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Academic Year 2009-2010

October 3, 2009 - Presidential Science Symposium

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Academic Year 2008-2009

OCTOBER 23, NOVEMBER 7 & NOVEMBER 14 -
A Public Colloquium on Faith, Reason and Evolution

October 23, 2008
Jon D. Levenson, Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies, Harvard Divinity School - "What is Genesis All About?"

November 7, 2008
Patrick H. Byrne, Professor of Philosophy, Boston College - "Why Do People Think Science and Faith are Incompatible?"

November 14, 2008
JEdward Humes, Journalist, Author - "Talk Radio Evolution: The War on Science and the Second Coming of Scopes"

Academic Year 2007-2008

April 1, 2008
Margaret {Peg} Riley, President, Massachusetts Academy of Sciences, Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst - "Applying ecological and evolutionary theory to meet the challenge of antibiotic resistance"