Under a grant from the National Science Foundation, laboratory staff are using state-of-the art conservation techniques to preserve bones that have long been part of the Peabody Museum collection. Here, collection manager Lyndon Murray, preparator Marilyn Fox, assistant preparator Vicki Yarborough and student assistant Bonnie Gulas '02 prepare to move a large dinosaur bone.

Skeleton Crew

Behind the scenes at the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology laboratory in the Peabody Museum of Natural History. Photos by Michael Marsland. Above Left: Volunteer Melissa Gibbons cleans the large sand table where the work on fragile dinosaur and other bones is done. Above Right: Museum preparator Marilyn Fox is shown here in a collection storage room, where bones are arranged on shelves in protective jackets made of a combination of clay, foam and plaster. Above Left: A dinosaur bone newly encased in a thick plaster jacket is measured by Vicki Yarborough before it is stored. Above Right: Using the tools of a microscope and a brush, Bonnie Gulas studies part of the skeleton of a large lizard from the Cretaceous period, 65 million to 146 million years ago. T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S Financial manager Shen is newest alumni fellow Six professors named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences Researcher finds differences in how male, female cardinals learn to sing Study shows most women are passive when faced with sexual harassment ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS Political scientist Donald Green is Whitney Griswold Professor Geneticist Shirleen Roeder named Eugene Higgins Professor Buddhism scholar Stanley Weinstein is first Lex Hixon Professor Whitney Humanities Center appoints its next leaders: Menocal and Thompson Internationally known forestry expert will join the faculty MEDICAL SCHOOL NEWS New non-invasive test detects Down syndrome in womb Researcher urges against 'one size fits all' approach in testing . . . Physical chemist from NYU is named chair of pharmacology EPH alumni make 'honor roll' for their public health careers Study: Preschoolers can be unreliable as eye witnesses SEC-inspired study finds investors lack information Summer Cabaret begins season with trip to 'Valparaiso' 'Kiss Me Kate' creator recalled Skeleton Crew Hail, Hale! OBITUARIES Richard French, musicologist who supported music libraries Noted pediatrician and children's advocate Richard Granger Jerome Myers, pioneer in the field of social psychiatry Yale coach Murray Murdoch, oldest-living National Hockey League Player Campus Notes Bulletin Home|Visiting on Campus|Calendar of Events|In the News|Bulletin Board Yale Scoreboard|Classified Ads|Search Archives|Deadlines Bulletin Staff|Public Affairs Home|News Releases| E-Mail Us|Yale Home Page