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 19-24, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. This annual celebration of paleontology will offer a fossil dig, 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. 25, 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. Admission is free on Thursdays, 2-5 p.m. For more information, call (203) 432-5050 or visit the website at www.peabody.yale.edu.
The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) is soliciting art work to display at the eighth annual AIDS Science Day conference in April.
The contest winner will receive $150. The winning design may be used in the conference poster. Three runners up will receive $25 each and their work will be displayed at the conference.
AIDS Science Day highlights the HIV/AIDS research being conducted at Yale and CIRA's two collaborating institutions, the Hispanic Health Council and The Institute for Community Research, and within the community.
The theme of the poster is "AIDS at 25; What Has the Epidemic Meant to You?"
The deadline for submissions is Thursday, March 1. Art work should be 10 inches by 16 inches, or smaller. Entries may be submitted in either illustrated (black ink on white paper) or digital format (hi-resolution PDF, 300 dpi at 100%).
Entries should be submitted to CIRA, 40 Temple St., #1B, New Haven, CT 06510.
For more information, contact Gai Pollard at (203) 764-4343 or gai.pollard@yale.edu.
The official installation of John Hollander, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English, as poet laureate of Connecticut 2007-2011 will take place 4-5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 7.
The ceremony will be held at the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. A reception will follow. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.cultureandtourism.org or call (860) 256-2800.
The Department of Classics is accepting applications for Berkeley, Biddle and Woolsey traveling fellowships from graduate students in classics and undergraduate majors in classics or archaeology.
The purpose of the fellowships is to enable students of classical antiquity to view the monuments, topography and landscape of the ancient world at first hand. They are not specifically designed for archaeologists or research travel, although a program of study or research often makes an application more compelling.
New students in classics, graduate and undergraduate, are encouraged to examine some of the programs available for study in Greece and Italy. Especially recommended are the Summer School of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the equivalent program through the American Academy at Rome, which where were established for philologists, not archaeologists. These programs are an efficient and professional way of learning about the monuments of antiquity for those who find it difficult to schedule an archaeology course in their programs. Some priority will be given to advanced students and to those who have not had an opportunity for travel to the Mediterranean, but the committee follows no rigid priorities in making its decisions.
Awards have not exceeded $1,800 per applicant in the past, but the amount varies annually depending on the annual income from the prize funds, the number of applicants and the merits of the proposals.
Applications should consist of a statement of the proposed plan of travel, an expense budget, together with a brief signed statement of support from a faculty member, to be submitted by noon on Wednesday, April 4. Applicants should bring their travel applications to the Department of Classics business office, 402 Phelps Hall, 344 College St., where they should complete a form with their full legal name, year of graduation, nationality, gender and e-mail address. Applicants should indicate whether they have received a travel grant from the Department of Classics in the past, specifying the year and amount. They will also be asked to indicate travel funds they have received or applied for from any other university source.
Those who are awarded travel fellowships will be asked to submit a written report on their experience together with receipts for their chief expenses. The report should be received by the second week in September. The award is intended for use in the summer of 2007 only.
The Yale University Library will host a lecture by Jonathan Holloway, professor of African American studies, history and American studies, in recognition of African American History month and as part of its "Global Faces of the Yale Library" season of events.
Holloway will read from the introduction of his work in progress, "Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory, Identity and Politics in Black America, 1941-2000," on Friday, Feb. 23, at noon. The event will take place in the lecture hall of Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High St. The talk is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception in the library's Memorabilia Room.
T H I S
CIRA art contest
Hollander to be installed as poet laureate
Classics traveling fellowships
Library lecture
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