Brown Bag presentations for HUBI students, faculty and staff meet every two weeks on Wednesday from 12:00-1:00 in Morrison Hall 103 beginning Sept 28th. There will be a mix of presentations including academic and career opportunities, faculty research, and HUBI student independent research presentations. These are very informal, with lots of opportunities for questions and discussion. Please do bring your lunch and spend the lunch hour with us. Tea and hot chocolate will be available.
The first brown bag will be January 25th 12:00-1:00, MO 103, and will feature Dr. Debby Herbenick, noted sex educator and researcher (website).
Scheduled brown bags include:
In April 2010, Colin Johnson (Gender Studies and a Human Biology faculty member) delivered a paper entitled "Overwhelming Minorities, Left and Right" at the joint meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society and North Central Sociological Association in Chicago, IL. Later in April he presented a paper entitled "Homosexuals From Haystacks: Gay Liberation and the Specter of Queer Majority in Rural California" at the Fifty-Second Annual Meeting of the Western Social Science Association in Reno, NV, where he also facilitated a roundtable discussion of J. L. Anderson’s book Industrializing the Corn Belt: Agriculture, Technology, and Environment, 1945-1972 (NIU Press, 2008). Colin also won the Trustees’ Teaching Award! He and co-conspirator Mary L. Gray (CMCL) were awarded a CAHI Conference/Workshop Grant to support a workshop next fall dealing with the future of rural queer studies.
Andrea Wiley (Director, Human Biology) was awarded a Wenner-Gren Fellowship for her research on the relationship between milk consumption and child growth and the meanings of milk as food for children in Pune, India. She traveled to Pune in March to begin the project and will be returning in the summer for further work.
Neuroscientist Olaf Sporns worked with scientists in the international community to help create the first complete high-resolution map of how millions of neural fibers in the human cerebral cortex — the outer layer of the brain responsible for higher level thinking — connect and communicate. More »
Human Biology B401 students were selected as the Bloomington Parks and Recreation April 2009 BRAVO Award recipients. Each month Bloomington Parks and Recreation selects a volunteer or volunteer group who has significantly contributed to their programs, Department and community. The Natural Resources staff and Director felt that Dr. Schlegel and the students in her senior capstone course were exemplary volunteers, and their involvement with the Citizen Scientist program greatly impacted its success this year. Students investigated watershed quality and connected their finding to the Hoosier Riverwatch program and database and they advocated for the health of our community watersheds by participating in the Storm Drain Marking Program in the Cascades Creek Watershed.
Accepting the Bravo Award for the class on Tuesday April 28th during the Bloomington Parks Commissioners Board meeting in the City Council Chambers were Greir Flynn, Emily Kwitny, Dena Kranzberg, Brianna Kitzmiller and Dr. Schlegel.
The Human Biology B401 students will be sharing their watershed investigations during a poster session Thursday April 30th, 1:00 - 2:15 PM in Morrison Hall 107. Everyone is welcome to attend.
IU’s student newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student, has run a story spotlighting the Human Biology coffee hours. More »
