Graduate Student Breakfast with Eugenie Scott

The morning after her campus talk, "Intelligent Design and the Creationism-Evolution Controversy", a group of 14 UM female graduate students from engineering and the sciences enjoyed breakfast along with lively conversation with Dr. Eugenie Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) and former president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

The WISE-sponsored breakfast allowed students to discuss with Scott details of her talk, to listen to stories and strategies surrounding NCSE court cases, and to talk about her choice to pursue a career outside of a university.

Scott explained that even many people who support the theory of evolution don’t really understand it. Her recently published book, Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction, which received very positive reviews from the New York Times and other reviewers, is an effort to educate the public about evolution, the history of evolution and the evolution controversy.

Scott was on campus as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series for UM’s Evolution Theme Semester.

February 2006 eNews