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The CMU Museum is excited to offer virtual field trips for K-12 groups! Our newly updated and mediated main gallery provides a wealth of opportunities, but we would like to hear about what type of program teachers prefer. We are able to provide virtual live programs or pre-recorded videos (or both, eventually). Please let us know via this survey: 
In August the Museum/Museum Studies Program entered into a new partnership with the Michigan Trails and Greenways Alliance and the Michigan History Center, Department of Natural Resources, to help develop what is tentatively known as the ?Cradle of Forestry? trail. The trail will extend on a north/south axis roughly from North Higgins Lake State Park to Hartwick Pines State Park. Graduate Assistant Sara Miller is working with Michigan Heritage Trail Coordinator Dan Spegel, Program Director Jay Martin, and faculty member Ron Bloomfield on this exciting new venture in cultural and natural history. 
This summer the Museum team was hard at work disassembling old exhibits, coordinating with the Office of Information Technology to install new equipment, and working with Facilities staff to upgrade electrical wiring and main gallery flooring. A combination of student assistants and volunteers, faculty, and staff converted the gallery into a new learning lab that allows students this fall to attend Museum Studies classes either in-person or online dependent upon their interests and health needs. The simultaneous delivery of instruction online and in-person is called HyFlex, and it allowed CMU to operate as close to normal as prudent given the limitations imposed by COVID-19. In the long run, the added technology and removal of old exhibits makes the gallery a more open, flexible space that will better serve current and future students. The Main Gallery is open to visitors when it is not being used for teaching. To find the up-to-date listing of hours, please visit 
Work resumed in-person in June on the Fluids Collections rehousing project that is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Graduate student Sara Miller, and undergraduate museum assistants Piper Mophett and Tyler Tobias worked steadily through the summer months to prepare and move over 3,000 specimens stored in ethanol to flammable storage cabinets distributed throughout spaces in Brooks Hall and Biosciences. This fall, undergraduate Museum Assistant Heather Canary re-joined Piper and Tyler to complete the project, which is slated to be done by the end of February.
In the picture you see Museum Assistants Piper Mophett (left) and Tyler Tobias preparing to move the final group of Ichthyology (fish) specimens from Rowe 211 to secure flammables cabinets in Brooks Hall.
We recently said farewell to Museum Assistant Mollie Gilin. She returned to the International Museum of the Horse in Lexington, Kentucky, to finish her museum education internship. Over the summer she developed and led virtual programs on the CMU Museum Facebook page and created activities for the Transport Truck program. Best of luck, Mollie!