This talk offers a history of London life from 1650-1750 from the point of view of a shameful sexually transmitted disease. In particular it looks at how patients shopped for pox cures using addresses printed on over 700 advertisements, turning away from medical institutions and learned writing toward the streets, shops and homes where ordinary patients and healers interacted. more info...
Dr. Daniel R. Brooks is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto and Senior Research Fellow at the H.W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, Univeristy of Nebraska State Museum. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Linnaean Society of London, and recipient of honorary doctorates from Stockholm University and the University of Nebraska. He has held visiting fellowships in Budapest, Brazil, Stellenbosch, Loszeg, and Hungary's National Centre of Ecology. An evolutionary Biologist, his work spans pathogen--host evolution in tropical wild lands and foundational evolutionary theory, pioneering phylogenetic integration in ecology and behavior. His recent books include The Stockholm Paradigm: Climate Change and Emerging Disease (2019), The Major Metaphors of Evolution (2020), and Evolutionary Pathway for Coping with Emerging Infectious Disease (2023) and a Darwinian Survival Guide: Hope for the Twenty-First Century. more info...
The Nebraska Junior Academy of Sciences is designed to promote science and technology across Nebraska by providing incentives for 6-12 grade students to apply creativity and critical thought to solutions of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and engineering problems. It offers an opportunity for students to meet, exchange ideas, and discuss career possibilities with scientists and engineers from colleges and industries.
Students will develop a scientific research project, write an abstract of the project, and give an oral presentation the day of the competitions. Students will compete in two divisions: Grades 6-8 in the Junior Division and Grades 9-12 in the Senior Division. Each Regional Science Competition will select 6 junior and 6 senior high projects to advance to the State Science Fair. Judges at the State Science Fair will nominate Senior Division projects to attend the American Junior Academy of Sciences Conference.
Come and Share your Science at the 136th Annual Spring meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences! Students, Professionals, Faculty and Citizen Scientists are invited to submit an abstract of original research or synthesis of research/literature to one of the Sections of the Academy for inclusion in the published Program of the Annual meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences. Sections include: Aeronautics, Applied Science and Technology, Anthropology, Biology, Biomedical Sciences, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Environmental and Sustainability Sciences, Physics, and Teachers of Science. Network with scientists across the state, and present your research! more info...
