Wrapping Up The Semester: Overview and Accomplishments

The museum has had a productive and busy semester. Our collective efforts have allowed us to put on successful museum events, improve the museum exhibits and programs, and reach out to the community as a whole.   During this Fall Semester, we have accomplished the following:   A reusable display was made for traveling advertisement and for …

Highlights from the Symposium Talks

by Leah Everitt, Elisabeth Sorrows, and Emily McGrew Our favorite talks from the University of Michigan's Early Career Scientist Symposium on March 29: Leah: Cool Cow Genes My favorite talk at the symposium was entitled “From the Aurochs to the Anthropocene: domestication and global movement of cattle in the past 10,000 years". This talk focused …

Exploring the Museum Collections at UMich

by Katherine and Elisabeth Sorrows First Day at University of Michigan We got to interact with current PhD students, meet with an EC alum who works in the museum, explore the collections and museum and talk to the museum staff. We will focus this week on our interactions with the collections. Look NEXT week for …

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On the Road Again

by Emily McGrew Even museum staffers occasionally take a break and hit the road for a springtime road trip! Two weekends ago, Heather, our director, drove a minivan full of sleepy museum staffers to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. We had the chance to meet with a few members of their museum team …

Cincinnati’s Got a Museum When People Come to See ’em

By Katherine Sorrows and Katy Rockefeller Last weekend Katy Rockefeller, Heather Brock, Bailey Heinzen, and Katherine Sorrows went with Director Heather Lerner to the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and the Ultimate Dinosaur exhibit. Before heading to the Museum, we stopped off at the Geier Collections & Research Center and met with Dr. Brenda Hunda, Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology …

Learning About the Ancient Mediterranean at the Museum

Susan Wise's History of the Ancient Mediterranean class took a field trip to the museum today. They got to look at (and handle!) some of the cool artifacts we have here, including clay tablets from ancient Babylon, oil lamps from Rome, and mummy masks and wrappings from Egypt. They look pretty studious, don't they?