{"id":754,"date":"2008-10-24T22:57:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T02:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=754"},"modified":"2008-12-08T20:10:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T00:10:04","slug":"eugenie-scott-at-ucf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"Eugenie Scott at UCF"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned before<\/a> that Eugenie Scott from the National Center for Science Education is going to be here in Florida Nov. 3. The University of Central Florida issued a release about it<\/a> today.<\/p>\n

Scott, the executive director of the National Center for Science Education, will discuss \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Florida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Academic Freedom Bills: Creationism du jour?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at 7:30 pm in room 101 of the College of Sciences building. Her presentation is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Scott is part of the UCF Department of Biology special speaker series under way this year in honor of the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work on evolution. The series tackles how the theory of evolution has influenced all aspects of human society.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Chris Parkinson and Eric Hoffman, who teach the capstone undergraduate evolution course at UCF, often find undergraduates are unprepared in evolutionary theory when they arrive at UCF.\u00c2\u00a0 Their goal with this seminar series is to educate the public on the importance of teaching and understanding evolution.<\/p>\n

The series goes hand-in-hand with Florida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new K-12 science standards and curricula, and the faculty members hope many K-12 science teachers will take advantage of this free public lecture series.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I plan on being there with a few other Florida Citizens for Science members. Come on out if you can.<\/p>\n

(By the way, it’s her birthday<\/a>!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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