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February/May 2013 NEWS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY theMammoth FEB/MAY 2013 The Friends of the Museum support, promote, and advocate for the Museum. The Science of Spiders IN THIS ISSUE Sunday with a Scientist Dinosaurs & Disasters! 2013 Friends Annual Meeting ............ 9 Tree of Life ......................................... 10 Spotlight on the Sorensens................ 11 Dinosaurs & Disasters ........................12-13 Students Kyle Warday and Sunday with a Scientist ......................14-16 Shannon O’Connor explore the Vrana Donates Mosasaur Skull........... 17 new “Tree of Life” exhibit. New Bird Species at Ashfall............... 18-19 A special, expanded Sunday with a Scientist event exploring spiders and other creepy crawlies set an & MORE! attendance record in February. Learn more on page 15. Photo by Troy Fedderson/University Communications friendsofthemuseum.org MORRILL FRIENDS OF THE MUSEUM UNIVERSITY OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS NEBRASKA HALL Art Zygielbaum, President Ed Schmidt STATE MUSEUM STAFF CALENDAR Diane Pratt, Vice President Natasha Vavra Mel Thornton, Treasurer Director: Priscilla C. Grew AT A GLANCE Mark Brohman, Secretary EX-OFFICIO Priscilla C. Grew Associate Director: Mark Harris Kelli Bacon ADVISORY COUNCIL Rod Bates Informal Science Education: Judy Diamond, Curator May 18 Connie Pejsar Erin Colonna Colorful Creature Day Ross Secord Eileen Cunningham Education Coordinator: Kathy French A family-friendly event with Norm Smith Gary Gabelhouse Museum Associates: Ann Cusick art and LIVE animals. Mike Zeleny Marcia Hollestelle Cindy Loope Georgianne Mastera ASHFALL CHAPTER Annie Mumgaard May 19 Lois Mayo Ruan Pohlman, Tory Petz Sunday with a Scientist David Rowe President “Microbes Rock” Anthropology: Alan Osborn, Curator 1:30-4:30 p.m. Collections Assistant: Sarah Goetsch Nebraska Archaeological Survey: Alan Osborn CONTACT INFORMATION June 16 Botany: Robert Kaul, Curator Sunday with a Scientist Director’s Offi ce (402) 472-3779 Collection Manager: Thomas Labedz “Chemistry: Harry Potter Museum Information Line (402) 472-2642 Collections Assistant: Linda Rader Style” School Program Reservations (402) 472-6302 1:30-4:30 p.m. Friends Offi ce (402) 472-3779 Entomology: Brett Ratcliffe, Curator Mueller Planetarium (402) 472-2641 Collection Manager: M.J. Paulsen Nebraska Hall Offi ce (402) 472-2643 July 21 Ashfall Fossil Beds (402) 893-2000 Sunday with a Scientist Geology: R.M. (Matt) Joeckel, Curator Trailside Museum (308) 665-2929 Museum Geological Specialist: Karl Baumgarten “Benefi cial Backyards” 1:30-4:30 p.m. Invertebrate Paleontology: Robert Diffendal, Curator www.museum.unl.edu (No Sunday with a Parasitology: Scott Gardner, Curator Scientist event in August] Collection Manager: Gabor Racz Sept. 22 Vertebrate Paleontology: Jason Head, Curator Sunday with a Scientist Ross Secord, Curator Collection Manager: R. George Corner “Agate Fossil Beds” Preparators: Gregory Brown 1:30-4:30 p.m. MORRILL HALL Robert Skolnick Highway Salvage Paleontologist: Shane Tucker Oct. 11 South of 14th and Vine Streets (402) 472-2642 Claire M. Hubbard Lecture University of Nebraska Zoology: Patricia Freeman, Curator Hosted by the Sheldon Lincoln, Nebraska Collection Manager: Thomas Labedz Museum of Art, in conjunction with the First Peoples of the Open Year Around Affi liated Courtesy, Adjunct, and Emeritus Faculty: Anthropology: Thomas Myers Plains exhibit gallery. Monday-Saturday: 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Thursdays: 9:30 a.m. - 8 p.m. (Open Late!) Entomology: Mary Liz Jameson Details coming soon Sundays: 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Geology: Samuel Treves Closed Easter, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Invertebrate Paleontology: David Watkins Oct. 20 December 24-25, and January 1 Parasitology: John Janovy, Mary Lou Pritchard Sunday with a Scientist Planetarium Closed Mondays & Husker home football Vertebrate Paleontology: Robert Hunt, Jr., “Agate Fossil Beds” game Saturdays M i c h a e l V o o r h i e s 1:30-4:30 p.m. Zoology: Hugh Genoways, Paul Johnsgard ASHFALL FOSSIL BEDS Ashfall Fossil Beds Superintendent: Rick Otto Oct. 24, 25, & 26 Museum Specialist: Sandy Mosel Fright at the Museum 86930 517 Avenue (402) 893-2000 Royal, NE 68773 A fundraiser for Morrill Hall! Trailside Museum Staff Assistant: Pattie Norman Located seven miles north of Highway 20 between 5:30-8:30 p.m. each night Royal and Orchard, Nebraska. Accounting Clerk: Judy Ray Discovery Shop Manager: Marisa Kardell Open Seasonally. museum.unl.edu Graphics Design Specialist: Joel Nielsen For schedule, visit ashfall.unl.edu Exhibits Specialist: West Schomer Mueller Planetarium Supervisor: Jack Dunn TRAILSIDE MUSEUM Public Relations Coordinator, Friends Liaison, and Mammoth Newsletter Editor: Dana Ludvik PO Box 462 (308) 665-2929 Research Collections Staff Secretary: Gail Littrell Crawford, NE 69339 Scientifi c Illustrator: Angie Fox Located on Highway 20 at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. Open Seasonally. The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is an equal opportunity educator and employer. For schedule, visit trailside.unl.edu © 2013, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved. 2 T H E M A M M O T H Friends of the University of Nebraska State Museum FROM THE DIRECTOR DEAR FRIENDS, Springtime 2013 in the Museum has brought new Friends, new Board members, and new additions to our staff and new partnerships! I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to all our staff, Board members and officers who have completed their terms and I extend a cordial welcome to all the newcomers to the Museum family whom you will read about in this issue of the Mammoth. Perhaps most emblematic of springtime is the success of our joint effort with our friends in Mie Prefecture, Japan in their application to receive American dogwood trees under the Friendship Blossoms initiative of the U.S.-Japan Bridging Foundation, the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. On April 26, the day of our Museum Volunteer Recognition event, there will be a special ceremony in Mie Prefecture for the receipt of 28 dogwood trees that are to be planted at 9 elementary schools, a library and on the campus of Mie University. These trees are part of an exchange of trees that commemorates the gift from the City of Tokyo in 1912 of 3000 cherry trees to the United States – the trees that became so beloved each springtime in the nation’s capital. We were thrilled that the Miss Mie exchange activities in which we participated in 2008-2011 were recognized by the Foundation as qualifying the Miss Mie Friendship Association to be recipients. In another partnership, we co-hosted the mid-year meeting of the Mountain Plains Museums Association (MPMA) in Morrill Hall and are now busy with planning for the MPMA convention coming to Lincoln in October 2013.This 10-state Association includes museums of all sorts—history, art, natural history--large and small, and it will be a wonderful opportunity to showcase Lincoln. The Museum last hosted an MPMA meeting in 1971, so it is about time! Springtime has also brought a flurry of renovation activity to Morrill Hall. Thanks to the successful fund raising by the Friends and the Foundation, and the tremendous support of UNL Facilities and the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development, Prem Paul, we are embarked on almost three-quarters of a million dollars’ worth of Morrill Hall renovations—a new accessible east entrance, new elevator, new roof (reason for the big red fence!), new acoustic ceiling treatment in Elephant Hall, and new carpet! Springtime also brings a 92nd birthday and a new home in San Antonio to our long-time friend and supporter Loren Toohey and his wife Maxine. When I called Loren to congratulate him, he said he wished he could come back and collect fossils one more time in Box Butte County—where he started field work for the Museum back in 1936 as a high school student in Hemmingford. Loren asked me to give his best regards to our paleontology staff and to all those who share his love of the FROM TOP: Friendship Blossom logo; Priscilla Grew and Loren Toohey in 2005; Big Red renovation State Museum. — Priscilla C. Grew, Director for Morrill Hall: Roof replacement and installation of new accessible east entrance and elevator; Mountain Plains Museum Association logo. Feb/May 2013 3 FROM THE PRESIDENT DEAR FRIENDS, Thank you to the Friends essentially the same benefi t. for reelecting me as President As most of you are aware, the carpeting in the Museum of the Board for another year. I has deteriorated beyond repair. The cost of replacing the carpet am truly honored by your faith is $275,000. Under the leadership of Associate Director Mark in me and for the affi rmation Harris, $175,000 was found within UNL Building Services and of the direction the Board is Maintenance, $25,000 provided by Dr. Paul, and $25,000 from taking. My fi rst year has been Museum revenue funds. The Friends Board has pledged $25,000 educational and exciting. It has of the remaining $50,000. While we can take those funds from also been gratifying. I am proud our reserves, we are planning on additional fund-raising efforts to to be a team-member with the cover this amount. We will also work with the Museum to raise the current Board. Board members remaining $25,000. Based on the fact that most of the funds have represent a broad set of skills been raised, the Museum Director, Dr. Priscilla Grew, gave the “go- – from academia, law, and ahead” to the project. Art Zygielbaum fund-raising through education. The bottom line in all this is to say that you can take pride in Each member also brings an the support the Friends are providing to the Museum. We are truly enthusiasm for our Museum. Museums have touched each of us making a difference. Thank you! and affected our interests, our careers, and our destinations in life.
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