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A scientist scans fossil

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Museum receives $455,000 grant to curate, digitize vertebrate fossils

July 2, 2012

A new National Science Foundation grant allows scientists to prepare vertebrate paleontology specimens at the Florida Museum of Natural History,…
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Susan Milbrath looking at artifacts

Collections

Museum researchers receive $53,000 to digitize ancient Mayan collection

June 20, 2012

Florida Museum of Natural History researchers recently received $53,000 to enhance the museum’s online database of Mayan artifacts. The two-year…
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Awards & Honors

Douglas Jones elected to national association board

June 12, 2012

Florida Museum of Natural History Director Douglas S. Jones has been elected to the American Association of Museums Board of…
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hawkmoth specimen

Awards & Honors

Undergraduate receives ‘Science for Life’ research award

June 11, 2012

Most first-year University of Florida students won’t be working in a molecular biology lab studying hawkmoth DNA during their summer…
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Larry Page holding a specimen in the Florids Museum's ichthyology collection

Awards & Honors

Museum researcher to address Congress on digitizing biological collections

June 4, 2012

Florida Museum of Natural History researcher Larry Page will deliver a congressional briefing in Washington Tuesday about the value of…
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Hawk Moths

Grants & Initiatives

Researcher receives grant to study echolocation in moths

November 10, 2011

Whether by buzzing, singing, cawing or hissing, plenty of animals boast their own form of communication. But researchers now hope…
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researcher looking over Andes landscape

Grants & Initiatives

Researcher receives grant to study birds in the Andes

September 19, 2011

With $800,000 from the National Science Foundation, Florida Museum of Natural History conservation biologist Scott Robinson is researching bird ranges…
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swift creek pottery sample

Cultural Heritage

Archaeologist receives grant to analyze Swift Creek pottery

September 13, 2011

Florida Museum of Natural History researcher Neill Wallis recently received a $55,000 National Science Foundation grant to analyze and digitally…
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William Smith-Vaniz

Awards & Honors

Florida Museum ichthyologist receives prestigious Gibbs Award

July 21, 2011

Florida Museum of Natural History research associate William F. Smith-Vaniz recently received the most prestigious award available to researchers of…
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Swift creek pottery sample

Grants & Initiatives

Museum archaeologist receives $20,000 to analyze Swift Creek pottery

July 11, 2011

Florida Museum of Natural History researcher Neill Wallis recently received a $20,000 grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to analyze and…
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