Speakers and Lectures

Biology Prof. Andy McCollum will present "A Primer on Evolution for Humanists and Artists." In honor of Charles Darwin's upcoming 200th Birthday and the 150th Anniversary of the publication of his classic work On the Origin of Species, Dr. McCollum will provide a brief overview of the fundamentals of evolution by natural selection. He will do his best to leave some time for questions and discussion.

Internet editor and librarian Alan Cordle will lecture on issues of internet privacy and security and his experiences editing Foetry.com. Mr. Cordle has worked as a reference librarian in public, university and community college libraries for over a decade. In 2004 he founded Foetry.com, the American Poetry Watchdog, and he has appeared on the covers of both the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Los Angeles Times, and he's been interviewed on Talk of the Nation and the CBC's As It Happens.