Press Room - Awards
Awards - Press Releases
01/11/2012 - Florida Museum wins two awards from Southeastern Museums Conference
09/13/2011 - Museum archaeologist receives $55,000 to analyze Swift Creek pottery
07/21/2011 - Florida Museum ichthyologist receives prestigious Gibbs Award
07/11/2011 - Museum archaeologist receives $20,000 to analyze Swift Creek pottery
07/08/2011 - UF, FSU receive $10 million for project to digitize U.S. biology collections
06/23/2011 - Florida Museum malacologist receives lifetime achievement award
06/10/2011 - Florida Museum student employee wins award at New York Book Festival
04/12/2011 - Florida Museum of Natural History names volunteer of year award winners
11/01/2010 - Florida Museum revives popular 'A for Science' free student admission offer
10/25/2010 - Florida Museum announces second annual ButterflyFest photo contest winners
10/13/2010 - UF to help sequence genome of flowering plants' ancient living relative
10/11/2010 - UF alumni give Florida Museum research boat for shark program
09/03/2010 - Kurt Auffenberg receives Fla. Museum 2010 meritorious service award
08/30/2010 - Florida Museum graduate student receives UF teaching award
08/09/2010 - Museum to lead $2.7 million worldwide project to discover fish species
08/06/2010 - Museum one of first to receive two NSF research, education grants in same cycle
05/19/2010 - Florida Museum honors volunteers of year
05/10/2010 - Florida Museum biology graduate student receives best paper award
05/10/2010 - Florida Museum of Natural History graduate student receives biology teaching award
04/21/2010 - Florida Museum curator emeritus named fellow in American Academy
01/07/2010 - Museum scientist wins $865,000 NSF CAREER Award for genetic plant research
11/30/2009 - Grant to help zoo visitors learn more about science with their cell phones
11/23/2009 - Bird sound recordings to go digital, online with help of grant
11/10/2009 - Museum receives $500,000 NSF grant to curate Lepidoptera collection
11/03/2009 - Museum, IFAS receive new NSF grant for butterfly education project
10/27/2009 - ButterflyFest photo contest winners announced
09/14/2009 - Museum researcher receives $900,000 grant for worldwide human lice study
08/31/2009 - Graduate student receives NSF research fellowship award
07/08/2009 - Graduate student receives NSF research fellowship award
06/09/2009 - Alachua County students' 'A' in science earns free Butterfly Rainforest admission
05/20/2009 - Museum scientist receives UF assistant professor excellence award
05/20/2009 - Grant for Florida wildflower and butterfly education received
05/05/2009 - Museum researcher wins award for excellence in tropical botany
04/29/2009 - Museum volunteer of year wins Work of Heart Award
04/02/2009 - Florida Museum names volunteers of year
11/12/2008 - Museum researcher honored as Entomology Society of America fellow
11/05/2008 - 2008 winners of the Austin and Bullen awards announced
04/11/2008 - 2008 volunteer of year announced
12/17/2007 - Museum receives $186,000 as part of international DNA barcoding project
11/29/2007 - Museum receives grant to continue Marion science, reading program
09/25/2007 - Museum to develop new global science education resources with help from federal grant
09/24/2007 - Museum scientist receives prestigious Order of La Florida award
06/26/2007 - UF graduate students recognized for Florida Museum research
06/20/2007 - NEH grant to help Museum care for unique Calusa Indian collection
05/07/2007 - Museum curators receive UF Faculty Achievement Recognition Award
04/21/2007 - Ada and Jaime Irizarry honored as 2007 volunteers of year
03/01/2007 - Museum Invertebrate Paleontology Division receives $280,000 NSF grant
11/22/2006 - Plant scientists receive award for outstanding service
10/19/2006 - UF student wins $80,000 international conservation award for butterfly research
05/17/2006 - Museum honors Leslie Klein as Volunteer of the Year
04/27/2006 - Florida Museum scientist elected to National Academy of Sciences
12/19/2005 - Museum receives grant to start MESS program in Marion County
10/07/2005 - Museum receives $5,000 Smithsonian grant
09/30/2005 - Butterfly exhibits win top Southeast regional award
09/08/2005 - Archaeology curator to receive travel writer award
06/30/2005 - McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity receives green building status
05/12/2005 - Archaeology curator to receive lifetime achievement award
05/10/2005 - Ocala couple receives volunteer of the year award