Center for Advanced Studies Announces November Lecture Series
October 18, 2005
Champaign - A variety of topics will be explored in a series of November lectures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; among them a journalist’s take on America at home and abroad, Homer’s lessons for the modern military, diploma mills, naturalists and their letters, and what bees can teach us about brains and behavior.
The lectures are sponsored by the university’s Center for Advanced Study, and three are part of the its MillerComm series. All of the talks are free and open to the public.
The MillerComm lecture series began in 1973 and is supported with funds from the George A. Miller Endowment and several co-sponsoring campus units. The lectures provide a forum for discourse on topics spanning the university’s many disciplines.
The first of the CAS lectures will come on Nov. 2, with the inaugural Chancellor’s CAS Special Lecture, “Overachievers: What Honey Bees Teach Us About Genes, Brain and Social Behavior,” presented by Gene E. Robinson, professor of entomology at Illinois. He also is a professor in the Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois and director of the Neuroscience Program.
Robinson will draw on the latest studies from several fields to explore how honey bees, with brains the size of a grass seed, can live together in societies that rival those of humans in complexity and internal cohesion. His lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana.
For additional information, a complete series schedule, or to confirm details prior to a lecture, check the events section of the CAS Web site: http://www.cas.uiuc.edu/
source: News Bureau, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: http://www.news.uiuc.edu/