Tuesday, January 20, 2004

WRITER: Phil Williams, 706/542-8501, phil@franklin.uga.edu
SOURCE FOR COLEY LECTURE: Kristen Smith, 706/542-066, kmsmith@uga.edu

NOTED SCIENTIST JOAN ROUGHGARDEN TO DELIVER LECTURES ON UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA CAMPUS

ATHENS, Ga. – Dr. Joan Roughgarden, an evolutionary ecologist from Stanford University, will deliver the annual Andrea Carson Coley Lecture on the University of Georgia campus on Monday, Feb. 2. Roughgarden will also be the opening speaker of the Winter Evolutionary Biology Symposium on campus on Sunday, Feb. 1.

Both events are free and open to the public.

Roughgarden is the author of Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People. The book, according to its publisher, is “a celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans . . . She leads the reader through a fascinating discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals, including primates. [The book] explains how this diversity develops from the action of genes and hormones and how people come to differ from each other in all aspects of body and behavior.”

Her Coley lecture will be entitled, “Evolution’s Rainbow.”

The Andrea Carson Coley Lecture was endowed by a donation by Andrew and Kathy Coley in memory of their daughter (1972-1993), who was a certificate candidate in Women’s Studies at UGA. This year’s lecture on Feb. 2 will be at 12:15 p.m. in the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium in the Georgia Museum of Art on campus. A reception honoring the Coley family will precede the lecture at 11:30 a.m.

For more information on the lecture, contact Kristen Smith at 542-0066.

The annual Evolutionary Biology Symposium at UGA brings some of the country’s top experts to make presentations on the cutting edge of science. Roughgarden is the first of three speakers in this year’s series.

Her lecture on Feb. 1 in this series will be in the UGA Ecology Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. The title of her presentation is: “Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality: Conceptual Implications for Biology.”

Other speakers in the Winter Evolutionary Biology Symposium include:

*Linda Partridge, University College, London. Sunday, Feb. 8, at 7:30 p.m. Ecology Auditorium: “Diet, Death and Demography in Drosophila,” with reception following in entrance hall outside auditorium; and Monday, Feb. 9, at 11:15 in C-127 Life Sciences Building: “Mechanisms of Aging: Public or Private?”

*Martin Wikelski, Princeton. Sunday, Feb.15, at 7:30 p.m., Ecology Auditorium: “New Approaches to Old Questions: Why Biology Needs Field Ecology.” Reception following in entrance hall outside auditorium; and Monday, Feb. 16, at 11:15 in C-127 Life Sciences Building; “Understanding Organismal.”