YSEA annual meeting
The Yale Science and Engineering Association (YSEA) will hold its annual meeting and awards dinner on Wednesday, April 26, in the Presidents Room in Woolsey Hall.
According to the organizers, the event embodies the YSEA motto, "Alumni working together to strengthen Yale's education of leaders for a world increasingly dominated by science and technology." Three awards recognizing excellence and accomplishment in the engineering and science community will be given to distinguished Yale-degree holders for their professional and civic contributions. Awards will also be presented to outstanding undergraduate science and engineering students.
The meeting and dinner is open to YSEA members and spouses, and members of the Yale community (alumni, faculty, students and staff). Attendance at the dinner is by reservation. The deadline to respond is April 21. For more information and to make reservations, contact Erica Brossard at (203) 432-4200 or erica.brossard@yale.edu.
The McDougal Center at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will unveil volume 4 of Palimpsest: Yale Literary and Arts Magazine at a publication party at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 27.
The annual publication continues a tradition of pushing the boundaries of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, drama, music, and graphic and book design. Palimpsest is dedicated to providing a creative forum for graduate and professional students across the University. It is funded by the McDougal Center, with additional support for this issue from the Yale University Art Gallery, the Graduate and Professional Student Senate and the School of Drama. Copies will be distributed at the party. One copy is free to graduate and professional students, faculty and staff; others may purchase the publication for $10.
The event is free and the public is invited.
The Hillel Children's School at Yale will hold an open house for families seeking an alternative Jewish education for their children 9:30 a.m.-noon on Sunday, April 30.
Attendees may observe classes in progress and talk to teachers, parents and students. Refreshments will be served.
The school, which is at the Slifka Center, 80 Wall St., meets Sunday mornings. Classes (K-7) are taught by Yale students, who provide a "creative, challenging program for Jewish children to study culture, traditions and Hebrew in a warm and accepting environment, culminating in a group bar/bat mitzvah ceremony."
For more information, contact Elana Ponet, principal, at (203) 432-8529 or ep73@pantheon.yale.edu.
The annual meeting and luncheon of the Yale University Women's Organization (YUWO) will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 3, at the New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Ave.
The guest speaker at the luncheon will be Marna Borgstrom, president and chief executive officer of Yale-New Haven Hospital and Yale-New Haven Health System.
Also at the meeting, scholarships for continuing education will be awarded to women of the University community whose formal education has been interrupted or delayed, and who wish to enhance their present careers or change careers through additional education.
The meeting is open to members of YUWO and their guests. For more information, call (203) 315-1387.
The Peabody Museum of Natural History will feature several events in May, including a field trip, a plant sale and gardening seminars.
On Saturday, May 6, at 8 a.m. Dan Barvir, an East Rock ranger and naturalist, will lead the museum's annual warbler migration field trip to East Rock Park. Participants should meet at Rice Athletic Field in the park. For more information and directions, contact the Peabody events office at (203) 432-3776 or peabody.events@yale.edu.
On Saturday, May 6, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. the museum will host a "Cinco de Mayo Music and Craft Celebration." Offered in both English and Spanish, the program will recognize the Mexican festival of Cinco de Mayo with music and craft activities for children. The event is appropriate for children age 4 and above.
On Saturday, May 13, the museum's fifth annual butterfly and bird plant sale will be held 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Visitors will find several varieties of native and nonnative, noninvasive plants that provide nectar for adult butterflies, food for butterfly larvae, and seeds and berries for birds. All proceeds support educational programs for area students. The event will take place under the tent outdoors. Admission to the tent is free.
Also on Saturday, May 13, the Peabody will host two gardening seminars. At 11 a.m., Peter Picone, wildlife biologist with the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, will offer advice on designing a proper habitat for birds and butterflies. At noon, Carol Lemmon, retired deputy state entomologist and president of the Connecticut Butterfly Association, will lead a seminar titled "Plant It and They Will Come: Attracting Butterflies to Your Yard" in the auditorium.
The Peabody Museum is located at 170 Whitney Ave. All programs and exhibits are free with admission unless otherwise noted. Admission is $7 for adults, $6 for seniors 65 and over, $5 for children 3-18 and other students with I.D.; free with valid Yale I.D.
The Parenting Center and Child Conduct Clinic offers instruction to help develop effective ways of handling the challenges of parenting. Activities covered include bathing, bedtime, dressing, sibling rivalry and homework. For more information, call (203) 432-9993.
Yale Youth Hockey will conduct tryouts for the 2006-2007 season for all travel teams, mite level (ages 7 and under) through bantam level (ages 13 and 14), starting April 27 at Northford Rink. The tryout fee of $200 applies against annual cost. For more information and to register, visit www.yaleyouthhockey.com.
T H I S
Magazine publication party
Hillel open house
YUWO annual meeting
Peabody events
Child Conduct Clinic
Youth hockey tryouts
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