Kudos to… Shannon Schmoll (MSP11) is the co-Principal Investigator on a 2.5 million dollar NSF grant that will be used to create a hands-on planetarium show about astronomy in Chile, a web portal with additional content, and live social media events related to the...
Kudos to… Dr. David Michener, MSP Steering Committee member and Curator of UM’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum. Dr. Michener co-edited a book with Robert Grese, Director of the Gardens and Arboretum. Their book is titled Passion for Peonies: Celebrating the Culture and...
Kudos to… Marc Levitt (MSP08) continues as an Archivist and Exhibits Committee member at the National Naval Aviation Museum. The museum opened an exhibit, “Apollo – The Path to the Moon and Beyond,” to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing. The exhibit drew...
The University Museums and Collections Journal is a peer-reviewed, on-line journal published by the International Committee for University Museums and Collections (UMAC), a Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). The journal publishes original research on aspects of museology and museum practice in...
Kudos to… Anna Topolska (MSP11) defended for her PhD in History at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) in May 2019. The title of her dissertation was: “Memory and Visuality. Representations of the Second World War in Poznań in the 20th and 21st centuries.” ...
Kudos to… Erica Lehrer (MSP04) will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities conference, titled Decolonizing Museum Cultures and Collections: Mapping Theory and Practice in East-Central Europe. This international conference for heritage scholars and practitioners will be...
