Announcements

Undergraduate Research Positions Available!!!

The Thompson Lab of Mammalogy is seeking the help of 2 undergraduate researchers to assist with a collaborative project with the University of Michigan Medical School.  The project is examining secular changes in bone strength that have been observed in humans.  It is thought that these changes may result in part from exposure to environmental chemicals.  To

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Myers Endowed Award for Field Research established

To honor the UMMZ Mammal Division’s Curator and Professor Emeritus Phil Myers’ passion for and contributions to field biology and his commitment to education, Curator and Professor Emeritus James Patton, University of California, Berkeley, gave a generous gift to create the Dr. Phil Myers Endowed Award for Field Research.  Dr. Patton’s gift will establish a scholarship for graduate students doing field-

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Shi wins N. American Society for Bat Research’s Koopman Prize

UMMZ doctoral student, Jeff Shi, recently received the Karl F. Koopman Prize from the North American Society for Bat Research.  Shi presented “Speciation and skull morphological evolution are decoupled across extant bats”.  Shi and Michigan undergraduate, Nathan Katlein, have been utilizing bat specimens from the UMMZ Mammal Division in their research.

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Systematics of the Neotoma mexicana species group (Mammalia: Rodentia: Cricetidae) in Mesoamerica: new molecular evidence on the status and relationships of N. ferruginea Tomes, 1862

Check out our new paper on the systematics of the Neotoma mexicana species group in this issue of the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.

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