February 12, 2009 Issue
Biology Researcher Sean Carroll To Speak February 24 at ASU
Five More Speakers Remain in Darwin Bicentennial Series
Sean B. Carroll, a professor of molecular biology and genetics, will give a lecture titled Into the Jungle: The Epic Search for the Origins of Species and the Discoveries that Forged a Revolution as part of the Darwin Bicentennial Series at ASU.
Biology and genetics researcher, professor and author Sean B. Carroll will speak to the public on Tuesday, February 24, at 8:00 p.m. in Farthing Auditorium. His lecture is titled Into the Jungle: The Epic Search for the Origins of Species and the Discoveries that Forged a Revolution.
The talk is part of the Darwin Bicentennial Series, a yearlong celebration of Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution held to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. Sponsored by the University Forum Committee at Appalachian State University, the series features free public lectures, films and other events.
Carroll is a professor of molecular biology, genetics and medical genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Researcher. He is the author of several popular books on evolution, including the upcoming Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Specie. Carroll will be the host of a PBS NOVA special about Darwin and evolution to be shown nationally this spring. Carroll is also the speaker for this year’s Morgan Distinguished Lecture Series in the Sciences.
Carroll’s research has centered on the genes that control animal body patterns and play major roles in the evolution of animal diversity. Major discoveries from his laboratory have been featured in TIME, U.S. News & World Report, The New York Times, Discover and Natural History.
Sean is the author of The Making of the Fittest (2006) and of Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo (2005). He is also the author or co-author of more than 100 scientific papers.
Sean is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Shaw Scientist Award of the Milwaukee Foundation and numerous honorary lectureships. Sean was named one of America’s most promising leaders under 40 by TIME Magazine in 1994.
The February 24 lecture is free and open to the public. For more info, call 828-262-7660 or click to www.UniversityForum.appstate.edu.
Want To Go?
Date: Tuesday, February 24
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Location: Farthing Auditorium, ASU
Cost: Free
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed Film Screening Sunday
The Evolution Film Series is a free informational film series held as part of the Darwin Bicentennial Celebration at ASU. The next film in the series is Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, showing Sunday, February 15, at 7:00 p.m. in the Greenbriar Theater of the Plemmons Student Union.
In the film, Ben Stein blows the whistle on “Big Science” and its suppression of ideas that challenge Darwinian theories of evolution. Is it a crime to believe in Intelligent Design? ASU computer science professor James Wilkes will introduce the film.
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