Spring 2013
Spring 2013 seminars are held on Mondays at 5:00 PM in AA-G008.
The Evolutionary Studies seminar series presents a guest speaker on an evolution-related topic about every week. It’s a great way to learn about evolution directly from a wide variety of scientists, and an excellent opportunity to ask questions and engage in discussion with researchers as well as your peers. Seminars are open to everyone. Students are encouraged to enroll in BIOL 451/680S, a 2-credit course based on the seminar series.
January 28th, 2012:
Evolution as a General Theoretical Framework for Economics and Public Policy
David Sloan Wilson
SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology
Binghamton University
February 11th, 2013:
Accelerating Discovery: Distilling Natural Laws from Experimental Data, from physics to biology
Hod Lipson
Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Computing & Information Science
Cornell University
February 18th, 2013:
Post Relationship Grief: Using Evolution to Understand a Broken Heart
Craig Eric Morris
Ph.D Candidate in Anthropology
Binghamton University
February 25th, 2013:
The (un)changing nature of resource policies: Technological and institutional impediments to efficient hydrocarbon extraction
Robert Holahan
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Binghamton University
March 4th, 2013:
Empathy, Cruelty, and Religion: An Evolutionary-Cognitive Perspective
John Teehan
Professor of Religion
Hofstra University
March 11th, 2013:
Dental Paleoanthropology: Sinking our teeth into human evolution
Shara Bailey
Associate Professor of Anthropology
New York University
March 18th, 2013:
How Daphnia safely catch some rays: Molecular mechanisms of adaptation to UV radiation exposure.
Brooks Miner
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Cornell University
April 8th, 2013:
The rhizosphere as a model system for studying co-evolving interactions among species
Jenny Kao-Kniffin
Assistant Professor of Urban Weed Ecology
Cornell University
April 15th, 2013:
Age Matters for Evolutionary Mismatch.
Michael Rose
Professor & Director of NERE, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of California Irvine
April 22nd, 2013:
Restoring locally adapted eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica, to New York Harbor Estuary; how ‘local’ must they be?
Matthew P. Hare
Associate Professor in the Dept of Natural Resources
Cornell University
April 29th, 2013:
Politics in the Age of Biology
Dominic Johnson
For the 2012-2013 academic year, he is co-leading a project on evolution and human nature at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton.
Center of Theological Inquiry
