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Darwin Festival
Department of Biology Schedule of
Events 13 - 17
February 2012 |
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Dedicated to one of our earliest supporters, Lynn Margulis (1938-2011) |
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MONDAY,
FEBRUARY 13, 2012 |
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8:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life” – BBC Warner |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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9:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “Becoming Us” – The Human Spark |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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10:00
a.m. |
VIDEO: “Deserts – Life in the Furnace” – The Human Planet |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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11:00 a.m. |
“USING SCIENCE TO HELP THE POOR: DIAGNOSTICS FOR THE
DEVELOPING WORLD” – Alynne MacLean, Science With a Mission, Sharon MA. Sponsored by the Department of Chemistry and Physics
and the Charles Albert Read Trust. |
Veterans Hall |
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12:30 p.m. |
VIDEO: “Jungles – Peoples of the Trees” – The Human Planet |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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1:30 p.m |
“EXPLORING THE MICROBIAL
DIVERSITY OF CHEESE” – Rachel Dutton, Bauer Fellow, Harvard FAS Center for
Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA. The Keville-DePalma Founders Lecture.
Dedicated to one of our greatest supporters, Lynn Margulis |
Veterans Hall |
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2:30 p.m. |
VIDEO: “Cave of Forgotten
Dreams” (90 minutes) |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14,
2012 Charles
Albert Read Science Lectures |
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8:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “State of the Ocean’s Animals” – Journey to Planet Earth |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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9:30 a.m. |
“RAPID EVOLUTIONARY
CHANGE IN FISHES FROM CHEMICALLY CONTAMINATED ESTUARIES” – Isaac Wirgin, Department of Environmental Medicine, New York
University School of Medicine, New York, New York. Sponsored by the Charles Albert Read Trust. |
Veterans Hall |
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11:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “Dogs Decoded” – NOVA |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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12:30 p.m. |
VIDEO: “Iceman Murder Mystery” – NOVA |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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2:00 p.m |
“POSITIVE YOUTH
DEVELOPMENT: ONTOGENY IN FOUR DIMENSIONS” – Richard M. Lerner, Institute for
Applied Research in Youth Development, Tufts University, Medford MA. Sponsored by the Charles Albert Read Trust. |
Veterans Hall |
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3:30 p.m |
VIDEO: “So Human, So Chimp” – The Human Spark |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15,
2012 |
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8:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “Lost in the Amazon” –
Secrets of the Dead |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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9:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “Dangerous Friends, Friendly
Enemies” – Intimate Strangers |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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10:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “Ghost in Your Genes” – NOVA |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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11:00 a.m. |
“ALIEN SPACE
INVADERS ATTACK MASSACHUSETTS – AN UPDATE ON MARINE INVASIVE SPECIES” – Ted Maney,
Department of Biology, Salem State University |
Veterans Hall |
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12:30 p.m. |
VIDEO: “What Darwin Never
Knew” – PBS |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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1:30 p.m |
VIDEO: "Rivers – Friend and Foe" –
The Human Planet |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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2:30 p.m |
“MEDICAL APARTHEID” – Harriet Washington, medical ethicist and author. Sponsored by the Campus Center. |
Veterans Hall |
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16,
2012 Charles
Albert Read Science Lectures |
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8:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “A Murder of Crows” – Nature |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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9:30 a.m. |
VIDEO: “Bones, Brawn
and Brains” – The Shape of Life |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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11:00 a.m. |
“CLIMATE CHANGE OR
GLOBAL WARMING – FACT OR FICTION? WHAT DO THE DATA SHOW?” – Barrett N. Rock, Institute for the
Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space and Department of Earth Sciences,
University of New Hampshire, Durham NH. Sponsored by the Department of Geography and the Charles Albert Read Trust. |
Veterans Hall |
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12:30 p.m. |
“YOU ARE WHAT YOUR
FATHER ATE: EPIGENETIC INFORMATION TRANSFER IN MAMMALS” – Oliver J. Rando, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular
Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, Worcester MA. Sponsored by the Charles Albert Read Trust. |
Veterans Hall |
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2:00 p.m |
“WHAT IS SCIENCE? A PHILOSOPHICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE” – William
Cornwell, Department of Philosophy, Salem State University, Salem MA. Sponsored by the Charles Albert Read Trust. |
Veterans Hall |
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3:30 p.m. |
VIDEO: “Masters of
the Arctic Ice” – National Geographic |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17,
2012 Biology
Alumni Day |
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8:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “The Animal House” – Nature |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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9:00 a.m. |
“THE EVOLUTION OF
ANIMAL SOCIETIES: INSIGHTS FROM SIMPLE FISH SOCIETIES” – Peter Buston, Department of Biology and Marine Program, Boston
University, Boston MA. Sponsored by the Biological Society. |
Veterans Hall |
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10:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “Japan’s Killer Quake” – NOVA |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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11:00 a.m. |
“WHY RHESUS MONKEYS SUCK: MOTHER'S
MILK AND INFANT DEVELOPMENT” – Katherine Hinde, Department of Human
Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA. Sponsored by the Charles
Albert Read Trust. |
Veterans Hall |
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12:30 p.m. |
VIDEO: “Brain Matters” – The Human Spark |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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1:30 p.m |
VIDEO: “Cities – Surviving the Urban Jungle” – The Human Planet |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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2:30 p.m |
VIDEO: “Penguins” (112 min) –
PBS |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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