Link to Peru piece

Our Public Relations department did a great little piece on the Rockhurst website about our Biology Field Trip Abroad to Peru this summer.  You can find it at

http://www.rockhurst.edu/news/article/hawks-head-amazon/

For those of you who are interested, the bat I'm holding in the picture is an Artebius jamaicensis (Jamaican Fruit Bat).  She was squirming around a  lot, which is why we are

blurry but she's (mostly) in focus.  Just for fun, the picture herein is of a spider monkey almost completely obscuring my head, while the students behind me are busy with a Red Uakari monkey. We were at a sanctuary called Monkey Island on the Amazon. 

Busy weekend

This past weekend was incredibly busy but also REALLY exciting!  On Friday evening, I had the pleasure of giving a talk (pictured below) about evolution to the meetup group Provocateurs and Peacemakers.  The mission of this group is to provoke intellectual discussion about various (sometimes charged) topics while at the same time maintaining peace and civility.  We had some rich conversations that carried over to the Blue Moose afterward.  I met some really fascinating and fun people and got to catch up with the group members.  Then on Saturday Dr. Bill Sturgill (Rockhurst Psychology  Dept.) and I took a few items to PBS's Antiques Roadshow for appraisal.  It was interesting to see the behind-the-scenes of the show.  We didn't bring anything worth millions (or even thousands),

but it was still exciting.  Then on Sunday, my great friend and I and her fun family participated in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure to raise money for breast cancer research.  A montage of the experience is pictured above.  What a weekend!  Now, to get ready for the school year to start...