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- Nov. 10: Preconception health fair set in Trabant
- Nov. 11: Science Cafe returns to Newark
- Nov. 11: Dan Rich to speak on the role of universities in a global economy
- Nov. 11: Annual Step-n-Stroll show set at The Bob
- Nov. 11: Pompeii revisited during past three centuries
- Nov. 12: 'Shakespeare First' to feature lecture by James Shapiro
- Nov. 13: Project MUSIC Day to host elementary students
- Nov. 13: Student-organized ONE event to focus on poverty, hunger, disease
- Nov. 13: DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman to give talk at UD
- Nov. 14: Blue Hens tailgate tent set for Navy game
- Nov. 16: New opening act for Maroon 5 concert announced
- Nov. 17: UD students plan rally to open Relay for Life season
- Nov. 18: College of Education and Public Policy to host first expo
- Nov. 18: National Superintendent of the Year to visit Delaware
- Nov. 19: UD plans Geospatial Research Day
- Nov. 19: Darwin Lecture considers the origins of art
- Nov. 20: Tarburton to speak at Friends of Agriculture Breakfast
- Sept. 30-Nov. 18: School of Nursing offers fall research lecture series
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- Oct. 11-Nov. 29: International Film Series offered Sundays at Trabant
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- Sept. 9-Dec. 2: 'Research on Women' fall lecture series announced
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8:11 a.m., June 9, 2009----The Association for Biology Laboratory Education will hold its 31st annual conference June 9-13 at the University of Delaware, with the event hosted by organization members from UD's Department of Biological Sciences.
More than 170 college faculty and laboratory professionals from throughout North America are expected to attend the conference, which serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas to improve the undergraduate biology laboratory experience.
The conference will feature major workshops, mini-workshops, excursions, poster presentations, demonstrations, exhibits and poster presentations.
A major workshop Wednesday will consider “Podcasts in Biology Laboratory Education” and will be presented by Paul Hyde, manager in IT-User Services at UD. Participants will use UD's Student Multimedia Design Center, located in the Morris Library, to develop podcast projects.
Also Wednesday, UD's Seung M. Hong and Gary Laverty will present a workshop on “Fundulus Melanophones: From Physiology to Cell Biology.” Hong is assistant professor and laboratory coordinator in the Department of Biological Sciences and Laverty is associate professor of biological sciences.
A major workshop Thursday will consider “The Nature of Science.” Presenter will be Joseph D. Maness of Southwestern Oklahoma State University. On Friday, Robert Ketcham, laboratory coordinator in UD's Department of Biological Sciences will offer a mini-workshop entitled “Natural Selection: A Simple Model of Selection in a Variable Environment.”
Robert Hodson, UD associate professor of biological sciences, is serving as the main host, assisted by Ketcham and Linda Dion, instructor of biological sciences, and other faculty and professional staff from the department.