Hello everyone reading this! I’m here to introduce myself. My name is Laura, and I have just began working here as an assistant curator at the Frost Museum. I come from San Diego California, where I grew up and did my undergraduate work. I got my first taste of natural history collections through a couple of influential organismal courses, and then began volunteering and interning in the San Diego Natural History Museum’s Entomology Department. After finishing my bachelor’s degree, I moved to New York where I worked at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates for a few years before deciding to return to school to pursue a master’s degree at Syracuse University. Since finishing my master’s I’ve moved to Pennsylvania and am getting to know the local forests and State College. I’m thrilled to be back working in entomology collections, and hope to have an impact here at the Frost!
PS: I will be periodically contributing to posts on this blog.