Have you ever wondered what your professor’s life was like as a student? What they struggled with, or how they ended up where they are now? “Growing Up in Science” is an event series about becoming and being a scientist. Faculty share their stories with a focus on the unspoken challenges of a life in […]
Events
Location: Room 357 Levin Building Kris Smith Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania Partner choice and the evolution of human cooperation: Evidence from hunter-gatherers Humans cooperate to an unparalleled scope and degree in the animal kingdom. How did this propensity to cooperate with strangers evolve? One hypothesis is that our ability to […]
Samantha Lewis Molecular and Cellular Biology University of California, Davis Regulation of Mitochondrial Genome Synthesis and Distribution within Human Cells Location: Tedori Family Auditorium, Levin Building lower level
Eric Turkheimer Department of Psychology UVA What is Intelligence? What is Heritability? What is the Heritability of Intelligence? Starting with Francis Galton, scientists trying to understand the genetics of complex human behavior have begun with the question of why people differ in intelligence; similarly, the foremost goal of intelligence researchers has been to […]
Ping Li Center for Language Science Penn State University Understanding the Second Language Learning Brain: Cyber-enabled technologies and computational methods Human language acquisition provides a powerful experience to the mind and the brain. In this talk, I present an interdisciplinary approach toward the study of second language (L2) from the perspectives of cognitive science, […]