[Bgsa] this week's seminar (note the unusual time!) and meeting with the speaker

[Carla Essenberg]

Hi Everyone,

Here is the official announcement from Kim Hammond about the seminar
this week and meeting with the speaker.  She asks people to RSVP to
her regarding meeting with the speaker.  If you've already RSVP-ed to
me, I'll pass your name on to her.

Cheers,

Carla

Here is Kim's message:

Hi everyone,
This week the colloquium seminar will not be held at 4pm, but instead
at 5:30 in the extension center.  This will be the annual John and
Betty Moore Science as a Way of Knowing seminar.   For those of you
who are relatively new, this has been a very regular event (although
we missed last year) in honor of our own John and Betty Moore and how
they spent their life engaged in learning.  John was an embryologist
who spent his early years at Columbia University, had a long career
engaged in science.  He was also a National Academy member who brought
the battle for maintaining the teaching of Evolution in our
Universities to the Academy.  He is partly responsible for keeping the
Academy focused on that issue.  John also was instrumental in causing
the National Academy to become engaged in K12 educational issues.

We have brought in many speakers with the rule that they have to have
a broad appeal and interest to most of the members of our campus at
all levels, as well as to the general public.

This year’s speaker is Dr. Timothy D. White (discoverer of ARDI)..
here is a link about him:

http://newsroom.ucr.edu/news_item.html?action=page&id=2343

Although his time is very limited, we have always tried to give the
graduate students as much time as possible with the SAAWOK speaker.
We have reserved the Moore room from 3:30 to 4:30 pm on Thursday and
Dr. White will be there to talk with whoever of you can come.   Please
RSVP to me (khammond at ucr.edu) so we can get a rough head count.  Also,
please join us after his talk at University Extension Center for a
reception.

Thank You,
Kim


On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Carla Essenberg
<cesse001 at student.ucr.edu> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Our seminar speaker this week is Tim D. White (not our chancellor),
> who studies human evolution and has made some important discoveries in
> that field recently.  If you're interested in that subject at all, he
> would be a great person to talk with.  So, instead of coffee half-hour
> this week, Kim Hammond has scheduled Dr. White to meet with graduate
> students from 3:30 to 4:30 (the seminar will be at 5:30 rather than
> the usual time) in the Moore Room.  I'll bring some snacks and we can
> have coffee and tea also if anyone wants it.  Please let me know if
> you might be interested in coming (just so we can have an idea how
> many people are going to come).
>
> I may have more information on Tim White to send later, but in the
> meantime, here is a link to his website:
>
> http://ib.berkeley.edu/research/interests/research_profile.php?person=245
>
> Also see the stuff Kim says about him below.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carla
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Kimberly Hammond <kimberly.hammond at ucr.edu>
> Date: Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:25 AM
> Subject: Tim D. White
> To: Carla Essenberg <cesse001 at student.ucr.edu>
>
>
> HI Carla,
> As you know this weeks seminar will be given by Tim White and will be
> the Science as a Way of Knowing Seminar AND will be at 5:30-7...
> rather than the normal time.
>
> Tim White is an alumni of UCR and has been the person who has recently
> been in the news for his discovery of ARDI (the potential missing
> link).   He was the researcher of a the year for Science Magazine.
>
> We want to give the EEOB a chance to meet with him this week so it
> seems like the best time would be from 3:30-4:30pm on Thursday since
> that is the normal time and there probably is less chance of overlaps.
>  Do you think you could advertise this to your flock????  I know it
> will be a group meeting but I think that may actually stimulate more
> discussion.
>
> Let me know if this works... I am scheduling the room right now.
>
> Thanks,
> Kim
> --
> Kimberly Hammond
> Associate Professor
> Department of Biology
> University of California Riverside
> Riverside, CA 92521
>
> 951-827-4767
>
>
>
> --
> Carla Essenberg
> PhD Candidate and EEOBGSA President
> Department of Biology
> University of California, Riverside
>



-- 
Carla Essenberg
PhD Candidate and EEOBGSA President
Department of Biology
University of California, Riverside