We have a number of funded graduate positions at the master's level open in our department for fall 2007. Students in my lab typically work on projects involving marine mammal conservation, assessing population health via fluctuating asymmetry analysis and/or molecular markers. Examples of recent student projects include an assessment of population health of California sea lions (completed in conjunction with Francis Gulland and Denise Greig at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito) and of bottlenose dolphins (with Randy Wells at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota). Support includes tuition remission, stipend and research funds plus the opportunity to be a teaching assistant. Applications can be made online (https://my.american.edu/cgi/mvi.exe/A26.APPL.LOGIN?SCH=CAS). We have a departmental graduate open house on Feb 19th. Financial awards decisions are made in early March. Cathy Schaeff Department of Biology American University 101 Hurst Hall, 4400 Mass. Ave. NW, Washington DC 20016-8007 p: 202.885.2175, f: 202.885.2182 schaeff@american.edu <mailto:schaeff@american.edu> http:// www.american.edu/cas/bio/faculty_media/schaeff/index.html <http://www.american.edu/cas/bio/faculty_media/schaeff/index.html>