Cerrie Mendoza's summer 2017 internship was a collaboration pilot project between the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, the U. S. Geological Survey, Eastern Mennonite University and James Madison University. Mendoza, of El Paso, Texas, is a biology major at Eastern Mennonite University. (Courtesy photos)
Internship
Sep 27
Cerrie Mendoza, a biology major from El Paso, Texas, is taking part in a collaboration pilot project between the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), the U. S. Geological Survey, Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) and James Madison University (JMU) to gather genetic samples from certain North American species of salamanders that were first collected and described 50 years ago. The project is funded by the Smithsonian's Global Genome Initiative.
