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Elizabeth Nesbitt

December 11, 2023

New faculty books: Story and comic collection, Washington state fossils, colonial roots of intersex medicine

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Three new faculty books from the University of Washington cover wide-ranging topics: life in the Rio Grande Valley, fossils of Washington state and the colonial roots of contemporary intersex medicine. UW News talked with the authors to learn more. Collection highlights life in Rio Grande Valley “Puro Pinche True Fictions” is a collection of short…

December 10, 2018

Ancient whale named for UW paleontologist Elizabeth Nesbitt

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A new species of whale discovered in 33-million-year-old Oregon rock has been named for Elizabeth Nesbitt, a curator at the Burke Museum and faculty member in the UW’s Department of Earth and Space Sciences.