The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is pleased to announce the program for this year’s Early Career Scientist Symposium. This year’s theme is Natural History Collections: Drivers of Innovation—an exciting symposium about innovative and unconventional uses of biological collections across scientific...
Helen Dixon (MSP07) began a position as Assistant Professor of History at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. She teaches courses related to museum studies, such as “Approaches to Historical Objects.”
How do we create a collections policy? How do we document donations of artifacts and what should you say – and not say – and do for your donors? We have bugs and rodents; what do we do? What are agents of deterioration? How do we number...
This letter from the field was shared with MSP by Heloise Finch, MSP05 How often do you buy something on Amazon? Do you buy the same things that you would in a store? As consumers we love Amazon. It’s so easy to flit...
Kudos to… Grace Mahoney (MSP16) completed her practicum at the Literary Memorial Museum of Mikhail Bulgakov in Kiev. During her time at the museum, she created the Bolgakov Digital Collection. This collection has been featured in the winter 2020 UM digital library magazine: https://magazine.lib.umich.edu/winter-2020/...
Kudos to… Joe Cialdella (MSP09) has just published a book, Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit. The book is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteenth- to early twenty-first century. It focuses primarily on...
