Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Travis Olds currently serves as the Assistant Curator of Minerals at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History since December 2019. Prior to this role, Travis held a postdoctoral fellowship at Washington State University from October 2017 to December 2019. Educational qualifications include a Ph.D. in Actinide Chemistry and Mineralogy from the University of Notre Dame, completed in 2016, along with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Michigan Technological University in 2012. Travis has extensive experience in teaching and mentorship, having worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in various courses and a laboratory mentor for high school and undergraduate students. Earlier positions include a relocation consultant at the A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum and a teaching assistant at Michigan Technological University.
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Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Carnegie Museum of Natural History collects and cares for specimens and artifacts that document the history of life and human cultures. Today its dinosaur collection includes the world's largest collection of Jurassic dinosaurs and its Dinosaurs in Their Time exhibition offers the third largest collection of mounted, displayed dinosaurs in the United States (behind the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History). Other major exhibits include Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems, Alcoa Foundation Hall of American Indians, Polar World: Wyckoff Hall of Arctic Life, Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt, Benedum Hall of Geology, and Powdermill Nature Reserve, established by the museum in 1956 to serve as a field station for long-term studies of natural populations.