Darwin Festival 2013: Salem State University Department of Biology: Schedule of Events

 

 

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2013

 

8:00 a.m.

VIDEO: “Darwin’s Secret Notebooks” - National Geographic.

Slater Lecture Hall

9:00 a.m.

“HOW RACE BECOMES BIOLOGY: GENES, ENVIRONMENT, AND

HEALTH” - Clarence Gravlee, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville. 

Co-sponsored by the Campus Center.

Veterans Hall

10:00 a.m.

VIDEO: “To the Ends of the Earth” - Frozen Planet.

Slater Lecture Hall

11:00 a.m.

“GENES INFLUENCE BEHAVIOR, BUT IT’S NOT SO SIMPLE” - Steven Hyman, Director, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge MA.

Sponsored by the Salem State Chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Veterans Hall

12:30 p.m.

VIDEO: “What Makes Us Human?” - NOVA scienceNOW.

Slater Lecture Hall

1:30 p.m.

“A SUSTAINABLE WORKFORCE = A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY” -

Adrian Dahlin, Rising Green, Holyoke MA.

Sponsored by the Department of Chemistry & Physics and the

Charles Albert Read Trust.

Veterans Hall

2:30 p.m.

VIDEO: “Silence of the Bees” (110 min) - Nature.

Slater Lecture Hall

 

 

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2013 - Charles Darwin’s Birthday

 

8:00 a.m.

VIDEO: “Revealing the Origins of Life” – NOVA scienceNOW - Where Did We Come From?

Slater Lecture Hall

9:30 a.m.

“SEX DIFFERENCES IN CHIMPANZEE BEHAVIOR” - Zarin Machanda, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA.

The Keville-DePalma Founders Lecture

Veterans Hall

11:00 a.m.

VIDEO: Cracking Your Genetic Code” - NOVA.

Slater Lecture Hall

12:30 p.m.

THE GEOMETRIC CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH THE

EVOLUTION OF ALGAL CELL WALLS: THE ROAD TO LAND

PLANTS AND COMPLEX MULTICELLULAR LIFE” - Larry Lewis,

Department of Biology, Salem State University, Salem MA.

Sponsored by the Biological Society.

Veterans Hall

2:00 p.m.

VIDEO: “Mind Over Money” - NOVA.

Slater Lecture Hall

3:15 p.m.

VIDEO: “Incredible Journey of the Butterflies” - NOVA.

Slater Lecture Hall

 

 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Charles Albert Read Science Lectures

 

8:00 a.m.

VIDEO: “Ultimate Mars Challenge” - NOVA.

Slater Lecture Hall

9:00 a.m.

“THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF NITROGEN” - Robinson W. Fulweiler,

Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston MA.

Sponsored by the Charles Albert Read Trust.

Veterans Hall

10:00 a.m.

VIDEO: “What Females Want” - Nature.

Slater Lecture Hall

11:00 a.m.

“EFFECT OF WINTER CLIMATE CHANGE ON NORTHERN

HARDWOOD FORESTS” - Pamela Templer, Department of Biology,

Boston University, Boston MA.

Sponsored by the Charles Albert Read Trust.

Veterans Hall

12:30 p.m.

VIDEO: “The Last Frontier” - Frozen Planet.

Slater Lecture Hall

1:30 p.m.

“TINY FOSSILS TELL TIME ACROSS THE PACIFIC” - Nicholas Venti,

University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Sponsored by the Department of Geological Sciences and the

Charles Albert Read Trust

Veterans Hall

2:30 p.m.

VIDEO:  “Blue Gold: World Water Wars”  (90 min) - PBS

Slater Lecture Hall

 

 

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Charles Albert Read Science Lectures

 

8:00 a.m.

VIDEO: “Ice Age Death Trap” - NOVA.

Slater Lecture Hall

9:30 a.m.

“THE BENEFIT OF BUDDIES: AN INSECT PERSPECTIVE ON COOPERATION AND SOCIAL LIVING” - Lynn Fletcher, Department of Biology, Salem State University, Salem MA.

Sponsored by the Charles Albert Read Trust.

Veterans Hall

11:00 a.m.

“DOWN TO THE LAST DROP: CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER

RESOURCES IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST” - Christopher Williams, Department of Geography, Clark University, Worcester MA. 

Sponsored by the Department of Geography and the Charles Albert Read Trust.

Veterans Hall

12:30 p.m.

VIDEO: “Can I Eat That?” - NOVA scienceNOW.

Slater Lecture Hall

2:00 p.m.

VIDEO: “And What Males Will Do” - Nature.

Slater Lecture Hall

3:15 p.m.

VIDEO: “A Sense of Wonder” - Bullfrog Films.

Slater Lecture Hall

 

 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2013 - Biology Alumni Day

 

8:00 a.m.

VIDEO: “Animal Odd Couples” - Nature.

Slater Lecture Hall

9:00 a.m.

VIDEO: “Lice and Human Evolution” - NOVA scienceNOW - Where

Did We Come From?

Slater Lecture Hall

10:00 a.m.

VIDEO: “On Thin Ice” - Frozen Planet.

Slater Lecture Hall

11:00 a.m.

“ACOUSTICS: BEYOND WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE” - Seth Horowitz,

President, The Engine Institute, Warwick, RI.

Veterans Hall

12:30 p.m.

“HOW SLOW CAN LIFE GO? LESSONS FROM THE SUBSEAFLOOR” - Steven D'Hondt, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Kingston.

Veterans Hall

1:30 p.m.

VIDEO: “Hurricane Katrina: The Storm That Drowned a City” - NOVA.

Slater Lecture Hall

2:30 p.m.

“INTERNAL PARASITES OF NORTH ATLANTIC SHARKS” - Mae

Taylor SSU ‘07, Visiting Lecturer, Biology Department, Salem State

University.

Veterans Hall

 

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