Lectures at Yale

Dori Sosensky dori.sosensky at snet.net
Tue Sep 27 20:44:28 EDT 2005


Hi,

Nancy Rosenbaum sent me this information and asked me to post it.

>>Professor Naomi Pierce, of Harvard University, will be visiting Yale on 
>>Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of this week, as a Tetelman Fellow. The 
>>Tetelman Fellowship is a very prestigious lectureship sponsored by 
>>Jonathan Edwards College.  Its aim is to bring famous scientists to Yale 
>>to give a public lecture and to participate in a number of other events 
>>with students and faculty.  It is quite wonderful that an 
>>ecologist/evolutionary biologist has been chosen this Fall, and I hope 
>>that as many of you as possible will show your support by attending her 
>>several lectures.  What follows is a short biographical sketch, and then 
>>a list of the three lectures that Naomi will be delivering later this 
>>week.  Please mark your calenders and plan to attend!
>>
>>Biographical Sketch:
>>
>>"With an undergraduate degree in Biology from Yale and a doctorate from 
>>Harvard, Naomi Pierce is an expert on the ecology and evolution of 
>>species interactions. Specifically, she studies relationships between 
>>ants and caterpillars of a large group of butterflies, the blues, coppers 
>>and hairstreaks. These range from exquisitely refined symbiosis - ant 
>>farmers that defend their caterpillar cows in exchange for a protein-rich 
>>"milk" - to pure exploitation - caterpillars that chemically fool ants 
>>into admitting them into the ant nest where the caterpillars feast on the 
>>ant juveniles.  Pierce was awarded a Macarthur Fellowship for her 
>>research, and has held positions at Griffith University in 
>>Australia,  Oxford University in the UK, and Princeton and Harvard 
>>Universities in the US. She is currently the Hessel Professor of Biology 
>>in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, and 
>>Curator of Lepidoptera in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. She lives in 
>>Cambridge, MA with husband Andrew Berry and their twin daughters."
>>
>>
>>(1) Tetelman Lecture, 5:00 PM, Wednesday, Sept. 28th, Davies Auditorium, 
>>Becton Engineering Center:
>>
>>"Ant-loving, meat-eating, cradle-robbing caterpillars: the evolution of 
>>blue butterflies"
>>
>>This is intended to be the big public lecture.
>>
>>
>>(2) Master's Tea, 4 PM, Thursday, Sept. 29, Jonathan Edwards College 
>>Master's House, 70 High Street:
>>
>>"Butterflies in the art and science of Vladimir Nabokov"
>>
>>
>>(3) EEB/Peabody lecture, 2:00 PM, Friday, Sept. 30th, Peabody Museum 
>>Auditorium:
>>
>>"Evolution and speciation of lycaenid butterflies"
>>
>>
>>Note that the last talk is sponsored by EEB and the Peabody.  It will be 
>>given in the Peabody Auditorium, followed by refreshments.


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