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Bug summer campers visit our museum
Fifteen participants (grades 6-8) of the Bug Summer camp visited our insect collection and DNA lab today.


visit of 3rd graders
On 3-May-2017 undergraduate student assistant Grant Terrell faciilitated a visit of 3rd graders to the Tetrapods collection.

REU students visit MBD
Participants in the Mathematical Biosciences Institute summer undergraduate program visited the MBD on 7 June, 2017. Their first stop was in the herbarium where Dr. John Freudenstein showedd them…

Crayfish in Maine?
Ohio State Ph.D. student Mael Glon is conducting a study on burrowing crayfishes. These crayfishes are adapted to life in habitats such as roadside ditches and vernal ponds that occasionally…

New publication from mollusc collection
Ieva Roznere, now Postdoctoral researcher and visiting sceintist, studied for her PhD project "Health assessment of freshwater mussels using metabolomics". Ieva recently published some of her…

Distinguished Staff Award
On May 1 Luciana Musetti, curator of the Triplehorn insect collection, and 11 other OSU staff members were honored with the Distinguished Staff Award for their remarkable accomplishments,…

Butterfly curation featured on Columbus Monthly Magazine
The Triplehorn Insect Collection is featured in the May issue of the Columbus Monthly Magazine. The article, entitled 'Winging it at the Ohio State University', highlights the work of volunteers…

Curator receives Distinguished Staff Award
Dr. Luciana Musetti, Curator of the Triplehorn Insect Collection, has received the Distinguished Staff Award, Ohio State University's highest honor for nonteaching staff. The award…