[Sci-all-l] WISM lecture: Leda Cosmides, Feb 17, 5:30

[Kam Dahlquist]

Students:  if you are interested in having lunch with Dr. Cosmides on 
Friday the 18th, please contact Kam Dahlquist at kadahlquist at vassar.edu by 
Tuesday, Feb. 15.

Please join us to hear the Vassar Women in Science and Mathematics Lecturer

Dr. Leda Cosmides
Professor of Psychology
University of California, Santa Barbara

"Evolutionary Psychology and the Human Mind"

Thursday, February 17
5:30 PM
Villard Room
Reception to follow in the Rose Parlor


About Dr. Cosmides:
Leda Cosmides is best known for her work in pioneering the new field of 
evolutionary psychology. She developed her interest in rebuilding 
psychology along evolutionary lines while an undergraduate at Harvard, 
where she got her A.B. in biology (1979) and her Ph.D. in cognitive 
psychology (1985). Cosmides did postdoctoral work with Roger Shepard at 
Stanford and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the 
Behavioral Sciences, before moving to the University of California, Santa 
Barbara, where she has been on the faculty since 1991. Cosmides won the 
1988 American Association for the Advancement of Science Prize for 
Behavioral Science Research, the 1993 American Psychological Association 
Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to 
Psychology, and a J. S. Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. In 1992, with John 
Tooby, she published The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary psychology and the 
generation of culture, an edited volume designed to be a state of the art 
survey of the new field. Leda Cosmides is currently Professor of Psychology 
at UCSB. She and John Tooby founded and co-direct the UCSB Center for 
Evolutionary Psychology.

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Kam D. Dahlquist, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology

Vassar College, Box 516
124 Raymond Avenue
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0516

Tel: 845-437-5266
Fax: 845-437-7315
E-mail: kadahlquist at vassar.edu
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