by Emily McGrew As scientists, we often get caught up in the day-to-day concerns about experimental controls and reading the next chapter for class, so we don’t take time to think about our context in the wider fields of biology, science and the world. After a long day of presentations on very specific research topics, …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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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?
Giant Beavers and Moore 