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NESCent News

NESCent hits the road for Darwin Day 2012

The Darwin Day Roadshow is a way for scientists and educators to share their enthusiasm for evolutionary science with students, teachers and the general public across the United States each year, on the occasion of Charles Darwin’s birthday (February 12th). This year we received over 100 applications from 27 different states, and selected schools in Oregon, Washington, Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana, West Virginia and North Carolina. READ MORE>>

Bolstering evolution education in the Caribbean

More than half of 11th and 12th grade high school teachers in Belize feel unprepared to teach evolution, finds a recent survey. And yet, the Caribbean region is a hotspot for biodiversity, not to mention home to several textbook examples of evolution. Those were just some of the reasons why NESCent headed to the Caribbean this fall in the latest installment of the new “NESCent Ambassador program,” which helps US-based scientists connect with researchers worldwide. READ MORE>>

Upcoming Events

Combined Phylogenetic Analysis of Pan-Alcidae (Aves, Charadriiformes): the Contribution of Fossils to the Resolution of Avian Systematic Relationships and Divergence Estimation

1-Feb-2012 Seminar

NESCent Advisory Board

2-Feb-2012 ~ 3-Feb-2012 Meeting

Evoci toolkit: concept inventories to assess conceptual understanding of evolution

6-Feb-2012 ~ 9-Feb-2012 Meeting

Using Community Detection to Construct Social Networks

15-Feb-2012 Seminar

Large-scale demographic, network and behavioral trait analyses of sociality