SUNY New Paltz Spring Schedule, 2011
State of EvoS New Paltz: Part One and Part Two
– Research Presentations on NSF-funded EvoS Projects from New Paltz Students
– Presentations on the SEVERAL new courses being added to the New Paltz curriculum to serve the EvoS program
– A summary of the grant activities funded by the National Science Foundation
– The future of EvoS New Paltz
– And More!
March 7th: Part One, Part Two
AEPS – Inaugural meeting of the Applied Evolutionary Psychology Society – featuring NYU’s Jerome Wakefield, Nando Pelusi, Nick Armenti, and a rebuttal from Jonathan Raskin.
March 28th
Exploiting Evolution at the Molecular Level
Jeff Reinking, Ph.D., State University of New York at New Paltz, Department of Biology
5:30-6:30
LC 102
April 4th
SEEKING and PLAYING: Affective Infrastructures and the Evolutionary Function of Sport*
Leslie Heywood, Ph.D., State Univeristy of New York at Binghamton, Department of English
5:30-6:30
LC 102
April 11th
How Natural Selection Produced Humans- How Humans Produce Knowledge*
Paul Bingham, Ph.D., State Univeristy of New York at Stony Brook, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
5:30-6:30
LC 102
April 25th
Eels, and Naming Nature
James Prosek
Author of Eels An Exploration, From New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World’s Most Amazing and Mysterious Fish; Bird, Butterfly, Eel; and The Day My Mother Left.
5:30-6:30
LC 102
SUNY New Paltz Spring Schedule, 2010
Niles Eldredge, American Museum of Natural History, Paleontology
Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life
Marlene Zuk, Ph.D. University of California, Department of Biology
Sex and the Scala Naturae, Introductory Remarks of the 4th Annual NEEPS Conference
Alexi Savchenko, Ph.D. University of Toronto, Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Banting and Best Dept. of Medical Research
Molecular aspects of co-evolution of bacteria and their eukaryotic hosts-gentle diplomacy of trojan war tactics
Frances A. Champagne, Ph.D. Columbia University, Department of Psychology
Nurturing Nature: Epigentics and the Transmission of Behavior Across Generations
SUNY New Paltz Spring Schedule, 2009
Gordon Gallup, Department of Psychology, SUNY Albany
“The Evolutionary Biology of Physical Attraction”
David Schmitt, Department of Psychology, Bradley University and Director of the International Sexuality Description Project
“Darwin’s Legacy in the Behavioral Sciences: Human Mating Research in the 21st Century” (Darwin Day Speaker)
Warren Allmon, Department of Geology, Cornell University and Director of The Museum of the Earth
“What Did Darwin Do?”
David Livingstone Smith, Department of Philosophy, University of New England and Director of the New England Institute
“The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origin of War”
Justin Garcia, Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University
“Intimacy, Infidelity, and the Individual”
Maryanne Fisher, Department of Psychology, St. Mary’s University
“How Women Compete for Mates”
Alexei Savchenko, Department of Biology, University of Toronto
“Hooray! The Genome Project is Complete! What Happens Next?”
Ben Normark, Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts
“Phylogeny and Evolution of Unusual Genetic Systems in Armored Scale Insects”
Gordon Gallup, Department of Psychology, SUNY Albany
“The Evolutionary Biology of Physical Attraction”
David Schmitt, Department of Psychology, Bradley University and Director of the International Sexuality Description Project
“Darwin’s Legacy in the Behavioral Sciences: Human Mating Research in the 21st Century” (Darwin Day Speaker)
Warren Allmon, Department of Geology, Cornell University and Director of The Museum of the Earth
“What Did Darwin Do?”
Maryanne Fisher, Department of Psychology, St. Mary’s University
“How Women Compete for Mates”
Alexei Savchenko, Department of Biology, University of Toronto
“Hooray! The Genome Project is Complete! What Happens Next?”
Aaron Haselton, Department of Biology, SUNY New Paltz
“Diet, Sex, and Aging for Supermodels (supermodel organisms, that is)”
SUNY New Paltz Spring Schedule, 2008
Lionel Tiger, Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University
“The Evolution of Behavioral Sex Differences in Humans: A Public Discussion”
“What Would Darwin Say?”
Rebecca Burch, Department of Psychology, SUNY Oswego
“How Seminal Fluid has Evolved to Affect Female Psychology and Physiology”
John Long, Department of Biology, Vassar College
“Biomimetic Evolutionary Analysis: Using Robots to Test Adaptation Hypotheses”
Anne Clark, Department of Biology, Binghamton University
“The Social Lives and Sometimes Hard Times of American Crows (Corvus Brachyrhynchos)”
Eugene Heath, Department of Philosophy, SUNY New Paltz
“Social Evolution Before Darwin”
Susan Hughes, Department of Psychology, Albright College
“Sex Differences in Romantic Kissing”
Scott Barry Kaufman, Department of Psychology, Yale University
“A Tale of Two Minds: Implications for Intelligence, Reasoning, and Creativity”