With more than four million artifacts and specimens, the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History houses one of the most extensive and respected natural history collections in the Rocky Mountain and Plains regions, making it one of the top university natural science museums in the country. What's In a Name?: Understanding the World of Plants This exhibit examines the very human endeavor of placing names on the flowers, grasses, and tress with which we share our world. Kate BREAKEY. {small deaths}... from the collection of the Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern & Mexican Photography, Texas State University-San Marcos. A collaboration between the CU Art Museum and the Museum of Natural History. Inuit Voices in a Changing World Learn about Arctic climate and how scientific research and Inuit knowledge work together to illuminate our understanding of climate change. Audio program available via podcast or on your cell phone. Here are a couple of things that are going on in the Museum. For a list of our recent news items, please see our Museum News page. Patrick Kociolek Appointed New Director of Museum Museum Researchers Receive NSF Ecology Grant Auction of 100 stellar Navajo rugs from the Toh-Atin Gallery in Durango Museum Insights Be sure to read the new electronic version of our Fall Newsletter (7.5MB - requires Adobe's free Acrobat Reader) Object of the Month! Find out about the stars of our collections. Each month we spotlight one of the rarely seen Museum treasures. Sign up for the CU Museum Update! It's FREE! For general questions or comments, please email cumuseum@colorado.edu. Send technical questions and comments to the Webmaster. ©2003 CU Museum, UCB 218, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309  tel: (303)492-6892