Science on Saturdays: Birds are Living Dinosaurs/Dinosaurs are Stem Birds

Event Time: 
Saturday, October 15, 2016 - 10:00am
Location: 
Sterling Chemistry Laboratory See map
225 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 6511
Event Description: 

Tastes like chicken you say or should it be tastes like apatosaurus? Come listen to Professor Jacques Gauthier tell us how we know the dinosaurs didn’t really all disappear, they just learned to fly. 
Yale Scientific Magazine’s /Synapse/ will lead fun demonstrations from 10am - 11am and the talk will take place from 11am noon. Science on Saturdays is hosted by Professor Kurt Zilm. 
Science on Saturdays is an award-winning lecture series that features scientists whose passion for their work inspires us all. Each event involves a lecture by a Yale professor and engaging science demonstrations by Yale college students. Science on Saturdays provides an opportunity for Yale scientists and residents of New Haven and beyond to come together over a shared sense of wonder. Past topics have included “Why Birds Are Dinosaurs,” “Nu Frontiers in Neutrino Physics,” and “Chaperonins: Molecular Origami Machines.”    
Directions & Parking: Sterling Chemistry Lab is the building on the left of the driveway at 225 Prospect. Parking will be available on the street along Prospect, at the Yale Whale Ice Rink, and in Lot 16 at the corner of Whitney & Humphrey.