Events

Dr. Deborah Keene We will cover the basics tenets of the theory of evolution and look at its perception in the public.

Please meet on the front steps of Gorgas Library (the steps facing Denny Chimes).

Isabella Powell and Jalen Cates will be hosting a Blount Mystery Dinner. This will be a fun filled night with dinner and a "clue-like" game. We will come up with the script for our staff/ actors to follow. The end-game is someone has mysteriously "killed" our CD, Lindsey Potter. The challenge for the residents is

Dr. Carla Atkinson Currently, the global rate of biodiversity decline is alarming and the consequential impacts to essential ecosystem functions is unknown. I provide a framework for linking biodiversity across scales, from phylogenetic diversity to functional diversity within ecosystems, to explore patterns of community assembly and biodiversity loss across communities and the impacts on ecosystem function.

Dr. Thomas Robinson The pop music charts are regularly derided as emblems of commercial homogeneity, when in fact they are weekly displays of astonishing harmonic diversity.  This lecture walks through ten decades of popular music, looking beneath the veneer of transient and superficial stylistic conventions to reveal the melodic, scalar, and harmonic-syntactical innovations in songs

Dr. Matthew Therrell Destructive flooding is common on the Mississippi River. Unfortunately instrumental records of this significant hazard are limited to the 20th century. New tree-ring records are shedding light on the timing, magnitude, and causes of of major flood events over the past 300 years.  

To celebrate this Halloween, RA Rachel and RA Camille will host a residence hall-wide costume contest as part of the floor wars competition. There will be a photo booth with David Walton taking pictures as well as an official judging panel. To fit with the fall theme, we will also have apple cider, cookies and