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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See the Museum Through Our Eyes

http://vimeo.com/88291717 This video, made especially for us by Winston Wu Photography, features director Heather Lerner telling her story and experience of the museum. Check it out to learn more about how the staff works and loves the museum world. Music by Tom Day.

Honeycreepers!

Museum director, Heather Lerner, conducts research on honeycreepers, a group of songbirds endemic to the Hawaiian islands. The museum is developing an exhibit on honeycreepers to be constructed soon. Read an article about honeycreepers in the latest issue of Natural History: honey creeper article. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology also has an informative article about these …