2008 Study Abroad
June 16 - July 9, 2008 | Harlaxton College and other sites in England
Professors M. Roos and M. Otten will teach two study abroad courses at Harlaxton College in England, exploring Darwin’s England in the process. Evolution: History and Processes and The Evolutionary Self. Professor Otten’s course, Evolution: History and Processes, explores the historical development of evolutionary thought and theory from classical times to the present; with emphasis on the Darwin-Wallace concept of natural selection and on the development of the modern synthesis. Professor Roos’s writing course, The Evolutionary Self, will use the study abroad experience as a means to examine the process of the evolving self. Planned field trips include the Sedgwick Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, the British Museum of Natural History in London and Darwin’s residence, Down House, where he composed On The Origin of Species and his other great works.

Fossil Lab
October 17, 2008 | Science & Allied Health Building
Fourth Grade students from Blue Ash Elementary School will study how fossils are formed and how they provide evidence about plants that lived long ago and the nature of the environment at that time.

Brown Bag Discussion
October 30, 2008 | Muntz Hall Room 111, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
‘Science, Evolution, and Creationism’ (2008), National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine On Raymond Walters College Library Reserve and available for downloading as a PDF file at http://www.nap.edu

Topics In Literature II
Winter Quarter, 2009
Professor M. Roos’s Winter Quarter 2009 Topics in Literature II course will focus on literary works of fiction that explore the topic of evolution in all its aspects—biological, cosmological, cultural, and personal. Works being considered for the course include Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time, Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, and Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End and 2001: A
Space Odyssey.

Darwin’s Birthday Celebration & Film Festival
February 12, 2009 | Muntz Hall Room 170, 1-4 p.m.
Birthday Cake and a selection of films on Darwin and his influence.

Evolutionary Timeline
Spring Quarter, 2009 | Outside Muntz Hall
Raymond Walters College students will erect a series of signs representing a timeline of the history of life on Earth. Each sign will include the relevant time frame and a description of the important events occurring in that time frame. The timeline will be scaled to show the position of each event relative to the origin of the Earth and to each other.

Darwin Art Exhibition
November, 2009 | Muntz Hall Library
The Raymond Walters College Library will host a National Juried Exhibition commemorating the 150th Anniversary of Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species. The exhibition will consist of two- and three-dimensional artwork depicting visual interpretations on Darwin’s life and career, as well as reflections on evolution and natural selection.