#  Congratulations to Javier Ortega-Hernández, recipient of a Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship award 

 





Javier Ortega-Hernández (MCZ Curator in Invertebrate Paleontology and OEB faculty member) and Rudy Lerosey-Aubril (research scientist) were awarded a Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship award for their project *A fresh North American view into the Cambrian Explosion – new insights into the paleobiology and exceptional preservation of the 500-million-year-old Marjum biota from Western Utah.*



 

May 28, 2025

 

 

     ![Four paleontologists taking a break inside a storage container, with excavation tools around them and holding a fossil, wearing field hats and sunglasses.](/sites/g/files/omnuum6431/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/by%20JOH_MCZ%20crew%20taking%20a%20break%20in%20the%20field.jpg?itok=fPO2qGms) 

Ortega-Hernández (far left), Lerosey-Aubril (far right), with colleagues in the field



 



 

 

 



 

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