Interns Work With Museum Collections
The National Museum of Health and Medicine hosted summer interns Matthew Chu, Jennifer Giebel, Nathan Johnson, Amadu Kamara, Vikram Madam, Amanda Montgomery, Samara Simmorins, Janel Whitehart and Elizabeth Yen.
Chu, Johnson and Yen worked in the Neuroanatomical Collections as participants in the American Registry of Pathology summer internship program researching the differences in brain structure between specimens with and without Down syndrome. Yen directly assisted with data collection and scanning images. Chu and Yen are both currently students at Springbrook High School in Silver Spring, Md. Johnson is currently a student at Potomac High School in Dumfries, Va.
Simmorins is currently a student at Towson University in Towson, Md., pursuing a degree in anthropology. She worked as the Anatomical Collections intern assisting with collection inventory and inventory in the Neuroanatomical Collection library.
Kamara and Madam both worked in the Human Developmental Anatomy Center, annotating image sections from a stage 23 embryo.
Giebel worked as the Historical Collections intern through the Washington Internship Institute. Her projects included helping crate large equipment to ship to the museum’s offsite warehouse, clean up of data in the museum database and helping create content on a future webpage about Alberta Montgomery, an occupational therapist who served at Walter Reed Army Hospital during World War I. Giebel is currently completing her senior year at Nazareth College of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y., and plans to attend graduate school in order to pursue a career in museums.
Montgomery and Whitehart both worked as interns in the Otis Historical Archives. Montgomery is currently a student at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies, pursuing a master’s degree in library science with a specialization in archives, records and information management. She arranged and described a collection of World War I era photographs that resulted in a finding aid that is now available on the museum’s website (American Expeditionary Forces Photographs OHA91). Whitehart is a student in the online master of liberal studies program in museum management through the University of Oklahoma. She continues to work on the Alberta Montgomery collection for her internship.
Please email nmhminfo@afip.osd.mil to inquire about internship opportunities at the museum.
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