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iDigBio receives $15.5 million grant to digitize collections

September 8, 2016

Fossil primates, ancient mollusks and exotic butterflies will soon be coming to your home—as long as you have a personal…
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Awards & Honors

Pam and Doug awarded the Darwin-Wallace medal

June 17, 2016

Soltis Lab Blog Pam and Doug Soltis were awarded the 2016 Darwin-Wallace Medal by the Linnean Society of London in…
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Jerald Milanich

Awards & Honors

Two former archaeology curators receive lifetime achievement awards

April 8, 2016

Florida Museum of Natural History curators emeritus Kathleen Deagan and Jerald Milanich were recently honored with 2015 lifetime achievement awards…
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Grants & Initiatives

Florida Museum, UF get $1.2 million grant for youth STEM education

April 8, 2016

There is new hope for kids who spend their free time digging in their backyards in search of dinosaur bones,…
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Meggan Blessing

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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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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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