The Florida Museum research building hosts a rotating exhibit highlighting recent student research guided by a Florida Museum mentor. Posters are on display at Dickinson Hall for one semester and then permanently archived on this website.

Contact information for current Museum graduate students is available on the Graduate Student Directory, through links to the University of Florida departments, or via the Florida Museum mentors.

Click any poster to download the PDF.

Spring 2014

Plan of Action: How Google SketchUp Can Help Your Collections Move

Student Author: Austin Bell, PhD candidate, Museum Studies
Florida Museum Research Mentors: William Marquardt

Determining Ancient Maya Cuisine and Vessel Function at Cerro Maya, Belize

Student Author: Lisa G. Duffy, PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology

Florida Museum Research Mentors: Kitty Emery

A New Look at Subsistence and Habitat Use at the Preclassic Maya Site of Cerros, Belize

Student Authors: Ashley Sharpe, PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology

Florida Museum Research Mentors: Kitty Emery, Susan Milbrath

Reconstructing the Ancient Maya site of Cerros with Interactive 3d Graphics

Student Author: Jeffrey R. Vadala, PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology

Florida Museum Research Mentors: Susan Milbrath, Kitty Emery

Fall 2014

Evolution on continental and oceanic islands in the Aegean Archipelago: insights from the Roucelaclade (Campanula, Bellflowers)

Crowl, PhD candidate, Department of Biology

Florida Museum Research Mentors: Nico Cellinese, David Reed, Pamela Soltis

Leptosiphon and flower color: investigating color acquisition in Polemoniaceae using phylogenetics

Student Author: Margarita Hernandez, Undergraduate student; Jacob Landis, PhD Candidate, Department of Biology

Florida Museum Research Mentors: Douglas Soltis, Pamela Soltis

High School Students’ Learning and Perceptions of Phylogenetics of Flowering Plants

Student Author: Jacob B. Landis, PhD Candidate, Department of Biology

Florida Museum Research Mentors: Pamela Soltis

Delving into the C-Fern Genome and Euphyllophyte Evolution

Student Authors: D. Blaine Marchant, PhD Candidate, Department of Biology

Florida Museum Research Mentors: Scott K. Robinson, Ornithology (Committee chair, J. U.-M.); David Reed, Mammals