. Annual report. Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. MCZ NEWS: RESEARCH Fulbright Scholar Brian Farreil. From July 2011 to July 2012, Brian Farreil was in the Dominican Republic as a Fulbright Schohu^ to tlie Univei sidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo. Founded in 1538, it was die first uni\ersit\' in tlie western hemisphere. Togedier uidi MCZ .Associate Prof. Ruth Bastardo, F"ai rell established a US-st) le learning laboratory where Dominican ;uid \isiting .American undergi"aduates can work with natural history collecdons. They expanded the scope of lab-based activities so
. Annual report. Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. MCZ NEWS: RESEARCH Fulbright Scholar Brian Farreil. From July 2011 to July 2012, Brian Farreil was in the Dominican Republic as a Fulbright Schohu^ to tlie Univei sidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo. Founded in 1538, it was die first uni\ersit\' in tlie western hemisphere. Togedier uidi MCZ .Associate Prof. Ruth Bastardo, F"ai rell established a US-st) le learning laboratory where Dominican ;uid \isiting .American undergi"aduates can work with natural history collecdons. They expanded the scope of lab-based activities so that diere ai e now fixe suidents digitizing and curating dieir collections alongside their thesis work on topics ranging from fungi to bioacoustics. Farreil curated two cabinets of MCZ specimens housed at UASD that he collected in earlier vears and established a 200-\ ()lume library of references for enlomologA /botany and evolution/ biogeography and ecology. He hosted workshops in bioacoustics and bee systemaucs, and coauthored a biology textbook that draws on many examples and case studies from Hispaniola. Farreil and Bastardo also inaugurated a new phase ill the joint digital imaging program, a collaborative project to inventory insects in the National Botanical Garden. The program is modeled after the effort with the MCZ entomology type specimens and the Boston Harbor Islands in which students are Uained by former students. "This kind of cultural and scientific exchange, connecting small museums and universities with larger ones, is the future of natural history collections, as well as education in biology," says Farreil. "Everyone ; Fai rell's efforts were frmded b\ the US Fulbright Scholai's Progi"am, die Darid Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Hai v ai d, the National Science Foundation and the US Embassy in Santo Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally
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