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Staff

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Devon Akmon
Director of the MSU Museum and CoLab Studio
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Laura Abraczinskas
Collections Manager, Vertebrate Collections
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Denice Blair
Director of Education
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Brittany Carter
Education Program Coordinator
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Julian C. Chambliss
Val Berryman Curator of History
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C. Kurt Dewhurst
Curator of Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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Samantha Ellens
Archaeology Collections Manager
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Teresa Goforth
Director of Exhibitions
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Jeff Lambert, CHRS
Accounting/HR Administrator
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Marsha MacDowell
Curator, Folk Arts and Quilt Studies
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Natasha Miller
Community Engagement Manager
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Julie Orler, CTA
Administrative/Operations Support
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Stephanie Palagyi
Director of Marketing and Communications
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Kristin Phillips
Digital Communications Coordinator
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Abbie Stevens
CoLab Studio Program Manager
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Mark Sullivan
CoLab Studio Creative Director
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Lynne Swanson
Collections Manager, Cultural Collections
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Sunny Wang
Academic Information Technologist
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Ethan Watrall
Curator of Archaeology
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Caroline White
CoLab Education and Learning Manager
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Carrie Wicker
Museum Educator and Science On a Sphere Coordinator
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Mary Worrall
Director of Collections
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MSU Students

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Ben Adams
CoLaborator
Major: Biosystems Engineering
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Munachimso Akwali
CoLaborator and Welcome Desk
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Emily Arne
Student Exhibitions Assistant
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Sam Booth
CoLaborator
Major: Film Studies
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Jeneia Dinglasan
CoLaborator
Major: Psychology
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Delaney Henderson
Student Exhibitions Assistant
MSU Museum Exhibitions Assistant Major: Arts and Humanities Minor: Educational Studies
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Ani E. Hristova
Graduate Student/Lundrigan
Department of Integrative Biology Brain shape evolution in Mustelidae
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Rachel Lewis
CoLaborator
Major: Art History and Journalism
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Emily Paterson
CoLaborator
Major: Experience Architecture and Professional and Public Writing
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Saanch Rustagi
CoLaborator
Major: Psychology
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Sydney Urbaniak
MSU Museum CoLaborator
Welcome Desk Student Employee and CoLaborator
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