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How do you move a totem pole? Very carefully.

Posted 06/29/2011 by Isabel Tovar | Comments
It is not every day that the Denver Museum of Nature & Science receives a totem pole and housepost to add to its collection. Many people wonder just how we are able to transport and care for items of this size; the pictures in the slideshow above will provide an idea of some of the work we…
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The Purpose of Return

Posted 06/28/2011 by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh | Comments
Just over a year ago, the US Department of the Interior implemented a new rule to guide the return of Native American human remains from museums that could not be culturally affiliated with a modern day tribe. This new regulation, a part of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriatio…
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Lab News - 2011 Evolution Meeting (Norman, Oklahoma)

Posted 06/13/2011 by John Demboski | Comments
Off to the annual Evolution meetings June 17-21 in Norman Oklahoma (University of Oklahoma). Involved in a couple of presentations. 1) Bell, K.C., E.P. Hoberg, J.R. Demboski, J.A. Cook. Complexity in a Wormy World: Revealing Phylogeography Among Chipmunks and Pinworms. 2)…
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Lab News - Kayce Bell, Meritorious Student Paper Award!!

Posted 06/09/2011 by John Demboski | Comments

Kayce Bell, former DMNS research assistant and now current UNM Ph.D. student/DMNS research associate, was recently awarded "Meritorious Student Paper Award" at the American Society of Parasitologists Annual Meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. Her talk "Comparative phylogeography of two species o…
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Dung beetles' seed dispersal

Posted 06/08/2011 by Frank Krell | Comments
Many plants rely on animals to disperse their seeds. Animals feed on their fruit and drop the seeds with their feces. Then dung beetles get involved. Particularly in tropical ecosystems, dung beetles are important secondary seed dispersers. Roller beetles relocate them on the horizontally by r…
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Teen Science Scholars working

Posted 06/07/2011 by Frank Krell | Comments
Four high school students, Samantha Beirne, Isabelle Gunn, Brianne Palmer and Gary Olds, were selected by the DMNS Teen Science Scholar program to work in the Bison Beetle Project. The Scholars help collect samples and mount, label and sort the insect material, preparing it for statistical ana…
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New Book -- Westminster: The First 100 Years

Posted 06/07/2011 by Library | Comments

Westminster: The First 100 Years - Cultivating a Colorado Community
By Kimberly Field and Kelly Anton Forward by Dr. Thomas J. Noel Introduction by Margaret Coel "….the book showcases everything that makes Westminster special, from the residents' strong work eth…
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International Archives Day - June 9, 2011

Posted 06/06/2012 by Library | Comments
June 9, 2011 is International Archives Day! Today we reach out to our community to remind them of the importance of archival collections, and to encourage them to learn through the study of the primary sources we preserve. We are celebrating this year with the debut of our blog, which will fe…
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A New Scenario for Forming Planets

Posted 06/01/2011 by Ka Chun Yu | Comments
The disk-shaped nebula around a young star contains all of the raw materials -- gas and dust -- which can eventually accumulate into planets. How this matter actuallly ends up in planetary form is still a matter of debate. Our observational technology is not good enough yet to …
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Mandingo Spear: Anthropology Object of the Month for June 2011

Posted 06/01/2011 by Isabel Tovar | Comments
This ceremonial spear comes from the Mandingo tribe of Guinea, Africa. Benjamin Franklin Powell collected this spear circa 1925 while he was representing the government of Liberia in delimiting the boundary between Liberia and French Guinea (now Guinea). Estimated to be from around 1900,…
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