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Mallory Bedwell

Mallory Bedwell

Mallory Bedwell Mallory Bedwell got excited about volunteering in the MVZ after visiting us on our open house on CalDay 2006, when she was a freshman at Cal. In the fall of that year, she began volunteering in the curatorial

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Zachary Hanna

Zachary Hanna

Zachary Hanna Zachary Hanna began volunteering in the prep lab in January 2006.  Over the spring semester, he learned to prepare bird and mammal specimens.  That summer he was hired as a field assistant for the Grinnell Resurvey Project.  Working

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Rayna Bell

undergrad experience

Rayna Bell Rayna Bell first got involved  in January 2006 during her junior year as a DNA lab assistant under Craig Moritz and his PostDoc, Jason Mackenzie, working on the Australia Wet Tropics Project on Hylid Frogs and Scincid Lizards. 

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Nicole Danos

Nicole - Working in MVZ Curatorial

Nicole Danos The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology is a fascinating place: fascinating, for more reasons than first meet the eye. As a Curatorial Assistant at the MVZ, I see creatures that I never imagined could exist, from places I had

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