Upcoming Events
Janet Browne
November 13, 2009, Time: 2 - 3 p.m
Location: Life Sciences Ewing, Room 104
...Since then, Browne has specialized in reassessing Charles Darwin’s work, starting when she was associate editor on the University of Cambridge Library project designed to collect, edit and publish the correspondence of Charles Darwin More....
Carol Ann Bassett
Nov. 30, 2009, 7 pm
Location: Pima Auditorium, Memorial Union, Tempe campus.
Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
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The Darwin 150 Project is a public science education initiative focused on celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” and bringing the important insights of Darwin and science in general to mainstream adults.
Darwinfest:
Bold ideas change worlds
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”–Charles Darwin
Arizona State University celebrates Darwin‘s 200th birthday and commemorates the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species with Darwinfest – a creative scientific enterprise.
Join us for a multifaceted set of events, contests, lectures, artistic performances, educational workshops, tea parties, and even a look-alike contest.
Darwinfest celebrates how bold ideas and great scientific minds bring change to our understanding of biodiversity, the planet, the universe and ourselves.
Take part in a worldwide celebration of audacious thinking that still reverberates and fuels our medical discoveries, scientific accomplishments, arts and culture.
- Why do Darwin‘s ideas still matter?
- Who was he as a person?
- How have concepts such as evolution attracted controversy and stimulated cutting-edge discovery, such as personalized medicine?
- Could you be the next Darwin?
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