<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">FYI<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"'Megan Barkdull' via ECN-L" <ECN-L@ecnweb.org><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>NHMLAC Collections Study Award for graduate and undergraduate students</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">March 11, 2026 at 8:02:25 AM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ecn-l@ecnweb.org<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ECN-L@ecnweb.org<br></span></div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Hi folks, </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">If you know any students whose work would benefit from visiting and working with the Natural History Museum of LA County's collections, please encourage them to <b><u>apply for our Collections Study Award, due April 1</u></b>. </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prospective applicants should reach out to relevant curators and collections managers about their proposed collections work </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 1px; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">prior </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">to submitting an application, to ensure that the project is a good fit for our collection. For Entomology, that's myself (<a href="mailto:mbarkdull@nhm.org">mbarkdull@nhm.org</a>) and our collections manager Giar-Ann Kung (<a href="mailto:gkung@nhm.org">gkung@nhm.org</a>). An (incomplete) list of the taxa represented in our collection can be found <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oSQ6p1R07lbw8xqrZumMRkRpBXKZx54t4k12pY73gVA/edit?usp=sharing">here</a>. </span></font></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 1px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">Details of the award, including eligibility guidelines, review criteria, and the application can be found <a href="https://nhm.org/student-collections-study-award">here</a>. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 1px;">Note that students within commuting distance of NHMLAC are not eligible for this award. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">Applications should be submitted as a single combined PDF document (with a CV) via email to Dr. Nathan Smith (</span><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="mailto:nsmith@nhm.org">nsmith@nhm.org</a></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">). </span></font></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 1px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 1px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Please pass along this information to colleagues and any undergraduate/graduate students you believe would be interested in applying. </font></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 1px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 1px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Cheers, </font></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 1px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Megan Barkdull</font></span></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">_____________________________</font></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Megan Barkdull, Ph.D. (she/her)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="">Assistant Curator, Entomology</span><br style=""><span style="">Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County</span><br style=""><span style="">900 Exposition Boulevard</span><br style=""><span style="">Los Angeles, CA 90007</span></font></div><div><a href="http://mbarkdull.github.io/" target="_blank"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Website</font></a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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