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  • Patrick Kociolek Appointed New Director of Museum,  Dr. Patrick Kociolek has been named director of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History after a national search in 2007. He is an internationally known expert on diatoms, a type of microscopic algae, and a Board Member-at-Large of the American Association of Museums.   (April 22, 2008)
     
  • Museum Researchers Receive NSF Ecology Grant,  Three members of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History received a 5-year $396,000 award from the National Science Foundation.   (October 25, 2007)
     
  • Auction of 100 stellar Navajo rugs from the Toh-Atin Gallery in Durango,  For twenty years, the Toh-Atin Gallery in Durango has sponsored annual auctions of magnificent Navajo rugs and weavings to benefit the Joe Ben Wheat textile collection at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History.   (October 19, 2007)
     
  • Botany Section Presents Botanical Art Collection Online,  Recently the University of Colorado Herbarium added to its website an impressive collection of 41 botanical watercolors painted by the renowned artist Ida Hrubesky Pemberton during the 1930s and 1940s.   (July 31, 2007)
     
  • Paleontology Curator Awarded NSF Grant,  The National Science Foundation has awarded a Biological Research Collections grant to Karen Chin, Curator of Paleontology, for curatorial improvements of the Karl Hirsch Fossil Eggshell Collection.   (July 11, 2007)
     

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