Colloquium Series - Archive | Other Series - Archive Spring 2000 CHPS Colloquium Schedule
CHPS 25th Anniversary Celebration
Miniseries: HPS 1975-2000, A Retrospective
February 24
"Science Studies 1975-2000: The Rise and Fall of Social Constructionism"
"Science and Technology Studies at the NSF"
OTHER COLLOQUIA
"Evolving an Evolutionary View of Human Quality"
"The Hearts of Our Children and the Obligations of our Nation"
JONATHAN KOZOL
Both colloquia are joint with the "Diversity and Community in American Life Colloquium Series"; cosponsored by the College of Education and EDPL Center for Education Policy and Leadership; the Offices of the President, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, the Provost, Undergraduate Studies, and University Advancement; the Deans of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Education, Library and Information Services, Life Sciences, Continued and Extended Education, and the Robert H. Smith School of Business; the Departments of African American Studies, Counseling and Personal Services, Curriculum and Instruction, and Special Education; Phi Delta Kappa, University Honors, Center for Teaching Excellence, Maryland Commission for Celebration 2000, and SEE events
"Scientists, Anti-Communism, and Atomic Espionage:
"Modeling Nature: Inverse Problems from AIDS to Venus."
Reception follows in 1412 Physics Lecture Hall Joint with Distinguished Scholar -Teacher Lecture Series
"A Honeymoon Spent Caked in Mud: George Gaylord Simpson's 1938 Expedition to Venezuela"
"Beautiful Contrivance : Science, Religion and Language in
Darwin's Fertilization of Orchids"
"Bioagents: From Autonomy to Insect Intelligence"
"Learning to Apply Theories: Case Studies from the Chemical Sciences"
"Recent Neural Models of Consciousness: What Do They Explain, and How?"
"The Role of Fossils in Phylogeny Reconstruction, or Why Is It So Difficult to Integrate Paleontological and Neontological Evolutionary Biology?"
"Chance and Evolution"
"The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal"
"Selection, Drift, or What? Evolution of the Scarlet Tiger Moth, P.dominula, 1947-2000"
The CHPS Colloquium Series is cosponsored by CHPS, the College of Arts and Humanities, the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, and the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park. See also:
* Quantum Information and Quantum Computing Lecture Series
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