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Personnel and Media Outreach

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Elizabeth Murray standing in front of cabinets and pulling out a drawer.

Dr. Elizabeth Murray

Dr. Murray is the Director of the museum. She joined the WSU as an Assistant Professor in 2020. Elizabeth works on various groups of wasps and bees, with a soft spot for parasitoids & pollen wasps.

e.murray@wsu.edu
Richard Zack holds up a case of butterflies in the museum.

Dr. Richard Zack

Dr. Zack is a longtime Curator and is responsible for our skyrocketing growth, contributing tens of thousands of pinned and sorted specimens each year. Rich has deep expertise on the biodiversity of the state of Washington (and beyond!).

zack@wsu.edu
Silas Bossert standing in the museum and holding a drawer of Chrysina beetles for display

Dr. Silas Bossert 

Dr. Bossert is a museum Curator who has been at WSU since 2020. Silas’s research expertise covers all bees — go ahead, ask him to identify any of the 500+ genera by sight!

silas.bossert@wsu.edu
Joel Gardner holds a bug net, intent on collecting insects in a field of flowers.

Dr. Joel Gardner

Dr. Gardner started with the collection in November 2022 and had made amazing curatorial strides. Joel looks forward to exploring the understudied insect taxa in regions around Pullman and leading museum outreach. Come visit him in the collection if you need bees identified or to check on the progress!

joel.gardner@wsu.edu

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