinley Namgyel Smithsonian Women's Committee Interns Thomas Prosynski, Cristiano Moreira, Cassady Yoder, Thinley Namgyel, Moritz Weinbeer, and Maksim Yegorov Research Training Program Class of '98 One of the more memorable moments from '98: Mary and Rebecca, waste deep in trash cleaning out trash bins so the pizza party could go on. The RTP m&m Basket

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