Get involved with the Echinacea Project at our field site or in our lab at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Please contact us if you have any questions.
Summer 2023 teams says, “Echinacea!”
Team Echinacea strives to create an inclusive, collaborative, stimulating, positive, fun, and productive environment for all regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, and economic background. We welcome and encourage individuals from groups historically excluded from sciences and conservation. If you are interested in learning about and contributing to science and conservation, please join our team. We are committed to recruiting, training, and supporting individuals interested in science, education, and conservation from diverse backgrounds.
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Summer Field Research in Minnesota
- Learn about what it’s like working with Team Echinacea.
- High school student research intern. Applications opening soon for summer 2025. Check back in January!
- Undergraduate research intern through NSF’s REU program. Applications opening soon for summer 2025. Check back in January!
- Teacher researcher through NSF’s RET program. Applications open for summer 2025. Due date January 5th.
Lab Research at the Chicago Botanic Garden
Check out ways to get involved during the academic year.
- Undergraduate research intern at the Chicago Botanic Garden.
- Volunteer in the lab. Join our Team!
Year-Round Positions
Interested in lab and field work? Here are the ways you can do both!
- Research intern. Applications opening soon for summer 2025. Check back in January!
- Graduate student at Northwestern University and University of Minnesota. Applications open for a fall 2025 start.
Applications for the Northwestern M.S. program are due February 15th.
Applications for the Northwestern Ph.D. program are due December 1st. - Post-doctoral researcher (none currently available).
Investigate ecology and evolution in fragmented prairies as a member of Team Echinacea. Join us!
Research interns 2019-20 Erin (far left) and Riley (far right) at the Chicago Botanic Garden with undergraduates from Carleton College (Jack, Eli, Emma and Julie)
