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Darwin Festival
Department
of Biology Schedule
of Events 8
- 12 February 2010 |
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Printer-Friendly Schedules: Lectures only Full Schedule
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2010 Charles Albert Read Science Lectures |
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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. |
“THE ORIGIN OF HUMAN MALARIA” – Stephen Rich, Department of Plant, Soil, and Insect Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA. Sponsored by the Charles Albert Read Trust |
Veterans Hall |
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10:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life” – BBC Warner |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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11:00 a.m. |
“RESOLVING RIDDLES, EXPLAINING ENIGMAS, AND PROBING PARADOXES IN EVOLUTION” - James Morris, Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham MA. Sponsored by the Charles Albert Read Trust and the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi |
Veterans Hall |
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12:30 p.m. |
VIDEO: “The Doomsday Plague” – History-Special |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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1:30 p.m |
"IMPROVING ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS: ANYTHING WE CAN DO NATURE DOES BETTER" - Troy Van Voorhis, Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 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: “Science of Sex Appeal” (90 minutes) – Discovery Channel |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2010 |
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8:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “The Great Melt” – Nature’s Most Amazing Events |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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9:30 a.m. |
“THE PUZZLE OF HOST-SPECIFIC ADAPTATION IN BROOD PARASITIC BIRDS” – Michael Sorenson, Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston MA. Sponsored by the Biological Society |
Veterans Hall |
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11:00 a.m. |
“DARWIN AND YOUR HEALTH” – Aaron Bernstein, Center For Health and the Global Environment and Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA |
Veterans Hall |
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12:30 p.m. |
VIDEO: “Survival Game”- The Shape of Life |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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2:00 p.m |
VIDEO: “An Inconvenient Truth” – (96 min) |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2010 |
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8:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “The Next Plague” – History - Special |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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9:00 a.m. |
“AN OMNIVOROUS SPIDER PARASITIZES A CLASSIC MUTUALISTIC SYMBIOSIS, OR WHAT I LEARNED BY SIMPLY COLLECTING THINGS IN THE TROPICS” – Eric J. Olson, Program in Sustainable International Development, Brandeis University, Waltham MA |
Veterans Hall |
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10:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “Evolution: The Grand Experiment” – AVC Films |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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11:00 a.m. |
“LIZARDS IN AN EVOLUTIONARY TREE: STUDYING THE EVOLUTION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY IN CARIBBEAN LIZARDS” – Jonathan Losos, Curator of Herpetology and Monique & Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA |
Veterans Hall |
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12:30 p.m. |
VIDEO: “Frogs: The Thin Green Line” - Nature |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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1:30 p.m |
VIDEO: “The Great Flood” – Nature’s Most Amazing Events |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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2:30 p.m |
VIDEO: “The Human Family Tree” (90 min) – National Geographic |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2010 Charles Albert Read Science Lectures |
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8:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “The Silk Spinners” – Life in the Undergrowth |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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9:30 a.m. |
“IT’S SELECTION-NOT TURTLES-ALL THE WAY DOWN” – John Donahoe, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA. Sponsored by the Department of Psychology and the Charles Albert Read Trust |
Veterans Hall |
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11:00 a.m. |
“PLANTS AS INDICATORS OF GLOBAL CHANGE: A REPORT FROM THE FRONTLINES” – J. Ronald Eastman, 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: “Ghost in Your Genes” – NOVA |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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2:00 p.m |
VIDEO: “Discovering Ardi” (90 min) – Discovery Channel |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2010 Biology Alumni Day –
Happy Birthday Mr. Darwin! |
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8:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: ““The Great Tide” – Nature’s Most Amazing Events |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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9:00 a.m. |
“RHYTHMS AND CATASTROPHES IN EARTH HISTORY” – Jessica H. Whiteside, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence RI. Sponsored by the Department of Geological Sciences and the Charles Albert Read Trust |
Veterans Hall |
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10:00 a.m. |
VIDEO: “State of the Planet’s Wildlife” – Journey to Planet Earth |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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11:00 a.m. |
“HOMININ ORIGINS: NEW AND OLD PERSPECTIVES ON BEING UPSTANDING” – David Pilbeam, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA |
Veterans Hall |
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12:30 p.m. |
“AN EVOLUTIONARY MASTERPIECE: RAPID ADAPTIVE COLORATION IN CEPHALOPODS” – Roger Hanlon, Senior Scientist, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole MA |
Veterans Hall |
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1:30 p.m |
VIDEO: “Silence of the Bees” – Nature |
Slater Lecture Hall |
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2:30 p.m |
“CATCHING FIRE: HOW COOKING MADE US HUMAN” – Richard W. Wrangham, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA. The Keville-DePalma
Founders Lecture |
Veterans Hall |
Founded By: Philip A. DePalma and Virginia F. Keville
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