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Congratulations to this year’s graduates of the Richard Gilder Graduate School! This week, the Museum held its 2026 commencement under the iconic Blue Whale, celebrating six doctoral graduates and 16 Master of Arts in Teaching Earth Science Residency Program graduates. Photo: Alvaro Keding/© AMNH

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🎓 Since the first cohort entered in 2012, the MAT ESRP has prepared 220 Earth science teachers, reaching approximately 100,000 students in New York and beyond.

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🐋 In addition, the Museum conferred an honorary Doctor of Science degree to distinguished entomologist and renowned educator May Berenbaum, who is the director of the Center for Advanced Study and Swandlund Endowed Chair of the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.