MEDIA CONTACT: Lisa Freed
561-297-3022, lfreed@fau.edu

FAU to Host Frontiers in Science Lecture Series
Does the Variety of Life Have a Future?

WHAT: Florida Atlantic University's Charles E. Schmidt College of Science presents the first lecture of its Spring 2006 series - "Does the Variety of Life Have a Future?"

WHEN: Thursday, January 12, 2006
3:30 p.m.

WHERE: FAU Boca Raton Campus
Charles E. Schmidt Biomedical Center
Room 126

COST: Free and open to the public

CONTACT NUMBER: Patsy Jones - 561-297-1307

DESCRIPTION: Dr. Stuart Pimm, the Doris Duke chair in Conservation Ecology at Duke University, will present a lecture on species extinction, its geographical ranges and human impact. Known for his frankness and wit which has often put him in the center of contentious conservation issues, Pimm is one of the world's top scientists and the recipient of a Pew Scholarship for Conservation and the Environment, the Zoological Society of London's Marsh Prize, and an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship. His group works in Madagascar, South Africa, Brazil, Central America, as well as the Florida Everglades. A reception will follow the event.

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