Futures Symposium Schedule
Hi all! I’m posting the schedule for the University Scholars Program (USP) “Futures” Symposium for all the world to see. The event will take place on Saturday, March 2nd, from 10:00am to 3:30pm. 9:30-10:00:...
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“Futures” Symposium Categories from Sam
On the previous blog post, folks submitted ideas for symposium presentation ideas in response to the email that Sam sent out over winter break. Sam compiled these replies and categorized them according to the...
dolphins up close
Hi Unis! I hope you’re all having a fantastic summer. My summer has been filled with beach, ocean, and plenty of dolphins – just the way I like it! I started my summer doing...
Wader woes
Waders can be a wonderful thing. To some, they’re key to a good day of hunting and fishing. For others, they complete an award-winning costume (meet your director, new Unis!). And for those of...
New York Times Contact
The contact I mentioned at the meeting that was interested in hearing more about our Two Cultures symposium was Cornelia Dean, Science Writer and former Science Editor of the New York Times. For a...
All this talk about choice makes me want to clobber certain blurb writers
Why Girls Sleep Around: The Evolutionary Case for Female Promiscuity In a study of mouse-like marsupials, “survival of babies with promiscuous mothers was almost three times as high as those in the monogamous group.”...
Possible symposium thoughts
I was thinking about how I could convert some of the work I’m already doing (i.e. working in a neuro lab looking to repurpose Alzheimer’s drugs for glaucoma) to something relevant to the Two...
The Brief History of a Box
Hello fellow Scholars, I’ve been meaning to post for sometime now from Moss Landing, CA, home to Phil’s Fish Market, more sea lions than people, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), where I...
Some pertinent websites
Here is the link to “Recycling is Garbage” by John Tierney, and here’s another story that pretty much states his views on sustainability (i.e., human ingenuity is one resource we won’t soon run out...
Greetings from the scrub
For the past six months I’ve been working as an avian ecology intern at a vibrant, wonderful biological station in (not so vibrant, wonderful) south-central Florida. In exactly one week I’ll be packing up...
