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Number of Articles: 275

Welcome Julie!

Posted 05/13/2011 by Meghan McFarlane | Comments
We're pleased to welcome Julie Parker to the Conservation Department! Julie is the Save America's Treasures Conservator. For the next year, she will be stabilizing artifacts from our Anthropology Department in preparation for their move into the new Rocky Mountain Science Collecti…
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National Science Foundation Proposal Funded!

Posted 05/11/2011 by John Demboski | Comments

Just found out that my our National Science Foundation proposal (Co-PI Jeff Stephenson) was funded to the tune of $498,417 (year one $161,647). The funds support the 3-year long project "Uncrowding, rehousing, and electronic migration of the mammal collection at the Denver Museum of Na…
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National Science Foundation Proposal Funded!

Posted 05/11/2011 by John Demboski | Comments
John Demboski and Jeff Stephenson just found out that their National Science Foundation proposal was funded to the tune of $498,417 (year one $161,647). The funds support the 3-year long project "Uncrowding, rehousing, and electronic migration of the mammal collection at the Denver Mu…
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Bitter on the Brain Update

Posted 05/10/2011 by Nicole Garneau | Comments
First it was the tongue, then the guts, then the lungs, now researchers have found evidence that there are bitter taste receptors in the brain! Why? The scientists think that the activation of bitter taste receptors in the brain increases calcium in brain cells and this increase in calcium…
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Bitter on the Brain

Posted 05/09/2011 by Nicole Garneau | Comments
Monday mornings I sort through the weekend's long trail of emails. As part of this routine, I receive my weekly search results on "chemoreception" from pubmed.gov-- an online database of biomedical publications. Usually I scan the titles and chalk it up to a "read later" file in my head- not t…
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Your BFF is back! - Zoology Object of the Week (May 9, 2011)

Posted 05/09/2011 by John Demboski | Comments
It wasn't so long ago that staff at the Museum had to contemplate putting our specimens of Black-footed Ferrets (BFFs) into the "extinct critters" cabinet alongside Passenger Pigeons, Ivory-billed Woodpeckers, and Carolina Parakeets. Never numerous, but widespread where there were large…
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DMNS Anthropology at the Tesoro Cultural Center Indian Market and Powwow May 14 and 15

Posted 05/05/2011 by Isabel Tovar | Comments
Check out our Anthropology Department volunteers at the Tesoro Cultural Center's 11th Annual Indian Market Powwow on May 14 and 15. The event will be going on from 10 am to 5 pm during both days and will be held at The Fort in Morrison, CO. Seven dedicated and knowledgeable Anthropology volunt…
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New Library Books!

Posted 05/03/2011 by Library | Comments

Planet Arctic: Life at the Top of the World

New to the library this week is Planet Arctic: Life at the Top of the World by Wayne Lynch. "Planet Arctic takes you on a journey across stunning landscapes to a world inhabited by polar bears, arctic foxes, …
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Jungle Butterflies

Posted 05/02/2011 by Frank Krell | Comments
Dr. Dean Fanara, a medical entomologist from Elk, Washington, donated 98 butterflies from the remote jungles of northeast Colombia that he had collected in 1966. Dr. Fanara had conducted research on malaria and Chagas disease for the Pan American Health Organization in the region of Puerto Rey…
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Jungle Butterfly - Zoology Object of the Week (May 1, 2011)

Posted 04/30/2011 by Frank Krell | Comments
In 1966, medical entomologist Dean Fanara, PhD, conducted research on malaria and Chagas disease in northeast Colombia for the Pan American Health Organization. It is the land of the Bari people who had defeated several Spanish expeditions in the 16th century. Dr. Fanara enjoyed his stay and m…
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