Darwin FestivalSM 2013


Salem State University

Department of Biology

Schedule of Events

11 - 15 February 2013

 

 

 

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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

 

Founded By:  Philip A. DePalma and Virginia F. Keville

 

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Veterans Hall is located on the 2nd floor of the Ellison Campus Center.

 

Dr. Schuyler G. Slater Lecture Hall (MH 444) is located on the 4th floor of the Frederick A. Meier Arts & Sciences Hall.

 

The Festival is open to the public. All events are free.

 

The location for all events is Salem State University's North Campus, 352 Lafayette St., Salem, Massachusetts, 01970. For directions, go to www.salemstate.edu or contact the Biology Department (978-542-6236).

 

Major funding for the DARWIN FESTIVALSM has been provided by the Salem State University Administration, the Charles Albert Read Trust Fund, the Student Government Association through the Biological Society, the Keville-DePalma Darwin Festival Endowment Fund, contributions from Hayden McNeil Publishers, McGraw Hill, Pearson Higher Education, Simbiotic Software, WH Freeman, and other individual contributions.

 

Darwin FestivalSM Committee: Susan M. Case (Coordinator), Juditha C. A. Burchsted, Ryan Fisher, Lynn Fletcher, Gary Heisermann, Paul Kelly, Sheila Schreiner, T. Nelson Scottgale, Alan M. Young. and Amanda Viecelli (President, Biological Society).

 

Founded by Philip A. DePalma and Virginia F. Keville