Latest Awards + Honors
Florida Museum curators David Blackburn and Robert Guralnick elected 2023 AAAS fellows
Two faculty members at the Florida Museum of Natural History have been elected as 2024 fellows of the American Association…
Maria Vallejo receives Emerging Scholar Award from the Association for Academic Women
María Vallejo-Pareja, a doctoral candidate at the University of Florida, has won an Emerging Scholar Award from the Association for…
Luis Torres wins first place in the University of Florida Three-Minute Thesis Competition
Luis Torres, a second-year doctoral student in the University of Florida’s department of geological sciences, has won first place in…
Florida Museum researcher advances to finals in multimillion-dollar biodiversity competition
Over the course of four weeks this summer, a motley crew of biologists, engineers, entrepreneurs and programmers gathered at predetermined…
Stephanie Killingsworth receives award for outstanding geoscience graduate students
Stephanie Killingsworth has been named a recipient of the Winifred Goldring Award by the Association for Women Geoscientists. This national…
McCarty Woods Restoration team receives UF Champions for Change award
The University of Florida’s Office of Sustainability and the Healthy Gators Coalition recognized seven individuals and groups for the annual…
David Blackburn named UF Research Foundation Professor
The University of Florida Research Foundation has named Florida Museum curator of herpetology David Blackburn as one of its 2023…
Our Impact By the Numbers for FY 2021/2022
Staff and Faculty Teaching
93 Graduate committees chaired
118 Independent Studies supervised
Collections and Research
1,482 Collection loans of 45,253 specimens and artifacts
40+ Million total specimens and artifacts
41 New grants and contracts worth $26.9 million
206 Undergraduates and postdoctoral fellows working in the collections
12 Countries including the U.S. where Museum scientists conducted research
9 States including Florida where Museum scientists conducted research
80,261 New accessions to collections
139,887 New specimens and artifacts cataloged