Latest Awards + Honors
Mariela Pajuelo named University of Florida advisor of the year
Mariela Pajuelo, an assistant scientist at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has been named advisor of the year by…
Florida Museum of Natural History among winners of Gainesville Beautification Award
At a recent ceremony, the Gainesville City Beautification Board recognized ten local businesses and organizations with the 2025 Gainesville...
Charles Cobb named UF Research Foundation 2025 professor
The University of Florida Research Foundation has named 35 of the university’s most productive and promising faculty members as UFRF…
Florida Museum announces 2025 Austin, biodiversity and Bullen award winners
The Florida Museum of Natural History has announced the winners of its annual Austin, biodiversity and Bullen graduate student awards,…
National Academy of Sciences names Megan Ennes early career fellow in education research
Megan Ennes, curator of museum education at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has been named a 2024-2026 research fellow…
Florida pottery expert, Ann Cordell, receives lifetime achievement award
Florida is peppered with broken pottery, vestiges of a time when Indigenous people throughout the peninsula molded clay into cooking…
Florida Museum curator helps team score 1st-place and $5 million in international biodiversity competition
Robert Guralnick, curator of bioinformatics at the Florida Museum of Natural History, is a member of an international team that…
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