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YEEBUG 2008-2009 ANNOUNCEMENTS

Here are three cool EEB-related things going on around yale in the near future:

1. Peabody Museum of Natural History "Indigenous Peoples Day" Volunteer Opportunity
   The Peabody Museum of Natural History's first major event of the fall will take place on Monday, October 13, at the Museum - Indigenous Peoples Day, a Celebration of Native American Cultures.
   
   The Peabody is looking for volunteers to help with the event! Among other things, we have planned four different craft activities ranging from simple coloring to more complex miniature "birchbark" (stiff paper) canoe construction. In addition, we will be displaying some projectile points from the Peabody's collections that require interpretation and constant supervision. The event runs from 10 am to 3 pm, and as always if you are here over the lunch hour you are invited to join us for an informal lunch.
   
   If you are interested in volunteering, please email david.heiser@yale.edu.
   
   
2. "The Language of God: Intellectual Reflections of a Christian Geneticist"
   A Talk by Francis Collins, former Director of the Human Genome Project
   
   Thursday, October 2, 2008
   7 pm, Battel Chapel
   
   Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is a physician-geneticist famous for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project. With Dr. Collins at the helm, the Human Genome Project consistently met projected milestones ahead of schedule and in April 2003, completed a finished sequence of the human genome. Dr. Collins has been elected to the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November 2007. Through debates with "new atheists" such as Richard Dawkins and his bestselling book, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (Free Press, 2006), Dr. Collins demonstrates his intense interest in the interface between science and faith.
   
   
3. The Women In Science at Yale (WISAY) mentoring program is looking for undergrads who are interested in science as a career and would appreciate having a female graduate student mentor. The program entails meeting once a month or so with your mentor and attending as many (or as few) of our group events as you would like.
   
   If you would like to join the group, please fill out the questionnaire below and return it to ellie.hong@yale.edu so that we can match you with a mentor. You can also check out http://www.yale.edu/wisay/mentoring for a bit about our group.
   
   WISAY mentoring application to be returned to ellie.hong@yale.edu by Sept. 31:
   
   

   Name : Expected year of graduation: Major or departmental affiliation at Yale: E-mail address: Home state:   Please list any special interests you have. These may be scientific (your area of research) and/or non-scientific (hobbies, unique college majors/minors, etc):       For undergrads: You aren¹t expected to know your area of scientific interest, but if you have already considered the type of grad program you may be applying to, please list it here so we can best match you with a mentor:

YEEBUG 2007-2008 Events

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