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Awards & Honors

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Awards & Honors

Mariela Pajuelo named University of Florida advisor of the year

April 29, 2025

Mariela Pajuelo, an assistant scientist at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has been named advisor of the year by…
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Florida Museum of Natural History among winners of Gainesville Beautification Award

April 25, 2025

At a recent ceremony, the Gainesville City Beautification Board recognized ten local businesses and organizations with the 2025 Gainesville Beautification…
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Charles Cobb named UF Research Foundation 2025 professor

April 14, 2025

The University of Florida Research Foundation has named 35 of the university’s most productive and promising faculty members as UFRF…
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Florida Museum announces 2025 Austin, biodiversity and Bullen award winners

April 2, 2025

The Florida Museum of Natural History has announced the winners of its annual Austin, biodiversity and Bullen graduate student awards,…
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National Academy of Sciences names Megan Ennes early career fellow in education research

December 10, 2024

Megan Ennes, curator of museum education at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has been named a 2024-2026 research fellow…
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Florida pottery expert, Ann Cordell, receives lifetime achievement award

November 26, 2024

Florida is peppered with broken pottery, vestiges of a time when Indigenous people throughout the peninsula molded clay into cooking…
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Florida Museum curator helps team score 1st-place and $5 million in international biodiversity competition

November 18, 2024

Robert Guralnick, curator of bioinformatics at the Florida Museum of Natural History, is a member of an international team that…
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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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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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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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