Brain Buzz: Creepy or Cute? Exploring Cultural Normative Views of Insects

Join us in White River Junction for a science-based conversation with EEES PhD candidate Liz Studer. Brain Buzz is a monthly event hosted in collaboration with VINS and the UVFC.

October 26, 2016
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
Upstairs in the community room at the Upper Valley Food Coop, 193 N Main St, White River Junction, VT 05001
Sponsored by
Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies
Audience
Public
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Amanda Skinner

Dartmouth School of Graduate and Advanced Studies partners with the Vermont Institute of Natural Science and the Upper Valley Food Coop for a monthly conversation around science. Food and snacks are provided and ALL are welcome.

This month, Liz Studer will be talking about what makes insects important and why we should learn to live with them. She'll even have a few on hand, literally, to help you overcome your entomophobia.

Liz graduated from the University of Colorado in 2010 as a double major in Anthropology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. There, she worked on a diversity of research including the conservation biology of the American pika with National Geographic, Bioarcheology of Bronze Age human remains at the University of Notre Dame, and grasshopper mandible morphology and ecology studies with the University of Colorado Museum. After graduation, she worked as a research fellow at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention studying ticks and tick-borne diseases. Liz recently finished her master’s degree at the University of Georgia where she studied the conservation implications of a unique intertidal beetle species, Habroscelimorpha dorsalis media. Her master's research focused on using this species as an ecological indicator of human impact in Georgia beach ecosystems. Currently, she is a PhD student at Dartmouth in the EEES program, studying insect biodiversity and forest conservation. She is also very committed to teaching and has taught and designed several undergraduate and graduate courses.

Location
Upstairs in the community room at the Upper Valley Food Coop, 193 N Main St, White River Junction, VT 05001
Sponsored by
Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies
Audience
Public
More information
Amanda Skinner