The Rest of the Animals - Alumni Weekend
Reacquaint yourself with our invertebrate brethren. In his teaching lab full of strange and wonderful creatures, biologist Michael LaBarbera will talk about the revolution in our understanding of invertebrate animals and illustrate with living animals...
How fish learned to walk
While all life originally arose in the seas, about 370 million years ago one group of fish evolved new anatomical features that enabled them to crawl out of the ocean and take up residence on dry land. This invasion of land by fish was one of the majo...
Chivalry and the Machine - Alumni Weekend
Chivalry and the Machine: What do knights have to do with the origins of the railroad? Historian Rachel Fulton will offer a discussion of the way in which nineteenth-century Europeans, particularly in England, developed a mythology of industrial produ...