Part-Time Curation Assistant - Skvarla Lab

Penn State UniversityUniversity Park, IL
Onsite

About The Position

The Department of Entomology in the College of Agricultural Sciences is seeking applicants for a part-time job of curation assistant for the summer 2026 semester to assist with curation and identification of arthropod specimens received and collected by the Insect Identification Lab.

Requirements

  • Interest in insect biodiversity and museum collections
  • Microsoft Excel

Nice To Haves

  • Prior study of insect biodiversity preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

  • Curate arthropod samples, including pinning or pointing specimens as appropriate, preserving in ethanol, and labelling
  • Identify curated specimens to the family-, genus-, or species-level
  • Database specimens following Darwin Core standards
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