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Museum News

  • Researchers use medical technology to offer 3D online images of world’s creatures
    Graduate collection assistant Cameron Pittman explains benefits of online collections on Denver 7 News
  • CU museum program encourages student workers to be purposeful changemakers
    CU Museum CHANGE Collective featured in CU Boulder Today
  • As Earth Warms, Old Mayhem and Secrets Emerge From the Ice
    Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Archaeology Will Taylor featured in The New York Times
  • Melting Mongolian ice reveals fragile artifacts that provide clues about how past people lived
    Dr. William Taylor reports about artifacts found in melting Mongolian ice and what clues they provide about how past people lived
  • Ancient humans turned elephant remains into a surprising array of bone tools
    Archaeology curator Paola Villa' recent research featured in CU Boulder Today
  • Paleontologists discover 3 new species of primitive ungulates
    Fossil Vertebrates curator Jaelyn Eberle featured in CU Boulder Today
  • Museum Curator Jennifer Shannon garners fellowship to ‘deploy the humanities for the public good’
    Anthropology curator Dr. Jen Shannon receives Whiting Public Engagement Program fellowship
  • Icy waters of 'Snowball Earth' may have spurred early organisms to grow bigger
    Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology Dr. Carl Simpson featured in CU Boulder Today
  • Evidence for early dispersal of domestic sheep into Central Asia
    Archaeology curator Dr. Will Taylor’s latest research in Nature.com
  • Dr. Karen Chin shares the legacy of her father, a Tuskegee Airman
    Curator of Paleontology Dr. Karen Chin featured in CU Boulder Today
  • Trash reconsidered: A relational approach to deposition in the Pueblo Southwest:
    Archaeology curator Dr. Samantha Fladd examines the social implications of depositional practices
  • Climate change proves an uphill battle for many small Colorado mammals
    New study spanning nearly 13 years, Dr. Christy McCain, Curator of Vertebrates and colleagues discovered how climate change is affecting small mammals throughout Colorado Mountains
  • Horse remains reveal new insights into how Native peoples raised horses
    CU’s Museum’s curator of archaeology Dr. Will Taylor and PhD student Carlton Shield Chief Gover, tribal citizen of the Pawnee Nation, explore the history hidden inside a horse skeleton through an indigenous lens
  • CU Entomology's bee research featured in a pollinator quarterly "2 Million Blossoms"
    Bees Under Water by Andy Carstens (page 39)
  • NSF grant allows Museum’s Herp collection to be seen in a new light—literally!
    Vertebrate section awarded grant to collect CT scans of specimens
  • A Record of Horseback Riding, Written in Bone and Teeth
    Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Archaeology Will Taylor featured in The New York Times
  • Secrets of the ice: unlocking a melting time capsule
    Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Archaeology Will Taylor featured in The Guardian
  • Pandemics and the Post: Mongolia’s Pony Express
    Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Archaeology Will Taylor featured in The Diplomat
  • Of Millers And Monarchs (And Milkweed)
    Entomology Curator Deane Bowers featured on KUNC's Fresh Air
  • Fossil tracks left by an ancient crocodile that 'ran like an ostrich'
    Emeritus Professor Martin Lockley featured in BBC News
  • Even though the CU Museum of Natural History is closed, you can still see one of its most popular exhibits
    3D Triceratops scan featured on 9News
  • Family gives thanks as Boulder man flourishes past 100 years
    Remembering Dr. William A. Weber, founder of the CU Herbarium
  • 3D scan sheds new light on Boulder’s own Triceratops
    New Archaeozoology Lab featured in CU Boulder Today
  • Beach-combing Neanderthals dived for shells
    Adjoint Curator Paola Villa featured in CU Boulder Today
  • Neanderthals Could Swim. They Even Dived.
    Adjoint Curator Paola Villa featured in The New York Times
  • Mongolian reindeer herders on list of climate change victims, CU Boulder researcher reports
    Assistant Professor and Curator of Archaeology Will Taylor featured in the Daily Camera
  • Hawaii’s mysterious mints, discovered then ignored, get a fresh look
    MFS Student Justin Williams featured in Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine
  • How Dan the Zebra Stopped an Ill-Fated Government Breeding Program in Its Tracks
    Article by Assistant Professor and Curator of Archaeology Will Taylor published on Smithsonian.com
  • Vanishing ice puts Mongolia's reindeer herders at risk
    Assistant Professor and Curator of Archaeology Will Taylor featured on CNN
  • Evolutionary biologist nabs fellowship to study collaborative ocean organisms
    Assistant Professor of EBIO and Curator of Invertebrates Jinghun Li featured in CU Boulder Today
  • Jingchun Li chosen as Packard Fellow
    Assistant Professor of EBIO and Curator of Invertebrates awarded prestigious Packard fellowship
  • Neanderthals used resin 'glue' to craft their stone tools
    Adjoint Curator Paola Villa featured in CU Boulder Today
  • Mantis shrimp vs. disco clams: Colorful sea creatures do more than dazzle
    Invertebrate research featured in CU Boulder Today
  • CU herbarium plants the seed for climate change research
    CU Museum Herbarium featured in CU Boulder Today
  • Food may have been scarce in Chaco Canyon
    Adjoint Curator Larry Benson discusses his research in CU Boulder Today.
  • CU Museum receives reaccreditation from AAM
    The highest national recognition for museums
  • A modern look at Chaco Canyon's ancient past
    Anthropology Curator Steve Lekson discusses his work at Chaco Canyon in CU Boulder Today
  • Students in Focus: 'The Yuccans' bring nature education to Mesa Verde
    CU Students teach park visitors about local ecology
  • Faculty in Focus: At 99, botanist's love of lichens still going strong
    CU professor emeritus William Weber featured in CU Boulder Today
  • How female scientists can confront gender bias in the workplace
    Vertebrate palaeontologist Jaelyn Eberle featured in Nature
  • When it comes to genes, lichens embrace sharing economy
    Botany Curator Erin Tripp discusses obligate symbiosis in lichens in CU Boulder Today
  • How Captives Changed the World
    Anthropology Professor and Adjunct Curator Cathy Cameron featured in Scientific American
  • It's Wet Down Here: The perils of underwater research
    CU postdoc Lindsey Dougherty featured in Scientific American
  • Shellfish Surprise: Common 'Herbivore' Dinosaur Found To Snack On Crustaceans
    Paleontology Curator Karen Chin featured on NPR
  • Cannabis: A Visual Perspective
    Biolounge exhibit featured in the Washington Post
  • CU Collection Hive of Information on World of Bees
    Entomology Collection Manager Virginia Scott featured in the Daily Camera and Denver Post
  • Lichens Really Do Have 'Charm'!
    CU biologist Erin Tripp discusses the hidden charm of lichens on Colorado Public Radio
  • Pushing Boundaries: Plant hunters are the pioneers of Colorado botany
    CU botanists Dina Clark and Tim Hogan in CU Boulder Today

Native American grad student wins critical acclaim, support

Chance Ward examining a horse skull

Chance Ward, a graduate student in the University of Colorado Boulder’s Museum and Field Studies Program, has received an award from the Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists (CCPA) to support his studies.

Ward, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota and a member of the Mnicoujou and Hunkpapa bands of the Lakota Nation, won a scholarship to fund book purchases, travel and materials for his master's studies that include museum curation, collections management, artifact analysis, cultural preservation laws and tribal preservation programs.

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Sasha Buckser wins research award from Plains Anthropological Society

Saha Buckser
 
Anthropology Ph.D. student Sasha Buckser was announced as the winner of the Student Poster Competition at the Plains Anthropology Conference, held this year at the Embassy Suites in Boulder. The award is given annually to the top student research poster at the annual conference, which draws together archaeologists and anthropologists from across the Great Plains.
 
Sasha, who works as a student researcher in the museum's Archaeozoology Laboratory received the honors for interdisciplinary analysis of ancient canid remains from Wyoming. The award-winning poster is entitled Exploring Human-Canid Relationships of the 17th Century Northern Rockies.

Dr. Jen Shannon receives Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship

Jen Shannon

Curator and Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology Dr. Jen Shannon, receives the prestigious and highly competitive Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship (a national grant program that supports public humanities projects that tackle pressing challenges in communities around the country). Dr. Shannon is collaborating to create a series of comics illustrating the history and culture of the Kumeyaay people in Southern California, co-created with Kumeyaay community members and complete with accompanying lesson plans that underscore tribal perspectives.

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