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Awards & Honors

Florida Museum announces 2025 Austin, biodiversity and Bullen award winners

April 2, 2025

The Florida Museum of Natural History has announced the winners of its annual Austin, biodiversity and Bullen graduate student awards,…
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Hires & Promotions

Glaucia Del-Rio joins the Florida Museum of Natural History as curator of ornithology

February 5, 2025

Last week, Glaucia Del-Rio officially stepped into her role as curator of ornithology at the Florida Museum of Natural History….
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Hires & Promotions

Vaughn Shirey joins Florida Museum of Natural History as newest curator of butterflies and moths

January 22, 2025

We are excited to welcome our newest curator, Vaughn Shirey, to the Florida Museum of Natural History. Working in the…
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Awards & Honors

National Academy of Sciences names Megan Ennes early career fellow in education research

December 10, 2024

Megan Ennes, curator of museum education at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has been named a 2024-2026 research fellow…
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Awards & Honors

Florida pottery expert, Ann Cordell, receives lifetime achievement award

November 26, 2024

Florida is peppered with broken pottery, vestiges of a time when Indigenous people throughout the peninsula molded clay into cooking…
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Hires & Promotions

Michelle LeFebvre assumes new role as director of Randell Research Center

November 21, 2024

The Florida Museum’s Randell Research Center has a new director! Michelle LeFebvre, curator of South Florida archaeology and ethnography, as…
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Awards & Honors

Florida Museum curator helps team score 1st-place and $5 million in international biodiversity competition

November 18, 2024

Robert Guralnick, curator of bioinformatics at the Florida Museum of Natural History, is a member of an international team that…
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Awards & Honors

Three Florida Museum postdocs receive UF awards

September 24, 2024

Three postdoctoral associates at the Florida Museum of Natural History have received awards from the University of Florida highlighting their…
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Grants & Initiatives

Funding awarded for research on bagworms, bubonic plague, ancient mammals and a repository of changing seasons

September 5, 2024

Researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History and collaborating institutions have been collectively awarded $2,837,441 in funding from the…
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Profiles

Remembering Florida Museum curator Jacqueline Miller

September 3, 2024

Jacqueline Miller, Allyn curator emerita at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the Florida Museum of Natural History,…
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