Evolution: Education and Outreach

Even if you can’t make it to the Denver conference of the National Association of Biology Teachers, you can still take part by way of the WWW. Jory Weintraub, EE&O editorial board member and Science Education and Outreach Program Manager at NESCent, the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, reports the following.

Are you interested in evolution, but unable to attend this year’s National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) conference in Denver? Would you and your students like to learn more about how life evolves, adapts and flourishes in some of the most extreme environments on Earth, such as high altitude, in the deep-sea, or in caves? If so, you will be excited to learn that for the first time, the annual NABT Evolution Symposium will be accessible via live webcast on Friday, Nov. 13th from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm, MST. Teachers and students are encouraged to tune in to all or part of the webcast for an opportunity to hear internationally renowned researchers discuss their fascinating, cutting-edge work in “extreme” evolutionary biology. Classrooms all over the world will even be able to submit their questions online and have the speakers respond in real time!

For more information, including speaker names, talk titles and times, and the link to view the live webcast, please see http://www.nescent.org/NABT09Webcast.php or contact eog@nescent.org for more information.

For those EE&O readers who will be in Cambridge and who like crocheting or who want to learn how, there’s an even at the Fitzwilliam musuem that you might want to attend. Reposted from the Fitzwilliam’s web events listing:

Two sessions 11.00 – 13.00 & 14.00 – 16.00

Join the international crochet colony. The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef (created and developed by Margaret and Christine Wettheim, of the Institute for Figuring in Los Angeles) fuses science with mathematics and fine art. The reef is constantly updated by an ever expanding group of participants from around the world. The Fitzwilliam’s reef will be growing during Endless Forms, eventually becoming part of the UK reef.

Learn to crochet, or help others get started, find out about Darwin’s work on coral and discover what coral and hyperbolic space have in common. Wool and hooks provided or bring your own.

FREE with support from The Crafts Council.

Sat 4 July 2009 | 11:00 to 16:00
Free – no booking required

Patrizia Martellini called my attention to this event by way of a facebook post. Thanks Patrizia!