Share this:

This upcoming Saturday (March 30th, 2019) is an exciting event put on in collaboration with the Joseph Moore Museum and Earlham’s Natural Science Department. The Brain Explorers event is an opportunity for people of all ages to come and learn fascinating facts about the brain. Brain Explorers, now in its 3rd year, has always been …

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 …

Talking the Talk

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, …

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 …

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 …

Don’t sneeze! We are in the Ancient DNA lab!

If you visit JMM this week, you will be able to see three very meticulous scientists, covered in scrubs, gloves and lab coats (and colourful crocs), working in the Ancient DNA lab located in the basement. Working with ancient DNA requires a lot of care and precision. As this kind of DNA is very old, …

Learning From NASA

What makes a meteor burn up when it falls through Earth’s atmosphere? “Friction” is the typical answer NASA gets from the pupils of its Informal Educators Workshop, according to Carol Stocksdale, the museum’s educational outreach coordinator, who recently attended the workshop. The real answer to why meteors burn up in the atmosphere is because of …

Night at the Museum

Remember way back in February, when we hosted bedtime stories at the museum as part of our open house celebration? It was such a successful event, we're bringing it back for the summer! This Thursday, June 14th, will be the first night of stories under the shadows of our big skeletons. Parents, please bring your …

Job Opening at the Museum

Classification: Administrative Faculty-Collections Manager Department: Joseph Moore Museum Status: Part-time, no benefits. One-year appointment with merit-based renewal up to five years Salary: Commensurate with experience Here at the Joseph Moore Museum, we have an extensive collection of specimens not on display. This includes more than 12,000 vertebrate specimens, such as skins, skeletons, alcohol preps, fossils and …