Yale Daily News

Updated: Friday, November 20, 2009 4:28 p.m.

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Richard honored for work in sciences

Contributing Reporter
Published Thursday, April 24, 2008

Few careers include both research on lemurs in Africa and successful negotiation of environmental reform. But Alison Richard — one-time University provost and former Director of the Yale Peabody Museum — has somehow managed all this and more.

The Peabody Museum presented Richard with the Addison Amery Verrill Medal for achievement on Wednesday, its highest honor for achievement in the natural sciences. The award ceremony, which was preceded by Michael Novacek’s lecture on global trauma to ecosystems, was held in Luce Hall in front of an audience of about 170 faculty members and...

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