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Darwin Festival
Department of Biology Schedule of
Events 11 - 15
February 2013 |
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MONDAY,
FEBRUARY 11, 2013 |
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8:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “Darwin’s Secret Notebooks” - National Geographic. |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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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 |
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10:00
a.m. |
VIDEO: “To the Ends of the
Earth” - Frozen Planet. |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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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 |
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12:30 p.m. |
VIDEO: “What Makes Us Human?”
- NOVA scienceNOW. |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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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 |
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2:30 p.m. |
VIDEO: “Silence of the
Bees” (110 min) - Nature. |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12,
2013 - Charles Darwin’s Birthday |
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8:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “Revealing the Origins of Life” – NOVA scienceNOW - Where Did We Come From? |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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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 |
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11:00 a.m. |
VIDEO:
“Cracking Your Genetic Code” - NOVA. |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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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 |
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2:00 p.m |
VIDEO: “Mind Over Money” -
NOVA. |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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3:15 p.m |
VIDEO: “Incredible Journey
of the Butterflies” - NOVA. |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13,
2013 Charles Albert Read Science Lectures |
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8:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “Ultimate Mars
Challenge” - NOVA. |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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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 |
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10:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “What Females Want”
- Nature. |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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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 |
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12:30 p.m. |
VIDEO: “The Last Frontier”
- Frozen Planet. |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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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 |
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2:30 p.m |
VIDEO: “Blue Gold: World Water Wars” (90 min) - PBS |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14,
2013 Charles
Albert Read Science Lectures |
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8:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “Ice Age Death Trap”
- NOVA. |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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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 |
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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 |
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12:30 p.m. |
VIDEO: “Can I Eat That?” - NOVA scienceNOW. |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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2:00 p.m |
VIDEO: “And What Males Will
Do” - Nature. |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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3:15 p.m. |
VIDEO: “A Sense of Wonder”
- Bullfrog Films. |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15,
2013 - Biology Alumni Day |
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8:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “Animal Odd Couples”
- Nature. |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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9:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “Lice and Human
Evolution” - NOVA scienceNOW - Where Did We Come From? |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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10:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “On Thin Ice” -
Frozen Planet. |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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11:00 a.m. |
“ACOUSTICS: BEYOND WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE” - Seth
Horowitz, President, The Engine Institute, Warwick, RI. |
Veterans Hall |
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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 |
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1:30 p.m |
VIDEO: “Hurricane Katrina:
The Storm That Drowned a City” - NOVA. |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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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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Student Government Association through the Biological Society, the Keville-DePalma Darwin Festival Endowment Fund,
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