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July 20, 2007|Volume 35, Number 31|Six-Week Issue


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Documentary on the creation
of Peabody Museum's Torosaurus
sculpture wins regional Emmy Award

The documentary "Creating the Peabody's Torosaurus: Dinosaur Science, Dinosaur Art" has won a regional Emmy at the National Television Academy's 30th Boston/New England Emmy Awards.

The film, which was first aired as a special on CPTV, won the award for the best Education/Schools Program. It was produced by New Haven residents Ann Prum and Karyl Evans in conjunction with CPTV and Coneflower Productions. Prum also served as director and editor, and Evans as writer.

The film documents the six-year design and construction of the two-stories-tall bronze sculpture that stands outside the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. The sculpture is a full-scale reconstruction of the dinosaur Torosaurus and the final realization of artist and sculptor Michael Anderson's work to create the most scientifically accurate sculpture of a dinosaur to date.

The film documents the various stages of the project, from conception, model-making and sculpting, to the creation of a wax prototype, to the casting at the foundry, where the sections were welded together and the statue was given a surface patina. The film features interviews with Anderson and several members of the large cadre of scientists, artists and volunteers from the Peabody who contributed to the project.

The dinosaur itself is 9 feet tall and 21 feet long. At 7,350 pounds, it sits on a 13-foot, 70-ton base of Stony Creek granite, the same granite used for the base of the Statue of Liberty.

The film is now available on DVD and sold at the Peabody's Museum Store.


T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Gift of $10 million to support work of China Law Center

Studies cast new light on problems, treatment of childhood obesity

Students' summer projects designed to serve city's needs

Tennis center being transformed into state-of-the-art facility

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NEWS

Paul Genecin reappointed as director of YUHS

Postdoc honored with fellowship for research on drug delivery

Architecture School to begin new year in temporary home with talk, exhibit

Exhibit showcases diverse incarnations of Kipling's books

Manuscripts provide window into pre-20th-century Islamic life, learning

Alumni earn Yale Medals for service to their alma mater

Newly renovated Cross Campus Library to open in the fall

Exhibit highlights career of artist who 'probed the nation's ills'

Pilot Pen tournament to bring top-ranked players to Elm City

Ira Millstein is again named 'Corporate Lawyer of the Year'

MacMillan Center awards book prize to French professor Maurice Samuel

In Memoriam: Peter H. Marris

Memorial service for Helen Simpson Culler

Documentary on the creation of Peabody Museum's Torosaurus . . .

Yale Books in Brief

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