<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ausich, William</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ausich.1@osu.edu">ausich.1@osu.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 1:46 PM<br>Subject: A Dinosaur for the Orton Geological Museum<br>To: "Winer, Brian" <<a href="mailto:winer.12@osu.edu">winer.12@osu.edu</a>><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I am the Director of the Orton Geological Museum in the School of Earth Sciences at Ohio State University. The Museum is in Orton Hall is free and serves
a major function in STEM outreach to students from throughout the State of Ohio. We host more than 20,000 visitors each year, many of whom are visiting as part of various Arts and Sciences courses.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Museum is embarking on an ambitious crowdfunding project in March to raise funds to purchase and build a dinosaur in the lobby of Orton Hall. We will
be erecting a skeleton of the carnivorous dinosaur <i>
Cryolophosaurus</i>, that was found in Antarctica by David Elliot, now an emeritus faculty member of the School of Earth Sciences.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">March is
<i>Cryolophosaurus</i> Month! <a href="http://buckeyefunder.osu.edu/dinosaur" target="_blank">
http://buckeyefunder.osu.edu/<wbr>dinosaur</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We invite you to share this exciting project with faculty, students, and staff in your Department. This is a challenging project, but we hope that your
Department will share in the important mission of enhancing STEM outreach in Ohio. As we like to say, every 3<sup>rd</sup> grader is a paleontologist, many of whom grow up to become scientists of all kinds.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To contribute to this project online, visit
<a href="http://buckeyefunder.osu.edu/dinosaur" target="_blank">http://buckeyefunder.osu.edu/<wbr>dinosaur</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To learn more about the Orton Geological Museum visit
<a href="mailto:ortongeologicalmuseum@osu.edu" target="_blank">ortongeologicalmuseum@osu.edu</a>. Please stop by Orton Hall and visit the Museum, and feel free to contact me if you have any questions.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thank you very much.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cheers, Bill</span>
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