Latest Awards + Honors
National Academy of Sciences names Megan Ennes early career fellow in education research
Megan Ennes, curator of museum education at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has been named a 2024-2026 research fellow…
Florida pottery expert, Ann Cordell, receives lifetime achievement award
Florida is peppered with broken pottery, vestiges of a time when Indigenous people throughout the peninsula molded clay into cooking…
Florida Museum curator helps team score 1st-place and $5 million in international biodiversity competition
Robert Guralnick, curator of bioinformatics at the Florida Museum of Natural History, is a member of an international team that…
Three Florida Museum postdocs receive UF awards
Three postdoctoral associates at the Florida Museum of Natural History have received awards from the University of Florida highlighting their…
Michelle LeFebvre receives 2024 UF excellence award for assistant professors
The Florida Museum of Natural History’s Michelle LeFebvre is a recipient of this year’s University of Florida excellence awards for…
Botanists and archaeologists receive National Science Foundation grant to study Mediterranean history
It’s an unusual collaboration. Botanists and archaeologists don’t often work together, unless they’re studying the way people have used...
Daniels Lab receives UF Champions for Change award
The Daniels Lab at the Florida Museum of Natural History has received a Champions for Change award in recognition for their…
Our Impact By the Numbers for FY 2021/2022
Staff and Faculty Teaching
93 Graduate committees chaired
118 Independent Studies supervised
Collections and Research
1,482 Collection loans of 45,253 specimens and artifacts
40+ Million total specimens and artifacts
41 New grants and contracts worth $26.9 million
206 Undergraduates and postdoctoral fellows working in the collections
12 Countries including the U.S. where Museum scientists conducted research
9 States including Florida where Museum scientists conducted research
80,261 New accessions to collections
139,887 New specimens and artifacts cataloged