13 Facts About Emily Graslie

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Emily Graslie was born on 1989 and is an American science communicator and YouTube educator.

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Emily Graslie started volunteering at the Philip L Wright Zoological Museum at the University of Montana in 2011.

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Emily Graslie presented the educational YouTube channel called "The Brain Scoop" until 2021 and hosted portions of the Big History series featured on the Crash Course YouTube channel.

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Emily Graslie earned her bachelor's degree in Studio Art from the University of Montana in 2011.

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Emily Graslie became a full-time curatorial volunteer after she graduated, while working on her master's degree in museum studies.

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Emily Graslie cleaned new specimens, gave tours, trained new interns, and acted as a teaching assistant for a class at the University of Montana.

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In June 2013, Emily Graslie was hired by Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History to become their 'Chief Curiosity Correspondent'.

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Emily Graslie continued to host "The Brain Scoop" from this new location.

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Emily Graslie was the keynote speaker at the Chicago March for Science on April 22,2017.

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Emily Graslie first appeared on YouTube in Hank Green's December 7,2012 VlogBrothers video.

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Emily Graslie left the channel and the Field Museum in early 2021.

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Emily Graslie then started her own channel and began releasing a series titled "Art Lab", focusing on the intersection between science and art.

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In May 2019, Emily Graslie announced that she would be producing and hosting a 3-hour series, on paleontology in the American Midwest, for PBS and WTTW; filming took place throughout 2019.