What’s New in Science
3/22/2012 - Understanding Evolution Through Genomes
Speaker: Randal Voss (Department of Biology)
Date: March 22, 2012 at 7:00 pm Seating is Limited. Reservations required.
Location: Davis Marksbury Building
Visit http://www.as.uky.edu/new-in-science for more information.
The annual Darwin Lecture Series will feature Eugenie C. Scott, who will present a lecture titled "Darwin: Demon or Revolutionary?" Presented by the Kentucky Section of the American Institute for Professional Geologists, the lecture will be presented at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, at Singletary Center for the Arts Recital Hall.
A talk by Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Professor of Media Studies, Ponoma College and Director of Scholarly Communication, Modern Language Association. What if the academic monograph is a dying form? If scholarly communication is to have a future, it's clear that it lies online, and yet the most significant obstacles to such a transformation are not technological, but instead social and institutional. How must the academy and the scholars that comprise it change their ways of thinking in order for digital scholarly publishing to become a viable alternative to the university press book? This talk will explore some of those changes and their implications for our lives as scholars and our work within universities.
WHO: Richard Sayre, Ph.D.
WHAT: Biology Seminar - “Molecular Optimization of Biofuel Production from Microalgae”
WHERE: Thomas Hunt Morgan Building Room 116
WHEN: 4:00pm -5:00pm
WHO: Bong-Kiun Kaang, Ph.D.
WHAT: Biology Seminar - "Synaptic Plasticity, Memory, and Pain"
WHERE: Thomas Hunt Morgan Building Room 116
WHEN: 4:00p.m. - 5:00p.m.
WHO: Jared Strasburg, Ph.D., Department of Biology, Indiana University
WHAT: “Genomic Patters of Hybridization and Adaption in Annual Sunflowers”
WHERE: Thomas Hunt Morgan Building Room 107
WHEN: 3:00p.m. – 4:00p.m.
WHO: Megan Porter, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland
WHAT: “The Evolution of Vision in Mantis Shrimp: A Multifaceted Approach
WHERE: Thomas Hunt Morgan Building Room 116
WHEN: 4:00p.m. – 5:00p.m.
Faculty Host: Vincent Cassone
Abigail Keam, A&S alumna and award-winning author will be part of other authors and beekeeping experts giving short presentation. She will be giving a talk on what beekeeping means to her and also her award winning mystery series. Free and open to the public.
Location:
Mary Wood Memorial Library
1530 S Green St
Glasgow, KY 42141
(270) 651 2924
9:0a.m. - 2:00p.m.
Friday, January 27th, 2012
More about Abigail Keam:
Born and bred in Kentucky, Abigail graduated with Distinction from the University of Kentucky with a degree in Middle Eastern Civilization. She then went into private business and kept bees as a hobby.
Retiring in 1999 after a life-threatening asthma attack, Abigail became a full-time beekeeper, launching Abigail's, making honey/beeswax-based natural products. She sells at the Lexington Farmers' Market, which was voted 15th in the nation.
Ms. Keam has won sixteen honey awards at the Kentucky State Fair and was the first recipient of the Barbara Horn Award, given to those scoring a perfect 100 for a beekeeping-related entry at the Kentucky State Fair. In 2004, Ms. Keam traveled to South Africa to study beekeeping in Africa.
Miss Abigail is a member of the Bluegrass Beekeepers Association, the Kentucky State Beekeepers Association, the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen, and the National Society of Arts and Letters. She is a past board member of the Lexington Farmers' Market and Women in Agriculture boards. Also past president of the Friends of the Lexington Farmers' Market, Lexington Rape Crisis Center, and the Lexington Art League.
Biology senior Taylor Lloyd, of Union, Ky., has been named one of this year's 26 Astronaut Scholars and has received a $10,000 scholarship she will put toward her studies. While at UK, the agricultural biotechnology and biology senior has been active in research related to the germination of seeds.
What is Ann Morris' secret weapon in studying the genetic disorders that disrupt the human eye? A small, freshwater vertebrate called the zebrafish. Its innate ability to regenerate tissues within its retina following injury makes it a valuable tool for understanding the ocular disease that compromise the vision of thousands of people each year.
