Democratic and Inclusive Committee MeetingsTuesday, April 16, 2024, 12 - 1pmMuch of our work in higher education is spent in committee meetings, and unfortunately oftentimes the engagement and productivity of these meetings is lacking. Join us for this seminar, where we will highlight, demonstrate, and discuss several strategies for planning both democratic and inclusive meetings, where everyone is engaged and able to participate.
SUMMER 2024 GRADUATES — Deadline to Apply to GraduateThursday, May 23, 2024, 12am - 11:59pmGS25 Deadline for Application for Graduation Form (students applying to graduate for the first time) OR Reapplication for Graduation (students who have applied to graduate for a previous term).
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Felicia Keesing- Keynote and Reception Title- Biodiversity and infectious diseases: principles for predictionMonday, June 3, 2024, 5 - 7pmFelicia Keesing is a biologist who studies the consequences of interactions among species, particularly as biodiversity declines. Her recent work focuses on how biodiversity influences the probability that humans and other animals will be exposed to infectious diseases. She has worked in Kenya since 1995 studying how the disappearance of elephants, giraffes, and other large mammals influences the way African savannas function. Keesing has published more than 100 papers, with grant support from the National Geographic Society, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. Her work has been covered by the New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR, and The Guardian, among other media outlets. In 2020, she and her work were featured in the BBC’s Extinction, with Sir David Attenborough. Keesing served on the steering committee for the Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education conferences, and was the director of a project on science literacy funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 2000, she received a United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Clinton. She is an elected Fellow of both the Ecological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2022, she received the International Cosmos Prize, and in 2023, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.