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From snails to whales, algae to mahogany, our collections preserve an astonishing range of species illustrating the breadth and complexity of our Earth's biodiversity.
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Events
Fat Bear Week Kickoff Party
Fat Bear Week Kickoff Party
Morrill Science Center II, Room 146 9:00am - 5:00 pm Thursday, September 18, 2025
Join the UMass Natural History Collections for a kickoff party for Fat Bear Week, an annual tournament sponsored by the National Park Services celebrating bears as they get ready for hibernation. Meet the bears and make your bracket. Winners get a prize!
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Introducing Pre-College Students to Our Collections
Introducing Pre-College Students to Our Collections
The Herbarium hosted 20 students enrolled in the UMass Summer Pre-College Residential Program course Botanical Breakthroughs: Exploring Biochemical Properties of Plants, June 29-July 12, 2025. During this 2-week course, students explored how plant-based products are used to cure diseases. Students gained hands-on experience collecting, preserving, and identifying plants by collecting plants around the Campus Pond. In the herbarium, after drying their collections they then learned how to make museum quality herbarium voucher specimens. The vouchers were then included as part of their poster session presentation on the plants they were studying. In addition they learned how to seek and find specimens in the herbarium collection.
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