[Sci-all-l] Reminder: Leda Cosmides talk Thursday
Kam Dahlquist
kadahlquist at vassar.edu
Tue Feb 15 13:40:11 EST 2005
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
Students: if you are interested in having lunch with Dr. Cosmides on
Friday the 18th, please contact Kam Dahlquist at kadahlquist at vassar.edu ASAP
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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