All presentations will be on Zoom. The links will be provided closer the presentation date. Watch this space for additional programs
SEMINARS
February 10, 1 pm, Jane Clark: (Kinesiology): Movement matters: How motor skills develop and change across our lifespan. Since her undergraduate days, Jane has always been interested in how we learn motor skills, and especially those who have difficulty in learning what might seem to be the simplest of motor skills. In her talk she will dissect how we control and coordinate our actions and how these changes across our lives. And for us “senior” movers, she will discuss the importance of moving and the challenges that might confront us.
March 5, 1 pm, David Inouye (Biology): How climate change is affecting mountain wildflower and pollinator communities. David has done research in mountains since graduate school, spending 55 years at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado, a sabbatical in Australia’s Snowy Mountains, etc. His talk will be about how mountain climates are changing and how this is affecting wildflowers, pollinators, and other mountain residents.
March 31, 1 pm, Robert Dooling (Psychology): Birds, Brains, and Behavior. Robert Dooling (Psychology) began his research on the psychophysics of bird hearing in graduate school while a research assistant at the Central Institute for the Deaf in Saint Louis in the late 1960s. After a number of years with avian field biologists at Rockefeller University he took a faculty position at Maryland. His work reveals the hearing capabilities of birds and has challenged some dogmas of hearing and speech in humans.
May 5, 1 pm, Carla Peterson (English): Trending Popular in Retirement! How my book, Black Gotham, became an historical source for the HBO series, The Gilded Age. Determined to move away from academic writing, I intentionally wrote Black Gotham for a general audience. Little did I suspect that some ten years later the book would inspire the black narrative of producer Julian Fellowes’s hit series, The Gilded Age. What happens, I ask, when a retired professor finds her work entering popular culture?
WEBINARS
March 24, 1 pm, Brian Kelly (Architecture): Visions of Campus: University of Maryland from 1856 to the Present
April 23, 1 pm: A conversation with UMD Director of Athletics Jim Smith