MIT - Biology Workshop

Post date: Jul 28, 2008 9:27:4 PM

September 10, 2008 at 2pm in the Whitehead Auditorium

Louise Mead from the National Center for Science Education (Oakland, CA) will be lecturing on:

"From Darwin to Dover and Beyond: The history of the creationism/intelligent design movement and current attacks on evolution education."

Louise Mead, PhD, has been both a high school science teacher and university lecturer. Her research interests include understanding the evolutionary processes that create and maintain biological diversity. Louise also has a long-standing interest in the nature of science and science as a way of knowing. As Education Project Director of the National Center for Science Education (Oakland, CA), she gives lectures on "Evolution: history, science, and nature" and "Teaching evolution in a climate of controversy."