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LAGSES has launched a new speaker series whose purpose is to bring prominent scientists from around the country to interact with UA students and to discuss the important roles that science and technology can play in bringing about the realization of the ideals that Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez worked to achieve.
With this speaker series we will reach out to the university community and provide opportunities for students to meet some of today's influential scientists.
It is a pleasure to present Dr. Neo D. Martinez, Director of the Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology (PEaCE) Lab, as the next speaker in the Martin Luther King Jr. & Cesar E. Chavez Scholar Series. This talk will take place Tuesday March 25th, at **6pm in Keating 103**.
The talk will be followed by a social mixer with the speaker. Come enjoy stimulating conversations and pizza on the patio of the Graduate Diversity House at 1031 N Mountain Ave. (between 1st and 2nd St.) at 7:15, immediately following the talk. We invite and encourage everyone to come!
“Diversity in Ecology and Academia:
An interesting history with an uncertain future”
Studies of diversity belong to a central research program in ecology and evolution and have been mixed with studies of society at least since Darwin got his theory of evolution from Malthus' theories of human overpopulation. Other incarnations of this mixing include environmental biologists' use of a "mismeasure of man" (craniology) to prevent minorities and women from voting and land ownership. Such mixing is much less prevalent (although not absent) in current studies of diversity which at first held biodiversity to be good for ecological stability, then held it to be bad, and now starting to see it as good again. Meanwhile, professors that study environmental biology tend to be the least ethnically diverse group of biologists in US universities. This Martin Luther King Jr./Cesar E. Chavez seminar will focus on the scientific view of biodiversity and also the diversity of scientists that conduct such research with the aim of elucidating some of the issues concerned with enhancing ecological research as well as increasing the diversity of scientists that conduct such research.
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Thank you everyone who has attended prior events and helped make the MLK/CC Speaker Series such a huge success!
Timothy Melano received the 2007 Hispanic Science Achievement Student Award of Excellence. He was also featured in the following article.
LAGSES is a multicultural organization whose mission is to recruit and retain Latino/a graduate students at the University of Arizona. We provide academic and social activities for support and networking.
LAGSES members are committed to helping Latino/a students enter and graduate from UA graduate programs in engineering and science.
LAGSES has chapters at UC Berkeley, Stanford, and Georgia Tech. The Arizona chapter attended the first LAGSES national conference which was held in Emeryville, CA.
