Last night I had the opportunity to attend the 10th annual UW-Whitewater Darwin Day event. I missed the “World’s Largest Edible Tree of Life,” because I had earlier been in Elkhorn for the Walworth County Board’s recognition of the UW-Whitewater football team’s national championship. I’m told the tree was delicious!
We had a full house at the Hamilton Center for a lecture by Michael Novacek, senior vice president, provost, and curator of the American Museum of Natural History. Dr. Novacek traced 100-million years in our history, identifying 5 major extinction events and discussed patterns of extinction and threats to the ecosystem. In addition to UW-Whitewater students and faculty, there were students and faculty from UW-Parkside and Beloit College and from many high schools in the region. This event was part of a coordinated Wisconsin Darwin Day outreach program along with events at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee.
Darwin Day 2009 will celebrate his 200th birthday.
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