Writing Center

Midterms are upon us, and we’re practicing the art of the pause here at the Museum of Natural History. Join us for one or all three upcoming events designed to help you unwind and recharge through origami, movement, and mindfulness at the museum.

Origami in Bird Hall
Step into the calm of Bird Hall for an origami break led by Mary Alice, our Visitor Services Coordinator. Fold peaceful paper birds, quiet your mind, and take a moment to breathe. No experience needed — just show up and recharge.
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The DeLTA Center Roundtable Discussion is an event that expands the interdisciplinary research community by promoting reciprocal interactions between basic and applied researchers. These events showcase presenters from a wide variety of academic disciplines and an open discussion about implications of the presenter's ideas across fields of study and research.

This roundtable event features Dr. Jeff Cockburn. Jeff is an Assistant Professor the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the...

Mihailis Diamantis, University of Iowa

“The Corporate Artifact”

Writers' Workshop graduate Sara Gilmore will read from her newest poetry collection, The Green Lives, and poet Alicia Wright will read from her newest poetry collection, You're Called by the Same Sound.

NYU Press describes The Green Lives as "[finding] joy in paradoxes from which felt sense can expand." Poet m.s. RedCherries praises The Green Lives as "an intuitive, nearly prescient, voice [that] reads as if it were a whisper or hymn," while Margaret Ross says: "These poems churn with Heraclitean...