Events Calendar
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Mon. - Fri., 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.; Sat. 12:00 to 3:00 p.m. |
Doubling, Cutting, Pasting: Figures Re-InventedA quintessential New Yorker, A. J. Nadel uses photographic images from slides and photocopied photographic prints to create a variety of figurative images. Learn more about the artist at www.ajnadelart.net. To view exhibit card, click here. Meet the Artist reception Monday, November 9, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. |
4:30 to 6:30 p.m. |
Meet the Artist Reception: A. J. NadelPlease join us for this special reception at the opening of the exhibit "Doubling, Cutting, Pasting: Figures Re-Invented" by A. J. Nadel. A quintessential New Yorker, A. J. Nadel uses photographic images from slides and photocopied photographic prints to create a variety of figurative images. Learn more about the artist at www.ajnadelart.net. |
4:00 p.m. |
The Evolution of Bird Eggs and SongsThe Evolution of Bird Eggs and Songs David C. Lahti, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biology, Morrill Science Center, University of Massachusetts Birds are valuable study organisms for understanding the evolution of complex traits, especially those that involve learning. They have relatively short generation times for a vertebrate, and are easily studied both in the wild and (for some species) in the laboratory. This presentation will describe two studies that show how complex traits that involve learning can evolve by natural selection. First, the village weaverbird has distinctive eggs in Africa, in order to tell when a parasitic cuckoo lays eggs in its nest. After the weaver was introduced to islands without cuckoos, however, they lost some of the distinctiveness of their eggs, and became less able to discriminate against foreign eggs. In the other case study, male swamp sparrows sing songs of repeated notes. Faster songs are harder to sing, and females like them better. These birds learn their songs during a narrow time window as juveniles. Lahti and his partners brought nestlings into the laboratory and trained them on songs that were experimentally slowed relative to their natural rate in order to see how well birds would learn these lower performance-training models. Swamp sparrows memorized the training models regardless of their speed, but they demonstrate two kinds of unlearned and adaptive biases during development: they speed up slower songs, and they reproduce faster songs more accurately. Both of these studies show how inheritance and learning interact to produce the final form of a behavior. Call (315) 792-3028 for more information |
7:30 p.m. |
Concert To Honor VeteransThe Utica College Concert band, under the direction of Michael DiMeo, will play a special concert in honor of all veterans, featuring performances by local choir members, under the direction of David Kolb and Kim Marsher. Program will feature patriotic music from the 1940s to the present day, including a selection of Big Band music from the World War II era. ROTC members will perform a ceremonial flag presentation, and all veterans in attendance will be honored for their contributions to society and to the world. |
