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Ohio Birds class in full swing
Like every spring semester the Ohio Birds class is in full swing! 56 students are eager to learn about the life of birds and how to identify birds in the field. We use our museum specimens to take…
Drawing class in the Tetrapods collection
On January 13, 2017 a drawing class from the Columbus Cultural Arts Center worked with some of the more unique tetrapod specimens for varying media pieces.
We exceeded our goal!
THANK YOU everyone for your contribution to our fundraiser. We exceeded our goal of $5,500 and are getting ready to roll our extinct specimens to safety.
If you want to watch some of those…
October is Tetrapods month - help us preserve them
Let’s make October the month of tetrapods. Think about the changes in the lives of these four-limbed creatures in fall as they prepare for a long cold period with limited access to food. Birds…
October is Tetrapods Month - Help Us Preserve Them
Let’s make October the month of tetrapods. Think about the changes in the lives of these four-limbed creatures in fall as they prepare for a long cold period with limited access to food.
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Huayan Chen wins first prize on oral presentation
Huyan Chen, graduate student in Norman Johnson's lab and collection associate, won the first prize on the Graduate Student Oral Competition: Morphology, Systematics, and Phylogeny:…
Tripelhorn Collection at the 2016 ECN & ICE meetings
Staff and students associated with the Triplehorn collection attended the 2016 Entomological Collections Network & the International Congress of Entomology in Orlando,…
Ohio State University cicada collection gets us in the spirit for the latest brood
In antecipation of the emergence of the 17-year cicadas of Brood V here in Ohio, The Columbus Dispatch came to visit the Triplehorn Insect Collection to see what other species of cicadas…
Dr. Luciana Musetti wins Arts & Sciences staff award
Dr. Luciana Musetti, Curator in the Triplehorn Insect Collection, has been awarded an Outstanding Staff Award by the College of Arts and Sciences. She is one of six individuals college-wide…