Naomi Pierce receives the Verrill Medal from the Yale Peabody Museum

November 23, 2016
Naomi Pierce receives the Verrill Medal from the Yale Peabody Museum
Ellen Kan

MCZ Faculty-Curator Naomi Pierce was one of five recipients of the Verrill Medal from the Yale Peabody Museum.  The award is the highest honor given by the Curators of the Yale Peabody Museum, and is intended to honor “signal practitioners in the arts of natural history and natural sciences.”  Past recipients from the MCZ include Ernst Mayr and Edward O. Wilson.  Five medals were awarded this year, in part to celebrate the Sesquicentennial of the Peabody Museum.  The other recipients include May Berenbaum (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Neil Shubin (University of Chicago), Geerat Vermeij (University of California at Davis), and Sir David Attenborough (BBC Natural History).

 

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