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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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Profiles

Bruce MacFadden, curator of vertebrate paleontology, retires after 47 years at the Florida Museum of Natural History

August 7, 2024

In 1977, Bruce MacFadden accepted a curatorial position with the Florida Museum of Natural History’s vertebrate paleontology collection. Since then,…
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Hires & Promotions

Advait Jukar joins Florida Museum of Natural History as newest curator of vertebrate paleontology

August 7, 2024

The Florida Museum of Natural History welcomes Advait Jukar as its newest curator of vertebrate paleontology. He replaces curator emeritus…
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Awards & Honors

Michelle LeFebvre receives 2024 UF excellence award for assistant professors

June 28, 2024

The Florida Museum of Natural History’s Michelle LeFebvre is a recipient of this year’s University of Florida excellence awards for…
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Awards & Honors

Botanists and archaeologists receive National Science Foundation grant to study Mediterranean history

June 6, 2024

It’s an unusual collaboration. Botanists and archaeologists don’t often work together, unless they’re studying the way people have used plants…
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Awards & Honors

Daniels Lab receives UF Champions for Change award

June 5, 2024

The Daniels Lab at the Florida Museum of Natural History has received a Champions for Change award in recognition for their…
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Grants & Initiatives

New $12.5 million National Science Foundation grant awarded to study phenomenon affecting agriculture, cancer, biodiversity and more

June 3, 2024

It’s in your heart and liver, in the vegetables you eat, in the rogue cells that cause cancer. Those who…
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Hires & Promotions

New faculty highlight: Jonathan Nations, curator of mammals

May 17, 2024

Jonathan Nations joined the Florida Museum of Natural History as curator of mammals this April. Before delving into biology, he…
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