Sentences with phrase «on museum studies»

COURSES ON MUSEUM STUDIES For details of courses on Museum Studies or aspects of curating and curatorship, see: Best Art Schools.

In the early 1990s, Thomas focused on Museum Studies at Duke Ellington.

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Paul Shapiro, the museum's director for Advanced Holocaust Studies said Desbois» work corroborates evidence found in Soviet and German archives, making «it possible for the first time to see in detail what happened on the ground in that part of the world and know that we are looking at the truth.»

Once every two months, Elm City teachers lead students on a two - week «expeditionary» project in which they deeply study a single subject, sometimes involving extensive time outside school visiting a farm, museum, or historical site.

See a 17 - foot statue of King Tut at this unique museum dedicated to the study of the ancient Middle East, which is also located on the University of Chicago campus.

On Monday, Aug. 21 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., guests are invited to join the Museum of Life and Science for a deeper look at the science behind the eclipse with hands - on activities exploring heliophysics, the study of the sun and a solarscope viewing party during the eclipse peaOn Monday, Aug. 21 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., guests are invited to join the Museum of Life and Science for a deeper look at the science behind the eclipse with hands - on activities exploring heliophysics, the study of the sun and a solarscope viewing party during the eclipse peaon activities exploring heliophysics, the study of the sun and a solarscope viewing party during the eclipse peak.

When an architectural study showed that the mansion could not handle a third expansion without costly structural work, the City Council, library board and Park District hammered out a land swap in which the Park District gave the city and library 27,000 square feet of land at Prospect Street near the Elmhurst Art Museum in exchange for 52,000 square feet of land on the north and south sides of the mansion.

The next time you visit the Nature Museum, take a little extra time to study the specimens on display.

Originally founded so that scientists and nature aficionados alike could study and share the specimens they collected, we continue to build on our legacy of natural history education at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum through immersive exhibits, critical conservation and research initiatives, public engagement and education programming.

At 11:15 a.m., Reps. Brian Higgins and Chris Collins, state Sen. Robert Ortt, Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster and others unveil the results of a rider survey and economic study on Discover Niagara Shuttle's impact on the economy, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, 5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara Falls.

The House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources has approved a bill that would launch a study to determine if Fort Ontario and the Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Museum in Oswego should be elevated to national park status.

The National Park Service (NPS) has agreed to complete a reconnaissance study on Oswego's Fort Ontario and Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Museum.

Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus) announces that the National Park Service is planning to do a preliminary study on whether Fort Ontario and the Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Museum are worthy of national park status.

Field expeditions to learn about and describe biological and cultural diversity and the history of life and civilization generally require museum scientists engage on a global scale with their counterparts to gain access to field sites, samples, and permits, and to begin a discourse of the study target.

So researchers have used genetic studies to suggest that «a few lineages survived extinction and had a really fast radiation right afterwards,» says Daniel Ksepka, a paleo - ornithologist at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, and the lead author on the paper.

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«They have evidence that hominids in Africa had already been impacting the size distribution of mammals on that continent before Homo sapiens evolved,» says paleoecologist Emily Lindsey, assistant curator and excavation site director of the La Brea Tar Pits Museum in Los Angeles, who was not involved in the study.

Dr. Jordan Mallon in the museum's fossil collections with three of the skulls he examined for his study on niche partitioning.

The study suggests that the two African elephants split at least 2.5 million years ago, and possibly much earlier, although Pascal Tassy at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, warns that looking at historical genetic divergence does not give the final word on separating species.

Victoria Arbour, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto in Canada who was not involved in the research, says that the study «reasonably seals the deal» on the long - standing mystery.

Sam Droege of the US Geological Survey and Sean Brady of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History study native bee populations on the base.

The effect these pressures have had on Irish and British goat populations has been explored in a landmark DNA study that compared modern - day domestic and feral goats with museum specimens from years gone by.

That new DNA evidence «proves the hieroglyphic text [on the mummies» coffins] to be accurate,» at least in saying the mummified men had the same mother, says Egyptologist and study coauthor Campbell Price, curator of the Egypt and Sudan collections at the Manchester Museum in England.

«It's estimated that 95 percent of the livable space on our planet is in the ocean,» said Carole Baldwin, curator of fishes at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, lead author of the study and director of the Smithsonian's Deep Reef Observation Project (DROP).

Dr Greg Edgecombe from The Natural History Museum in London, a co-author on the study, says: «Evidence of symbiotic relationships are rare in the invertebrate fossil record, and this beautiful example shows how these associations began to develop as ecosystems became more complex in the Cambrian Period.

Miller's «departure from the field will have serious ramifications for many on - going archaeological projects throughout» the Near East, where she studies plant remains to better understand agricultural economies, wrote Melinda Zeder, director of the archaeobiology program at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., in a letter sent last weekend to Richard Hodges, the museum's dirMuseum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., in a letter sent last weekend to Richard Hodges, the museum's dirmuseum's director.

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Delaware is producing a drink based on the original recipe, with the help of biomolecular archaeologist Patrick McGovern of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, who aided in the Honduran study.

Head of the study Tyler Lyson from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Colorado, adds that, «Based on what we know today, solid shells did not appear in fossil stem turtles until 50 million years after Eunotosaurus.»

The method was previously used on human organs as an anatomy study aid for medical students, and has since been adopted to digitally archive artifacts such as ancient pottery and prehistoric skulls so that students and researchers can interact with otherwise rarely handled specimens from museum collections.

Now, a new study lead by Assistant Professor Kristine Bohmann from the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, describes a new DNA method to efficiently screen many vampire bat blood meal and faecal samples with a high success rate and thereby determine which animals the vampire bats have fed on blood from.

Fiori, with support from the National Science Foundation and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C., led the first detailed engineering study on the Inca Road.

Large - scale conservation genetics studies on wild jaguars spanning across several range countries assessing these threats are rare and suffer from low sample sizes for this region,» said Claudia Wultsch, the lead author of the paper, a scientist in the Museum's Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, and a conservation research fellow at Panthera.

«This study takes us a step further [than the human microbiome], and tells us about the necrobiome, the collection of microbes on a dead body,» said Dr. Robert DeSalle, Curator of Molecular Systematics at the American Museum of Natural History, who was not affiliated with the CUNY study.

Not that deep and not that many of them,» says Janet Voight, associate curator of zoology at the Field Museum and an author of a new study on the octopuses published in Deep Sea Research Part I.

«Bioluminescence is quite common in the deep sea, and many fishes inhabiting this region exhibit complex, species - specific patterns of light - producing structures,» said John Sparks, a curator in the American Museum of Natural History's Department of Ichthyology and one of the co-authors on the study.

A new model based on ground - running birds could predict locomotion of bipedal dinosaurs based on their speed and body size, according to a study published February 21, 2018 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Peter Bishop from the Queensland Museum, Australia and colleagues.

Researchers at the American Museum of Natural History estimate s some 1,200 species of venomous fish based on DNA and anatomic studies.

The Field Museum was heavily involved with this study — the paper was co-authored by The Field Museum's Corine Vriesendorp and relied on data contributed by the Field's Robin Foster.

Hawass, Pusch and 15 other scientists continue to perform detailed anthropological, radiological and genetic studies on the precious mummies in a lab built into the basement of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo — two floors below the famous golden mask.

«On one occasion, we had access to a large hollow mountain ash tree and found catching ladders and supporting webs of juveniles inside of it, «comments the lead author of the study Peter Michalik, Zoological Institute and Museum of the University of Greifswald (Germany), about the unusual bit of luck to have a glimpse into the secluded retreats of the spiders.

Enrique Baquedano, director of the Regional Archaeological Museum of Madrid, and his colleagues described the discoveries at the meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution in Madrid on 16 September.

Martín Ramírez, from the Argentinian Museum of Natural History and co-author of the study, commented on the habitat specificity of this species, «confined to the oldest and extensively hollow myrtle beech trees in the humid forests in the western part of the Great Otway National Park, or in mountain ash trees, upon which the myrtle trees depend,» thus making an important case for the conservation of such habitats.

During their research — which involved careful study of the skulls and skins of related flying fox species in 8 different museums on 3 different continents — the researchers straightened out a second point of confusion in the scientific literature regarding these animals.

Discovered by Museum of Natural and Cultural History paleontologist Greg Retallack during a 2014 class field trip on fossils at the UO, the Ice Age trackway is the focus of a new study appearing online ahead of print in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

So with techniques normally used for studying prehistoric humans, researchers created a 3D image of Descartes's brain (above) by scanning the impression it left on the inside of his skull, which has been kept for almost 200 years now in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

The study provides «important constraints on the interpretation of rare fossils, including some of our earliest ancestors,» writes paleobiologist Derek Briggs of Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History in an e-mail.

Paúl Velazco, PhD, who formerly worked at The Field Museum and now is with the American Museum of Natural History in New York, is the lead author on the new study.

«It's worrying that land use has already pushed biodiversity below the level proposed as a safe limit,» said Professor Andy Purvis of the Natural History Museum, London, who also worked on the study.

The Canadian Museum of Nature has been very supportive of my research and promotional activities, enabling me to study benthic communities in many systems, teach marine biology on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, and popularize my findings through the media and museum exhMuseum of Nature has been very supportive of my research and promotional activities, enabling me to study benthic communities in many systems, teach marine biology on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, and popularize my findings through the media and museum exhmuseum exhibits.

«These things can grow on the pumice until they're ready to reproduce,» said Judith Winston, a marine biologist at the Virginia Museum of Natural History, who wasn't involved in the study.