Mammalian Mystery: A Middlebury Professor Follows the Trail of a Bahamian Rodent

Shortly after Alexis Mychajliw arrived at Middlebury College in 2021 to teach biology and environmental studies, she went to check out the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium's natural history collection in St. Johnsbury. Franklin Fairbanks founded the museum in 1889 when he transferred his vast "cabinet of curiosities" into naturalistic displays of animals, plants and birds from all over the world.