Her collection lived in the Colorado State Historical Society until CU Boulder’s herbarium, which is part of the university’s Museum of Natural History, acquired it under curator William Weber in the ...

The Duke Herbarium is the second-largest private university herbarium in the U.S. and is home to more than 825,000 plant specimens, including some specimens almost 200 years old. Universities ...

Duke’s collection of more than 800,000 specimens of fungi, plants and algae makes the herbarium one of the largest in the country. The move to close it has drawn criticism from faculty and ...

A herbarium can offer base data for studies of climate change, invasive species, habitat loss, medicine, and conservation. Pace estimated that 20,000 hours are logged by outside visitors to the ...

Dr. Matthew G. Johnson is a Duke alum (Trinity '06, Graduate School '13) and an associate professor and the Herbarium Director at Texas Tech University. Get The Chronicle straight to your inbox.

Now the collection’s future is uncertain. Earlier this year, Duke announced plans to shut down the world-renowned herbarium, citing the high cost of maintaining the roughly 850,000-specimen ...

The herbarium of William & Mary (WILLI) was formally organized in 1968, and has since grown to over 81,500 accessioned specimens representing most of our regional vascular plant species. About one ...

The UCLA Herbarium is making its collection more accessible through its newly renovated space and digital initiatives. Founded in 1930, the herbarium features almost 150,000 specimens of dried plants.

Duke University is closing its herbarium, which is among the largest herbaria in the country, housing more than 825,000 plant species.. The decision comes amid budget cuts and staff shortages, ...

We’ve brought SciFri to Ames, Iowa this week. We’re at Iowa State University. The Ada Hayden Herbarium contains more than 700,000. 700,000 specimens collected from the Hawkeye State and beyond.