UARK Herbarium Anniversary
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The UARK Herbarium celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2025. We celebrated it with several events featuring art, music, science, and, of course, plants. We kicked things off with a dinner in a beautiful outdoor space, under the trees and surrounded by fall colors. The event included musical performances, artwork, and scientific talks.
We also held a research symposium with talks from students and faculty from across Arkansas, as well as posters from UARK graduate students and me. My poster showed a bit of how herbarium collections are important genomic resources and how we’re using them to study the evolutionary history of the genus Agalinis. I also included a bit about the fieldwork we conducted in Brazil and the morphometrics project that honors student Tessa Sluyter is developing for the Esterhazya group.
On Saturday morning, graduate student Jenna Miladin organized the Press to Preserve event at the Fayetteville Public Library. It was open to the public and taught, hands-on, how to press plants and mount herbarium specimens (with help from grad student Morgan Russell). I was very happy to be part of this event and to celebrate such an important milestone for the herbarium. Here’s to many more years! 🥂 ✨ 🪴 🌻
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