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MCZ News & Events
The MCZ
celebrates its 150th anniversary this
year. A series of three
lectures will commemorate the
MCZ’s proud past and promising
future, as well as the role
of natural history collections in
the scientific community.
The
infamous Jackalopus karelliemi,
a.k.a. ”Liem’s Jackalope,” made an
unexpected appearance at the opening
of the newly renovated Great Mammal
Hall in the Harvard Museum
of Natural History on October 16th. The perpetrator
remains unidentified and at large.
The prank honors the memory of Bigelow
Professor of Ichthyology Karel
Liem, who was a master practical
joker.
Encyclopedia
of Life has been
named among the top 16 best
educational websites by the
Telegraph, a daily newspaper
in London, UK. Telegraph.co.uk,
11/12/2009
Yael
Aminetzach, a postdoctoral
researcher in the Hoekstra lab,
shows that venomous shrews and
lizards evolved toxic proteins
in the same way. Harvard
Gazette, 10/29/2009
Farish
A. Jenkins, Jr. was awarded the
prestigious Romer-Simpson Medal
at the September meeting of the
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
in Bristol, UK. The society's highest
award honors sustained and outstanding
scholarly excellence in the discipline
of vertebrate paleontology. SVP
Annual Meeting website, 9/26/2009
