EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Kevin Bernstein
Department of Art
DIRECTORS
Jeremy Marshall
DEPARTMENT of ENTOMOLOGY
Brian McCornack
DEPARTMENT of ENTOMOLOGY
Nancy Morrow
Department of ART
Kent Michael Smith
Beach museum of Art
AFFILIATES
Amit Chakrabarti
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Carol Baldwin
Kansas Center for Agricultural Resources and the Environment (KCARE) Department of Horticulture and Natural Resources
prescribed burning, ecological and environmental issues affecting rangelands
Michael Garrity
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife
Special Assistant for the Columbia River Policy
Sherry Haar
Professor Fashion Studies
Fashion Studies, FIber Arts, and The Art and Science of Natural Dyes
Andrew Hope
Division of Biology
Mammalian Evolution, One Health
Curation of Scientific Specimen Archives
Mark Mayfield
Division of Biology
Plant systematics; taxonomy of new world Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae); plant identification and floristics.
Elise Richman
university of puget Sound
Professor, ART and ARt history
Natasha Rozhkovskaya
Department of Mathematics
John Sosoka Ⅲ
Principal Software Engineer
building AI systems and agents
Gibran Suleiman
U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE KANSAS
FISH AND WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST
Deon van der Merwe
ROYAL GD, NETHERLANDS, OkLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
Veterinary Toxicology, Environmental Toxicology and Remote Sensing Applications
Anna Marie Wytko
Saxophonist
School of Music, Theatre, and Dance
STUDENT RESEARCHERS
STUDENT FELLOW
Layne McAfee
pursuing a B.F.A. in Painting
Museum studies certification and a marketing minor
COLLECTIONS MANAGER
Ryan Grutsch
Wildlife Ecology and Management
ART MINOR
Visual Science Communicator
Kiara Hays
post-baccalaureate
Painting
Curatorial team
Sydney Barge
pursuing a B.F.A. Emphasis Painting
Museum studies certification
Visual Communications designer
Jordan Henington
Graphic DesIGN
k-12 EDUCATION COORDINATOR
Elizabeth Nagengast
pursuing a B.F.A. in STUDIO ART
EDUCATION
Environmental Science Outreach
Ashlyn Elliott
Environmental Science
Biology and Geography Minor
Department of ART
Executive DIRECTOR
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“Painting consists in using a special sense, an innate sense for composing a beautiful substance. To do as nature does: create diamonds, gold, sapphires, agates, precious metal, silk, flesh: it is a gift of delicious sensuality.”
― Odilon Redon