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Meggan Blessing

Awards & Honors

Austin, Bullen 2016 student research award winners named

March 24, 2016

The Florida Museum of Natural History recently announced the winners of the 2016 Austin Award and Bullen Award for student…
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Assorted preserved butterflies

Grants & Initiatives

$2.5 million NSF grant to fund online butterfly family tree, field guide

September 23, 2015

Butterflies have been objects of scientific research for hundreds of years, but information about the popular insects is scattered across…
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Campanulaceae clade diagram

Grants & Initiatives

New NSF project aims to help scientists navigate the tree of life

June 18, 2015

A new University of Florida and Duke University collaboration aims to do for the tree of life what Google Earth…
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Catalina with shark tooth

Awards & Honors

Austin, Bullen 2015 student research award winners named

May 4, 2015

The Florida Museum of Natural History recently announced the winners of the 2015 Austin Award and Bullen Award for superior…
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scientist scans fossil

Collections

iDigBio effort awarded $7.5 million to digitize biodiversity collections

August 25, 2014

The National Science Foundation has awarded six grants totaling about $7.5 million to digitize biodiversity collections, a nationwide effort coordinated…
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tan and orange moth

Awards & Honors

Buchholz High School student wins prestigious grant to research moth wings

July 24, 2014

A high school student working in the Florida Museum of Natural History McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity recently received…
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researcher speaking at podium

Awards & Honors

Museum researcher receives 2013-2014 UF Excellence Award

May 2, 2014

A Florida Museum of Natural History researcher recently received a 2013-2014 UF Excellence Award for his research on social networks…
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Jeffery Vadala and Lucas R. Martindale Johnson

Awards & Honors

Austin, Bullen 2014 student research award winners named

April 7, 2014

The Florida Museum of Natural History recently announced the winners of the 2014 Austin Award and Bullen Award. Two University…
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Doug Jones

Awards & Honors

Director Doug Jones elected president of science museum association

April 1, 2014

Florida Museum of Natural History Director Douglas S. Jones was elected president of the Association of Science Museum Directors at…
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Philodoria hibiscella moth

Grants & Initiatives

Museum researcher wins NSF grant to study rare Hawaiian moths

February 20, 2014

A Florida Museum of Natural History researcher has received $150,000 from the National Science Foundation to study endangered moth species…
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