Conference PRogram (Abstracts with Programs)

Thursday, March 19, 2009
6:00 - 9:00pm	Welcome Reception at UNCW Center for Marine Science (map)
Friday, March 20, 2009
Location: Warwick Center, UNCW (campus map)
8:00 - 5:00pm	Art show and student posters exhibited throughout the day
8:00 - 8:45am	Coffee
8:45 - 9:00am	Welcome, Dr. Robert Roer Dean of the Graduate School and Research, UNCW
9:00 - 10:00am	Keynote Address by Dr. David Buss, University of Texas "Strategies of Human Mating in the Great Struggles of Life"
10:00 - 10:30am	Coffee break
10:30 - 12:30pm	Concurrent Oral Sessions A and B
12:30 - 2:00pm	Lunch break
2:00 - 3:00pm	Keynote Address by Dr. Peter Carruthers, University of Maryland "Evolution and the Architecture of Mind"
3:00 - 3:30pm	Coffee break
3:30 - 5:30pm	Concurrent Oral Sessions C and D
Location: Burney Center, UNCW (adjacent to Warwick Center)
6:00 - 8:00pm	Conference Banquet Keynote address by Dr. David Mindell, California Academy of Sciences "Applications and Influence of Evolutionary Science"
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Location: Warwick Center, UNCW
8:00am - 5:00pm	Art show and student posters exhibited throughout the day
8:00 - 8:30am	Coffee
8:30 - 9:30am	Poster Session I
9:30 - 10:30am	Scientific Presentation by Dr. Kevin Padian, University of California, Berkeley "How Dinosaurs Grew (and what it tells us about their biology)"
10:30 - 10:45am	Coffee break
10:45 - 12:15pm	Concurrent Oral Sessions E and F
12:30 - 2:00pm	Lunch break
2:00 - 3:00pm	Scientific Presentation by Dr. David Mindell "From the Great Chain-of-Being to Phylogenetic Taxonomies: Avian Exemplars"
3:00 - 4:00pm	Poster Session II
4:00 - 5:00pm	Closing Session with Keynote Address by Dr. Kevin Padian "Darwin, Dover, and Intelligent Design: What's next for anti-evolutionists?"