DARWIN'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Join the international celebration of
Charles Darwin's 200th birthday!
12-1 pm ~ UA Mall Stage:
- MUSIC by Charlie Darwin and His Natural Selections
- DARWIN LOOK-ALIKE CONTEST: $100 bookstore gift card prize
Come to campus as Charles Darwin and read a quote from him on the mall stage at 12:30 pm for a chance to win!
2:30-5 pm ~ Student Union South Ballroom:
- Free cake and coffee!
- MUSIC by Charlie Darwin and His Natural Selections
- Schedule of Events:
- 2:30 pm - Music by Charlie Darwin and His Natural Selections
- 2:45 pm - Simmons Buntin, poetry reading
- 3:05 pm - Wendy Burk & Eric Magrane, poetry reading
- 3:15 pm - Wendy Burk, poetry reading
- 3:25 pm - Tony Luebbermann, poety reading
- 3:45 pm - Elizabeth Bernays, poetry reading
- 4:00 pm - Megan Coe, poetry reading
- 4:30 pm - Matt Sullivan, Darwin look-alike awards
- SCIENCE ACTIVITIES AND DISPLAYS:
- The Tree of Life (in 3-D!)
- Evolve your own organisms in Spore™
- See the original books Darwin wrote
- Learn about heredity from fruit flies
- What are the Galapagos Islands?
- What do we learn from fossils?
- See inside a live bumble bee colony
- Watch earthworms detect sounds through the soil
- Why are there so many species of beetles?
- Watch single-celled organisms through a microscope
- How does evolution, adaptation, and diversification work in biology?
- Plant evolutiona and how Darwin studied vines
- Browse books on Darwin and his research
- and More!
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”