March Breakfast Club with Executive Director Jason Cryan 

Saturday, March 23, 2024|9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. | NHMU Canyon 

Join us for our March Breakfast Club! This month we will be hearing from our Executive Director, Jason Cryan. While he is known as our wonderful director, he is also a scientist who specializes in the biodiversity and evolution of insects. Breakfast Club will be Saturday, March 23rd at 9:00am. After the tour, at 10:00am we will meet in the Staff Commons for breakfast, where you can talk to Jason about the tour and his role at NHMU.

Please RSVP for the tour at uunamma@nhmu.utah.edu. 

Please see the information below to join the tour virtually:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://utah.zoom.us/j/95014456691

Meeting ID: 950 1445 6691

Passcode: NHMU

Utah Food Festival Volunteer Recruitment 

Saturday and Sunday, May 4th and 5th, 2024|10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. | NHMU

The time has come – we are looking to recruit many volunteers for our FIRST-EVER Utah Food Festival! Some of you may remember the Chocolate and Cheese Festival from years past. Though this festival was very popular and loved by many, we wanted to make sure to have an event that fit within our museum's mission and strategic goals. With that in mind, the museum has decided to pivot towards a Utah Food Festival - celebrating the cultures, the land, and the people that feed us! 

This event will take place on Saturday, May 4 and Sunday, May 5 from 10am-5pm. Due to this pivot, the event IS changing with brand new vendors for the market and new takes on workshops and having an incredible outdoor food vendor serving up Belgium Waffles. We will also be hosting a variety of interesting talks, featuring our fan-favorite Scientist in the Spotlight program, and having other food-related activities and gallery tours take place throughout the weekend. We will also be partnering with the Utah Food Bank to receive food donations from the general public and museum members over the weekend! Jamie Mesrobian, Public Programs Coordinator, is taking the lead for this event.

The deadline to sign up for a Volunteer Slot will be Friday, April 19th. Many of these volunteer slots will go quickly (especially for the Workshops – always a volunteer favorite!), so if you really want to volunteer for the event, make sure to fill out the recruitment form sooner rather than later! 

Click here to sign up!

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Jamie Mesrobian, Public Programs Coordinator and Utah Food Festival Event Lead at jmesrobian@nhmu.utah.edu AND Natalie Taylor, Volunteer Coordinator at ntaylor@nhmu.utah.edu 

PRE-Utah Food Festival Volunteer Recruitment 

As you have, most likely, seen above we are about to host our FIRST-EVER Utah Food Festival! 

We also need your help BEFORE the event! We’re going to have a really fun Dino Diner Activity Zone over the event weekend so that families can have fun crafting whilst learning about different herbivores and carnivores from the paleo-world! In order for this craft to be a success we need a TON of different herbivore and carnivore templates to be cut out before the event. If you’re available and willing to help us out in this way, that would be incredible! We will set you up in a 5th floor conference room with all the supplies you need to be successful! 

The deadline to sign up for a Volunteer Slot will be Friday, April 12th. 

Click here to sign up!

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Jamie Mesrobian, Public Programs Coordinator and Utah Food Festival Event Lead at jmesrobian@nhmu.utah.edu , Lydia Hall, Public Programs Assistant and Dino Diner Activity Zone Lead at lhall@nhmu.utah.edu , AND Natalie Taylor, Volunteer Coordinator at ntaylor@nhmu.utah.edu 

Gala 2024 - Staff and Volunteer Kick Off and Theme Reveal 

Tuesday, March 12, 2024|2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | 5th Floor Staff Commons

Join your colleagues in the Museum’s Philanthropy department to kick off the 2024 Gala – scheduled for Thursday evening, June 20. We’ll gather in the staff commons on March 12th at 2:00pm to share event details and how you can be involved in this fun annual event. We’ll also reveal the theme and name of this year’s event and enjoy some thematic sweet treats.

We hope you’ll join us to kick off the Museum’s most important fundraiser of the year!

Kiley

Current Volunteer Openings

You can always view our open positions and read their descriptions at https://nhmu.utah.edu/volunteeropenings 

We are currently accepting applications for the following positions:

• Animal Handler 

• Gallery Interpreter: Anthropology/Archaeology

• Gallery Interpreter: Climate 

• Field Trip Junior Science Academy Classroom Assistant

• Field Trip Gallery Guru

• Field Trip Tidbit Tour Guide

• Field Trip STEM Facilitator 

• Community Outreach: Wasatch Front Volunteer

• Community Outreach: Statewide Volunteer

Please help us spread the word! Share these openings with anyone you think might be interested in joining the NHMU Volunteer Program. And, current volunteers are very welcome to expand their volunteer roles by taking on new positions! If you are interested in any of our openings, please email the Volunteer Program at volunteers@nhmu.utah.edu to let us know. No need to submit a new application (or go through onboarding again!).