Classes Without Quizzes
Tuesday, March 12, Noon–1 p.m. (Virtual)
Join the CFANS Alumni Society for a virtual Classes Without Quizzes, "Curating Curiosities in the Bell Museum Collections," where you'll hear lightning talks from three CFANS experts who serve in curatorial roles for the Bell Museum’s collections. Following their lightning talks, breakout rooms will offer a chance to chat with the experts.
Holly Menninger, Bell Museum Director
Holly Menninger, new executive director, will introduce you to the Bell Museum, and all that this world-class, university-based natural history museum has to offer.
Kassandra Ford, Curator of Fishes & Mollusks
"Putting the History in Natural History Museums: Leveraging organismal collections to study evolutionary histories"
The Bell Museum helps to connect preserved specimens with ecology and evolutionary history to study how organisms have changed over time and may change in the future.
Ken Kozak, Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles
"Merging natural history museum data, climate models, and DNA technologies to study emerging invasive species."
Bell Museum researchers and students are involved in novel integrations of data to study the northward expansion of ecologically damaging amphibians and reptiles across Minnesota.
Sushma Reddy, Curator of Birds
"Expanding the utility of natural history specimens for ecosystem health."
The Bell Museum is embarking on a community-driven initiative to salvage wildlife carcasses to build a resource for ecological, evolutionary, and environmental research.
For more information contact:
- Annie Makepeace, Chair, CWQ Committee Chair | anniedmakepeace@gmail.com
- Mary Buschette, Alumni & Constituent Relations Director | mbuschet@umn.edu
