#  Javier Ortega-Hernández awarded a Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship 

 





May 28, 2025

 

 

   ![Taking a break during field work. Image courtesy of Javier Ortega-Hernandez](/sites/g/files/omnuum6811/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-07/by%20JOH_MCZ%20crew%20taking%20a%20break%20in%20the%20field.jpg?itok=4Pb4EAfR) 

 

Congratulations to Javier Ortega-Hernández and Research Scientist Rudy Lerosey-Aubril who were awarded a Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship for their project, "A fresh North American view into the Cambrian Explosion - new insights into the paleobiology and exceptional preservation of the 500-million-year-old Marjum biota from Western Utah."



 

 

 



 

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