More than a dozen girls attended a weeklong, all-girls science day camp at the Burke Musuem meant to dismantle stereotypes about science: that it's for boys, that it's too difficult, that girls can't do it.
More...The Olympic Marmot becomes the official State endemic mammal, thanks to local elementary school students, their teacher, and Burke Curator of Mammals Jim Kenagy.
The University of Washington, which has
deepened its commitment to sustainable practices, has received high marks from the College Sustainability Report Card for the third year in a row.
More...Burke Museum curator of Native American Ethnology Deana Dartt-Newton is one of several faculty members in the newly created American Indian Studies department at the University of Washington.
More...Plans are coming together for the construction of a Native American longhouse-style building on the University of Washington campus.
More..."Psychedelica" seems the perfect name for a species of fish that is a wild swirl of tan and peach zebra stripes and behaves in ways contrary to its brethren. So says the Burke Museum's Ted Pietsch, who is the first to describe the new species in the scientific literature and thus the one to select the name. More...
Data from the Burke's bird collection proves valuable to studying climate change over time.
More...Burke Web Sites Win Prestigious Awards
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District VIII has awarded the Burke Museum with two Communications Awards.
The Enduring Power of Totem Poles is the recipient of the Grand Gold award in the Web Site Special Feature category and
Burke Kids is the recipient of the Silver award in the same category.
Christian Sidor, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Burke, talks to the
Seattle Times about his research on when and how mammals evolved.
The
Seattle Post-Intelligencer reviews the new Burke exhibit
Coffee: The World in Your Cup. KUOW
interviews Edwin Martinez, third-generation coffee farmer, about the
Coffee exhibit.
The Seattle Times featured a
highlight article on the Burke's "Meet the Mammals" event. Watch a
video of mammals on the move!
UW's student newspaper meets the Burke's Fish collection, teeth and all.
More...Burke Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Christian Sidor says "Its teeth, compared to other amphibians, were just enormous. It leads
us to believe this animal was a predator taking down large prey." Read more at
Science Daily and
Discovery Channel.
NWSource People's Picks '08 lists the Burke as a top 10
museum.
More...Dr. Christian Sidor, curator of vertebrate paleontology, discovered 245-million-year-old fossilized burrows in Antarctica, probably made by tetrapods.
More...Castilleja victoriae, a new species of Indian paintbrush, was discovered by Burke researchers.
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The Seattle Times features an important legal development for the fate of polar bears. The Burke hosts
The Last Polar Bear exhibit starting in late June.
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A baleen basket from the Burke's permanent collection is one of forty pieces selected by the NEH to represent the most significant accomplishments of American art and history.
More...A fish that would rather crawl into crevices
than swim, and that may be able to see in the same way that humans do,
could represent an entirely unknown family of fishes, says Burke Museum fishes curator, Ted Pietsch
. Read more...
Burke staff installed a giant mosasaur fossil in Hitchcock Hall, part of a donation of over a dozen giant fossils and specimens to the Burke collection by the Hart family.
Read more...The Burke Museum was awarded a grant for $11,000 from 4Culture. Read more...
The Burke hosted 37 middle school students for a day of hands-on ocean science, including squid
dissection!
More...Hands-on science, outdoor investigation, student challenge, and service learning: it's all part of
the Magnuson Outdoor Learning Lab (MOLL).
More...The UW Fish Collection, totaling 7.2 million specimens, will become part of the Burke Museum. More...
Summer Program 2007: Stories and Tellers
Once upon a time, the summer of 2007, to be more precise, a group of
young storytellers came together to practice the many arts of sharing
stories.
More...Dr. Mossbreath's Mystery Solved!
Twenty children participated in this summer’s Dr. Mossbreath camp. At
week’s end, they had solved an incredible mystery and found the
treasure: the lost mummy of the Burke Museum.
More...The Burke Museum is applying for federal funding through the Federal
Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.
More...Lichens of Seattle Recap
"This is amazing!" We heard this sentence frequently during the public workshop, "Lichens of Seattle." Led by lichen expert, Dr. Katie Glew, participants marveled at this intricate partnership between algae and fungus.
Learn more and see photos.Closer to Home Workshop Recap
Workshop participants enrich their connection to place by practicing techniques such as haiku writing, blind contour drawing, and map-making.
More...Broken Limbs tells the personal stories that are changing the face of our apple-growing country, from farmer to worker, to buyer to broker, to produce manager to consumer. The filmmakers, Jamie Howell and Guy Evans, live in Wenatchee and are UW graduates. With Jamie's help, Guy tells the story of his father, a third-generation apple farmer, weaving throughout the apple community and connecting to such places as China, Chile, and Seattle's Pike Place Market. Playing in the Burke's Biodiversity gallery space January 22 through April 23.
In a move to provide natural history buffs and culture hounds with an opportunity to "sound off"
and share their passions and favorite collecting stories, the Burke Museum
has posted a
new site that provides unique behind-the-scenes commentary by
staff professionals on museum exhibit activity, the latest science news,
research projects, and up-to-the-minute reports from the field – in an
informal format. Comments are welcome on the blog. Tell us about your favorite
collection – what do you collect?
A decomposing fin whale will help UW biologists to study marine ecosystems, and will become part of the Burke Museum marine mammal collection.
The Burke Museum hosted a ceremony on Oct. 6, honoring
the historic repatriation of the Stone T'xwelátse to the Nooksack Indian Tribe, with the cooperation of the Stó:lō Nation of Canada.
More... Burke wins Web award
The Burke's Archaeology of Seattle's West Point has won the Communication Arts Interactive Design competition. This Web exhibit tells the story of a remarkable archaeological find and the people who lived here 4,000 years ago. More... Kennewick Man Update
The human remains popularly known as "Kennewick Man" were featured in the
TIME Magazine cover story for March 13, 2006.
More...Arctic National Wildlife Refuge--a journal
Burke Museum's own education assistant, David Williams, traveled to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Read his articles (from a 5-day journal) found on Grist.org.
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Seattleite inspires with photos
Subhankar Banerjee's photos of Arctic 'Life and Land' are winning hearts.
More...More on Kennewick Man
Scientists continue to study remains of Kennewick Man.
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