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EVENT NEWS / February 10, 2009

Boise State Student Group Celebrates Darwin's Birth with Lecture by James G. Coors on
Feb. 12

In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, James G. Coors, professor emeritus in the Department of Agronomy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will speak at 7 p.m. Feb. 12 in room 110 of the Education Building. Admission is free, and free parking will be available in the Brady Garage during the event.

The talk will be about Darwin’s concepts of natural selection, with lessons learned from artificial selection. Jim Coors received his doctorate in plant breeding and biometry at Cornell University. He has developed and released novel corn germplasm as part of a research program that involves studies of long-term selection and the domestication of corn.

Coors has served in a number of professional organizations, including the board of directors for the Crop Science Society of America — he served as president in 2005 — and the American Society of Agronomy. Coors enjoys talking about selection, both natural and artificial, and its role in evolutionary biology.

Boise State’s event is sponsored by the Secular Student Alliance, which is joining institutions around the globe in marking both Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of “The Origin of Species.” For more information, e-mail loweb1@gmail.com. 

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Media Contact: Julie Hahn, University Communications, (208) 426-5540, juliehahn@boisestate.edu

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Last reviewed on Tuesday, February 10, 2009