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Keith Willmott named director of McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity – Research News

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The Florida Museum of Natural History has appointed Keith Willmott director of the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, one of the world’s premier research institutes dedicated to butterflies and moths. Willmott, a curator who specializes in Neotropical butterflies, succeeds Jaret Dan
McGuire Center through the next phase of its development.� How a chance trip led

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When scientists and K-12 teachers team up, the results can be spectacular or lackluster – Research News

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The results of an in-depth review of published research on scientists conducting K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) outreach suggest that increased collaboration with K-12 educators could improve such projects. The study authors identified the need for more rigorous peer-re
In 2021, a school activity that involved measuring teeth from extinct sharks led

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Akito Kawahara named director of McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity – Research News

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The Florida Museum of Natural History has named Akito Kawahara as the new director of the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, a leading institution in butterfly and moth research and education. Kawahara studies the diversity and evolution of moths and butterflies and succeeds Keith W
world devoted to the study of butterflies and moths, and it’s fitting that it be led

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Florida teachers, UF scientists partner to develop science lesson plans July 7-12 – Pressroom

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — K-12 science teachers from across Florida will spend four days this summer in a University of Florida laboratory as part of a professional development workshop hosted by the UF Thompson Earth Systems Institute titled “Florida’s Connection to the Biosphere.â€� July 7-12, 34
funded by the “Scientist in Every Florida School� project, a new initiative led

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Researchers help pinpoint key events in ancient plant evolution – Research News

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Researchers from the University of Florida and six other institutions have unlocked some of the key foundations for the evolution of seed and flowering plants. The study, to be published online Sunday in Nature, is the first to identify the occurrence of ancient genome duplication events and show
“One ancient genome duplication event led to all the diversity of flowering plants

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Teachers receive fossils, create lesson plans at museum workshop – Research News

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Florida Museum of Natural History researchers and amateur paleontologists teamed up to give K-12 teachers a crash course that came with some impressive party favors: real fossils. Through a four-day workshop in August 2017, called FOSSILs4Teachers!, 30 teachers from across the U.S. converged on a
The Florida Museum’s Victor Perez and Jeanette Pirlo, far right, led workshop participants

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Fossil collector donates life’s work to Florida Museum of Natural History – Research News

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The vertebrate paleontology division at the Florida Museum of Natural History recently received its largest private donation, an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 identifiable specimens. The specimens formerly comprised the world’s second-largest collection of Florida vertebrate fossils. The museum will
His project on shark teeth found in the creek near the school later led to his masterâ

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Guantanamo Bay Lepidoptera study sets baseline for future research – Research News

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Florida Museum scientists publishing the first study on butterflies and moths of Guantanamo Bay Naval Station have discovered vast biodiversity in an area previously unknown to researchers. Appearing in the Bulletin of the Allyn Museum Sept. 5, the study creates a baseline for understanding h
Portell has led fieldwork on the naval station since 2007.

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Is Alaska’s first new butterfly species in decades an ancient hybrid? – Research News

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Some might say it takes a rare breed to survive the Alaska wilderness. The discovery of a possible new species of hybrid butterfly from the state’s interior is proving that theory correct. Belonging to a group known as the Arctics, the Tanana Arctic, Oeneis tanana, is the first new butterfly
history of arctic North America and the evolution of hybrid species, said Warren, who led

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