FEBRUARY 12, 15 STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY CELEBRATES DARWIN'S 199TH BIRTHDAY!

February 12, Tuesday, Darwin Day Distinguished Lecturer

David Sloan Wilson, Professor at Binghamton University

Author of "Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives" and "Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society"

SAC Auditorium, 7:30 P.M. Arrive early to get a good seat!

More information about DARWIN DAY and other exciting events

February 15, Friday, Living World Lecture

Jeffrey Levinton, Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University

Title: "Pollution and Rapid Evolution: Answers Not in Genesis"

Earth and Space Sciences Lecture Theater 001, 7:30 P.M.

March 14, Friday, 7:30 P.M.

Earth and Space Sciences Lecture Theater 001

"Shellfish, East and West"

An evening devoted to bivalves! And what better bivalve to showcase than the mighty geoduck (pronounced gooeyduck)! We will first show the award-winning duckumentary "Three Feet Under," which introduces you to Jack, a Brooklynite migrant to the great northwest. He seeks the mighty geoduck, a bivalve whose giant size and edibility has inspired a quirky subculture of clammers, and controversy about conservation.See the trailer!

Then we will have a panel of prominent Long Islanders who are trying to restore our own devastated shellfish resources, including Carl LoBue of the Nature Conservancy, and Steve Tettlebach, Professor at Long Island University and Coordinator of the Suffolk County Scallop Restoration Program.

April 18, Friday, 7:30 P.M.

Charles Wang Center Auditorium (NOTE LOCATION!)

"SPECIAL EARTHSTOCK LECTURE "

STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY celebrates Earth Day with a Keynote Lecture

Hans-Peter Plag, University of Nevada

Sustainability: A Mosaic of Many Small Steps in the Right Direction

Preceded by a day of celebration of our planet and followed by a music concert. Be there!