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EEB 3894

Undergraduate Seminar at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Fall, 2008
1 credit
Thursday 2:30-5pm
Bamford conference room (Torrey Life Sciences)

Instructors: Tobias Landberg & Katherine Shaw

We will meet all the distinguished scientists on this semester's list of speakers. Student will be responsible for participating in each meeting. We will read at least one research article written by a different visiting scholar every week. After a half hour of discussion, we will meet the person behind the science and then hear them give an hour-long research seminar. This course is for undergraduate students interested in broadening their understanding of modern ecology and evolutionary biology by engaging in active discussion.


Fall 2008 Seminars

(4:00PM in BPB 130 unless otherwise noted)

August 28, 2008 Storrs Olson (Smithsonian Institution) Bermuda: Avatar of Pulsating Evolution and Bellwether of Global Inundation

September 11, 2008 Laura Galloway (University of Virginia) Maternal effects: Parental care in plants?

September 18, 2008 Dov Sax (Brown University) An Evolutionary Null Model of Species Invasions & The Future of Species Extinctions on Islands

September 25, 2008 Janet Browne (Harvard University) 4:00PM in Dodd Center Darwin Lecture Series.

October 2, 2008 Daniel C. Dennett (Tufts University) 4:00PM in Dodd Center Darwin Lecture Series.

October 9, 2008 Erika Edwards (Brown University) How the cactus came to be

October 15, 2008 George Levine (Rutgers University) 4:00PM in Dodd Center Darwin Lecture Series.

October 23, 2008 Gene Likens (Distinguished Research Professor (Visiting)) TBA

October 30, 2008 John Wiens (Stonybrook University) Integrating evolutionary biology and historical biogeography

November 5, 2008 Sandra Herbert (University of Maryland - Baltimore County) 4:00PM in Dodd Center Darwin Lecture Series.

November 13, 2008 Iolanda Ventura (University of Catholique de Louvain - Belgium) Book Culture and Experimental Science in Late Medieval Herbals

November 20, 2008 Julie Lockwood (Rutgers University) Propagule madness: definitions and null hypotheses in invasion ecology

December 3, 2008 Ian Tattersall (American Museum of Natural History) 4:00PM in Dodd Center Darwin Lecture Series.

EEB 3894 Semester Schedule

Date Seminar Speaker Presenter Discussion Paper
28 August Storrs Olson Tobias & Kat TBA
04 September Intro to Reading Scientific Articles Tobias & Kat TBA
11 September Laura Galloway TBA TBA
18 September Dov Sax TBA TBA
25 September
(Darwin Lecture Series*)
Janet Browne TBA TBA
02 October
(Darwin Lecture Series*)
Daniel C. Dennett TBA TBA
09 October Erika Edwards TBA TBA
16 October
(Darwin Lecture Series*)
(Wednesday Seminar**)
George Levine
Midterm Due
TBA TBA
23 October Gene Likens TBA TBA
30 October John Wiens TBA TBA
06 November
(Darwin Lecture Series*)
(Wednesday Seminar**)
Sandra Herbert TBA TBA
13 November Iolanda Ventura TBA TBA
20 November Julie Lockwood TBA TBA
27 November **Thanksgiving Recess** **No Class**
04 December
(Darwin Lecture Series*)
(Wednesday Seminar**)
Ian Tattersall
Final Due
TBA TBA


* Seminars in the Darwin Lecture Series are held in the Konover Auditorium of the Dodd Center (near the Homer Babbidge Library).
** The department seminar will be held on Wednesday of this week. We will discuss a paper on Thursday, and students are encouraged to attend the seminar on Wednesday.