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Peabody events
The Peabody Museum of Natural History will feature two events of interest for children this month.
"Dinosaur Days" will be held Monday-Saturday, Feb. 20-25, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. This annual celebration of paleontology and dinosaurs will offer activities for the entire family, including a fossil dig, fossil touch table, dinosaur arts and crafts, and the opportunity to meet experts and watch them prepare dinosaur bones for display. A puppet show will be held each day at 11 a.m. and a special activity each afternoon at 1 p.m.
On Sunday, Feb. 26, from noon to 4 p.m., the museum will team up with the New Haven Dental Association and Dudley the Dinosaur for an educational program designed to teach the entire family about dental hygiene. Titled "Dino-Mite Dental Day," the event will offer many of the same hands-on activities from the "Dinosaur Days" program. The first 1,000 children will receive a free goodie bag. Both events are free with museum admission.
The museum is located at 170 Whitney Ave. Admission is $7 for adults, $6 for seniors ages 65 and over, and $5 for children ages 3-18; free with Yale I.D. For more information, call (203) 432-5050 or visit the website at www.peabody.yale.edu.
The Yale University Women's Organization (YUWO) will host the second lecture in its spring series, "Imaging the Divine in Ancient Greece," on Wednesday, Feb. 22.
Milette Gaifman, assistant professor of the history of art and of classics, will speak on "Images Between Abstraction and Figuration" at 10:30 a.m. in Rm. 119, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St.
The series is open to members of YUWO and their guests. The fee for the series is $35 per person. For more information, call (203) 562-2894.
The Office of Health Promotion and Education at University Health Services and the Department of Athletics are co-sponsoring their annual spring walking program, titled "Work Together, Walk Together."
The five-week series will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays, beginning Tuesday, March 21, at 12:10 p.m. at 17 Hillhouse Ave. Participants are encouraged to walk at their own pace. The sessions will meet rain or shine, and are free and open to the Yale community. No registration is required.
For more information, call (203) 432-1892.
The Office of the Secretary is accepting applications for two university-wide prizes: the Porter Prize and the Field Prize.
Competition for these prizes is open to all students enrolled at the University for a degree.
The John Addison Porter Prize is awarded for a work of scholarship in any field in which it is possible, through original effort, to gather and relate facts and/or principles and to make the product of general human interest. The Kingsley Trust Association (The Scroll and Key Society) established the award in 1872 in honor of the late professor Porter, who received a bachelor's degree from Yale in 1842.
The Theron Rockwell Field Prize, established in 1957 by Emilia R. Field in memory of her husband, an 1889S graduate of Yale, is awarded for a "poetic, literary or religious work" of scholarship.
Entries must be submitted before 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 6, to Barbara Mordecai, Office of the Vice President and Secretary, 105 Wall St. For more information, call (203) 432-2311 or visit the websites at www.yale.edu/secretary/prizes/fieldprize.pdf or www.yale.edu/secretary/prizes/porterprize.pdf.
The School of Music, in partnership with New Haven Public Schools, is seeking musical instruments for a new program that provides free instruction to 500 students at the Lincoln Bassett School.
In the "Music in Our Schools" program, the students begin instrumental study in kindergarten as part of their core curriculum. Older children are given the opportunity to study string instruments and band instruments.
Donations of instruments are tax deductible. Drop-off locations are Sprague Hall, 98 Wall St., and Lincoln Bassett School, 130 Bassett St. To arrange for pick-up in the greater New Haven area, send e-mail to denise.meyer@yale.edu.
The Child Conduct Clinic is currently accepting children between the ages of
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YUWO lecture
Spring walking program
Porter and Field prizes
Musical instruments sought
Child Conduct Clinic
2 and 13-1/2 who are displaying behavioral problems such as lying, disobeying parents, swearing, cheating, fighting, not getting along with others or getting into trouble at school. For more information, call (203) 432-9993.
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