Upcoming Events
Dreaming Darwin
February 4-6
Nelson Fine Arts Center, Studio 133
Tickets: $7, (480) 965-6447
February 12, 2010: Darwin turns 201
The 201st anniversary of Charles Darwin´s birth is February 12, 2010. This year at noon, ASU's School of Life Sciences, The School of Theater and Film and the Natural History Collections will sponsor a birthday tea, accompanied by a short reading by theater cast of “Dreaming Darwin” a “fantasy on the theme of Darwin.” Free and open to the public, the gathering point will be in the alcove on the first floor of Life Sciences A-wing (adjacent to Palm Walk), where the natural history collections are displayed. Light refreshments will be served (tea and cookies).
The Darwin 150 Project is a public science education initiative focused on celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” and bringing the important insights of Darwin and science in general to mainstream adults.
Darwinfest:
Bold ideas change worlds
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”–Charles Darwin
Arizona State University celebrates Darwin‘s 200th birthday and commemorates the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species with Darwinfest – a creative scientific enterprise.
Join us for a multifaceted set of events, contests, lectures, artistic performances, educational workshops, tea parties, and even a look-alike contest.
Darwinfest celebrates how bold ideas and great scientific minds bring change to our understanding of biodiversity, the planet, the universe and ourselves.
Take part in a worldwide celebration of audacious thinking that still reverberates and fuels our medical discoveries, scientific accomplishments, arts and culture.
- Why do Darwin‘s ideas still matter?
- Who was he as a person?
- How have concepts such as evolution attracted controversy and stimulated cutting-edge discovery, such as personalized medicine?
- Could you be the next Darwin?
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