Internships and Practicums

Theo Yoder, who’s majoring in biology and digital media, and Nicole Miller, a chemistry major with a minor in biology, accompanied Professor Matthew Siderhurst to Hawai’i where they tracked insects that prey on papaya fields.

From internships in large production facilities and laboratories to fieldwork in Hawaii, nine Eastern Mennonite University students gave fellow students, professors and the campus community a snapshot of their summer experiences this week.

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Braden Herman '18, now a graduate student of natural resources and fisheries biology at Humboldt State University, came to the field through a love of fly fishing and an internship with the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, where part of his job was conducting controlled burns for woodland health.

Katelyn Dean, a student in Professor Doug Graber Neufeld's natural history class at Eastern Mennonite University, shows morel mushrooms she and her dad found in the George Washington National Forest.

A grant from the National Science Foundation will fund student research in Australia with professor Matthew Siderhurst. Students and Siderhurst will study horticultural pests.