Upcoming Events:
Thursday, October 9, 2008 in the McCook library.
Lunch with students who did research over the summer, and Professor Beth Notar who is just back from Japan and China during her sabbatical leave last year. We’ll introduce ourselves to one another and discuss what else to do together this year.
Thursday, November 13, 2008 in the McCook Library.
Lunch with Professor Jane Nadel-Klein who will be talking about her project on gardens and gardening and her upcoming sabbatical leave in the spring semester.
Please RSVP to Jennifer.fichera@trincoll.edu
Past Events:
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 5 pm in Washington Room - "Retiring Race (as a Genetic Construct): Implications for Biology and Society"
Alan Goodman, professor of biological anthropology at Hampshire College, teaches and writes on the health and nutritional consequences of political-economic processes including poverty, inequality and racism. He has written extensively on the idea of race in science and recently helped create a traveling museum exhibit and website on this topic (understandingrace.org) Goodman received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Massachusetts and was a postdoctoral fellow in International Nutrition at University of Connecticut and a research fellow in stress physiology at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. He is the former dean of Natural Sciences at Hampshire College and the former President of the American Anthropological Association.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:00-1:15pm in McCook Library
Lunch with Professor James Trostle to discuss "Social Networks and Disease in Northern Coastal Equador".
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 12:00 - 1:15pm in McCook Library
Lunch with Professor Frederick Errington to discuss his research during his sabbatical last year.