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Saturday with a Scholar at the STEAM factory
Join us at the STEAM Factory for our newest core program, scheduled on the last Saturday of every month for a morning program for the whole family!
The first program on March 31, 10am - noon…
Book trek - discuss a book with scientists
Join us for our new Book Trek program, a collaboration of the Museum of Biological Diversity and Orton Libraries. Each month we will discuss a book and you can ask scientists questions.
We…
Mussel research facility featured in New Scientist Magazine
Mussel pain: The crisis engulfing our freshwater molluscs
"Freshwater mussels are among the planet’s most endangered animals. Extreme conservation measures are the last…
Interview with Rachelle Adams
EEOB Assistant Professor, Rachelle Adams, discusses the Museum of Biological Diversity with COSI's Chief Scientist, Paul Sutter.
View the video here.
New publication: Revision of Habroteleia
Chen, H-y, Talamas, EJ, Masner, L, Johnson, NF (2018). Revision of the world species of the genus Habroteleia Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae, Scelioninae). ZooKeys 730: 87-122…
LepNet Project Milestone: Skipper Butterflies In the Database
We have reached the first big milestone in the LepNet project: the skipper butterfly specimens in the collection, 15,761 specimens to be precise, are now in our online database and freely…
Animal sounds featured in OSU art exhibit
We love collaborating with artists and this time the show featuring 16 sound files from our archive will be especially exciting as it takes place right after the peak of the (partial) solar…
Monitoring the Muskingum river for invasive fish
The Fish Division under the lead of Brian Zimmerman and with a grant from ODNR is carrying out a project to survey the Muskingum river watershed for invasive fish species. Last Friday Marc Kibbey…
new study published (Borror lab)
Lisa Miller, a Zoology major at OSU, now graduate with honors, did all the hard lab work for this study: supported by an NSF-REU grant she genotyped 285 blood samples collected from Puget Sound…