[Fbpage] FYI - e-mail to universities

[Phil Terry]

Folks,

Kendall put together a database of thousands of biologists at  
universities and we just sent them the note below.

Thanks, Kendall!

Phil

I'm writing with a special request regarding a campaign that a ragtag  
group of volunteers on Facebook has created - along with support from  
E.O. Wilson, Sean Carroll and media partners like National Geographic.  
The campaign is Darwin150 and our goal is to gather millions online to  
celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's "On the  
Origin of Species."

While acknowledging that you don't know us, we would like to ask for  
your help.

1. Help us get to 1 million members on Facebook
We already have over 250,000 members on our Darwin Facebook group, and  
want to get to 1 million members by November 24th to show the breadth  
and depth of support for evolutionary theory and the significance of  
Darwin's great book.

Even if you don't use Facebook yourself, please pass this e-mail to  
your students, postdocs, fellow faculty and others and ask them to  
join our group on Facebook.

The link to join our Facebook group is here:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53320310123

2. Join our lecture series

We have designed a free lecture series, available live via webcast and  
teleconference, on the following dates:

- Wednesday, September 16. "The World before Darwin", Prof. Everett
Mendelsohn, Harvard, 8PM EST
- Wednesday, October 7, "Variation", Prof. Weiner, Columbia, 8PM EST
- Wednesday, November 4, "Natural Selection" Prof. Sean Carroll,  
University of Wisconsin, 8PM EST
- Tuesday, November 24 - "Frontiers of Biology", E.O. Wilson et al,  
Harvard, 1PM EST

We'd love to have you and your classes join us for any or all of these  
lectures.

To register to join the lecture, click on the links above or visit  
this page for more details:
http://www.darwin150.com/events

3. Consider hosting an event at your university

St. Louis University, for example, is organizing an auditorium for  
each of the lecture dates above and inviting all students to come to  
listen to each lecture together.

We'd love for you to consider doing the same.

The event on November 24, the actual publication anniversary, is at  
1PM on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, which may be a perfect time to  
gather students to celebrate this momentous occasion.

Would you like to consider hosting an event at your school to bring  
students and faculty together to participate in one or more of these  
lectures?

[ ] Yes, please get in touch with more details
[ ] Maybe, please get in touch with more details

Again, the link to the lecture series is here:
http://www.darwin150.com/events

Thanks to our sponsors for helping to make this campaign possible:  
National Geographic, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, Citrix  
Online and their HiDef teleconferencing division, Campaign Monitor and  
our advisor, Harvard Professor John Dowling.

And thanks to you for taking a moment to read and consider this  
invitation from our volunteer - and ragtag - Darwin150 campaign. For  
all the details about our project, go towww.Darwin150.org.

Best,

Phil Terry
Creator, Darwin150 Campaign
Founder, Reading Odyssey
pterry at readingodyssey.com
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53320310123
http://www.Darwin150.com

P.S. Scientists who have participated in our campaign, helped us  
design the series or lent us their name/support for our efforts this  
year include:

- Dr. George Amato, American Museum of Natural History
- Professor Baker, Columbia; Director, Coral Research Lab
- Professor Sean B. Carroll, University of Wisconsin
- Professor Rodolfo Dirzo at Stanford
- Professor John Dowling at Harvard
- Dr. John Durant, MIT Museum
- Professor Marc Hauser at Harvard
- Professor Jonathan Losos at Harvard
- Professor Everett Mendelsohn at Harvard
- Professor Olsen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
- Dr. Ploegh, Whitehead Institute, MIT
- Professor Peter Raven at Washington University, President Missouri
Botanical Garden
- Professor Maryellen Ruvolo at Harvard
- John Rennie, Editor-in-Chief, Scientific American
- Professor Laurie Santos at Yale
- Professor Jonathan Weiner, Columbia (author "Beak of the Finch")
- Professor E.O. Wilson, Harvard
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