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Dec 3 event – Natural History Collections and Pandemic Preparedness

Please join us for a Museums at Noon presentation! Natural History Collections and Pandemic Preparedness Presenters: Cody Thompson, Mammal Collections Manager and Assistant Research Scientist (University of Michigan Museum of Zoology) Kendra Phelps, Senior Scientist (EcoHealth Alliance) Date:  Friday, December 3 Time:  12:00 pm Format:  Online...

Study Days at UMMA – Dec 9-12

Bring your laptop, bring your books, bring your notes, and set up shop at one of the many tables or couches we’ll have stationed throughout the museum and our galleries. In addition to ample study space, throughout exam week you’ll find special self-care and...

Data, Archives, and Information Seminar: Tonia Sutherland – starts Dec 9

Data, Archives, and Information Seminar Speaker: Tonia Sutherland, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa                       Title: On Chatbots, Tupac, and Black Mirror: Digital Resurrection in the 21st Century    Abstract: Our data doesn’t just disappear when we die. Particularly concerned with the ways Black people’s (and...

Alumni kudos!

Kudos to…  Kathy Zarur (MSP05) is a San Francisco-based artist, curator, and educator now sharing her energies and talents as an Associate Professor of Art History at Skyline College, a community college in San Bruno, California.

Natural History Collections and Pandemic Preparedness

In this session, Cody Thompson and Kendra Phelps will discuss their article, “Preserve a Voucher Specimen! The Critical Need for Integrating Natural History Collections in Infectious Disease Studies,” published in January 2021. With COVID-19 as an example of the failed merger of host-pathogen research...