<div dir="ltr"><div class="im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I have the wonderful opportunity to be the director at the Joseph Moore<br>Museum at Earlham College. With that position, I get to teach one course<br>
per year in "Museum Studies." My goals with the course are to first train<br>students in the most useful skills they will need to go on as collections<br>managers or curators or researchers who use collections, and second, for<br>
students who may never work in/for a museum in the future, to convince them<br>of the importance of biological collections so that they will be educated<br>lifelong museum advocates.<br><br></div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Here is where I ask for *your input:*</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(1) what are the *skills *you want incoming collections manager, graduate</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div class="im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
students or curators to have?<br><br>(2) we will read an article each week in which someone has published their<br>research using specimens/collections as a primary source of<br>information/data. For example, ancient DNA, isotope, morphological studies.<br>
</div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">What are some of the best *examples of collections-based research* you</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div class="im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
thinkI should include?<br><br>Thanks for your input,<br><br>Heather</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">
<p>Heather<br>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt">Heather
R. L. Lerner, Ph.D., M.S.</span><br><a href="http://earlham.edu/jmm" target="_blank">Joseph Moore Museum</a> Director<br>
Assistant Professor of Biology<br>
Earlham College<br>
801 National Road West<br>
Richmond IN 47374<br>
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