These exhibits were created by College of Idaho students in a First-Year Seminar course titled “Climate Through Things” during the Fall 2022 Semester. 

 

Each student chose a specimen from the Orma J. Smith Museum of Natural History, researching the various ways in which the specimen has meaning—in the natural world through geologic time, to humans in various cultures, to commerce or society, to religious or spiritual thought, to literature or cuisine, to ecology or chemistry, to industry or aesthetics. Their research was interdisciplinary, thorough, and creative. Here, you can view what they distilled to share with you.