Alternative Spring Break Program '07:
Includes
photos of the students participating plus
photo gallery from tours offered: the
birds collection, meteorite room, and
paleobotany collections.
Alternative Spring Break Program '06:
University
of Michigan '06 Alternative Spring Break
Program: For
one week, 27 Feb 06 to 3 Mar 06, the National
Museum of Natural History hosted two students
from the University of Michigan, School
of information, as part of the Alternative
Spring Break Program. Students selected
projects and advisors from a list
of about 20 options.
Millersville
Biology Club '06 Tour:
Friday,
24 February 2006. Organized by former
RTP intern Chris Hardy now Assistant Professor
& Keeper of the Herbarium (Millersville
University, Millersville Pennsylvania)
we hosted 10 members from the Millersville
University Biology Club for several hours
of behind-the-scenes tours featuring Paleobiology,
Birds, and Botany.
Fellows
'05 Tour of the Meteorite Vault:
Thursday,
14 July 2005.
Fellows
'05 Tour of the Mummy Vault:
Thursday,
23 June 2005.
Fellows
'05 Tour of the Burgess Shale & Springer
Echinoderm Collections:
Wednesday,
25 May 2005.
Hood
Tri Beta '04 Tour: Friday,
3 December 2004. Organized by Jim Schultes,
we hosted 5 members from the Hood College
Tri Beta Biology Club for several hours
of behind-the-scenes tours featuring Amphibians
& Reptiles, Mammals, and Paleobiology.
ESA
'03 Tour:
On Friday, 7 November 2003, the RTP hosted
the Ecological Society of America "SEEDS"
2003 Urban Ecology Student Field Trip
- "Strategies for Ecology Education,
Development and Sustainability."
A total of 25 students joined 8 professionals
from a variety of agencies for a panel
discussion followed by a behind-the-scenes
tour of Smithsonian's Natural History
Collections.
JKC
'03 Tour: Monday,
4 August 2003. We hosted 50 high school
students - Jack
Kent Cooke Foundation Young Scholars
- for several hours of behind-the-scenes
tours featuring our research and collections.
