Biology

Join us for a dynamic conversation with guest speakers and community members about how art can reflect, engage, and resist apocalyptic ideas and futures.

Kaleidoscope: Multi Media Student Exhibit & Performance Night

“Empire of My Fireflies” by Ibiyinka Olufemi Alao, First-Place Winner of the United Nations International Art Competition and Nigeria’s Arts Ambassador to the United Nations and United States.

Ibiyinka Olufemi Alao, Nigeria’s art ambassador to the United Nations, visual artist, filmmaker, architect and author will lead a visual art (painting) workshop as part of the Art vs the Apocalypse event. Alao’s paintings center redemption, peace and love, and lately reflect a long-standing fascination with fireflies. Materials provided. Open to Middlebury College students.

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The BIO SAC and MBBC SAC are happy to host a board game night in Crossroads from 7-9pm on Tuesday, January 24th! Professors are welcome to join and please bring games!

African natural product and traditional medicine leads against HIV and SARS-CoV-2

Title: A distant mirror: What salamander learning can teach us about neural circuit evolution

Title: My journey from “Great lecturer, hard tests, impossible class” to “She actually seems like she cares about her students and their success in her class”

Piatã Marques, University of Buffalo

Fish and the city: understanding the effects of urbanization on the ecology and evolution of aquatic biota 

The expansion of cities worldwide is a major driver of local, regional, and global environmental changes. Despite that, urban areas are often overlooked in ecological and evolutionary studies. In this talk, I will show the mechanisms through which urbanization changes ecological and evolutionary processes in aquatic biota. Such information is fundamental to advance classic theories and for promoting conservation in cities.

Biotic and Abiotic Signals of the Anthropocene in the Geologic Record
Dr. M. Allison Stegner, Research Scientist, Stanford University