[Volunteers] 2 wks to Prof Carroll's webcast; please reply!

[Phil Terry]

Hey folks,

I hope you are all doing well.

We are about two weeks out from the webcast lecture from Professor  
Sean Carroll. As most of know, Prof. Carroll is a great speaker,  
scientist and writer. He is going to put together a *terrific* talk  
that will be live at Wisconsin and broadcast live around the world.

Can you help?

- Spread the word far and wide for folks to sign-up
This is going to be a very special presentation. Sean has been working  
on it - and all I can tell you is that will be a multi-media  
extravaganza.

[  ] Yes, happy to spread the word!
[  ] No, not able to

See the sample invite below to pass out to your communities. Also see  
the Facebook and Twitter suggestions that I have for you.

Thank you!

Phil

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Sample Facebook update
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The Making of the Fittest? Global Darwin150 webcast with Prof. Sean  
Carroll Nov 4, 2009 at 8pm ET. Free: http://darwinlecture3.eventbrite.com/

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Sample Twitter post
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The Making of the Fittest? Global Darwin150 webcast with Prof. Sean  
Carroll 11/4/09 @8pmET Free: http://bit.ly/BSUcG

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Sample e-mail invite
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Subject: Invitation to "Making of the Fittest" Wed., Nov 4 8pm ET

I'd like to invite you to the Darwin150 lecture by renowned scientist  
Professor Sean Carroll, "The Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection  
and the DNA Record of Evolution" Wednesday, November 4 at 8pm New York  
time, 5pm California.

For free sign-up for the webcast, click here:
http://darwinlecture3.eventbrite.com/

World-renowned scientist, Professor Carroll, author of a number of  
books for the general reader and over 100 scientific papers, will  
deliver the third lecture in the Darwin150  "Origin of Species"  
anniversary series. Hosted by The Reading Odyssey and the Darwin  
Facebook project, the lecture series is sponsored by National  
Geographic, Citrix Online and their HiDef Conferencing Division,  
Campaign Monitor,  Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, National  
Center for Science Education,Squarespace, Creation The Movie, and The  
New York Academy of Sciences.

Sean Carroll's bio is below. I hope you can join us for this global  
event!

Thanks,

[yourname]

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Sean Carroll is Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics and an  
Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the  
University of Wisconsin. His research has centered on the genes that  
control animal body patterns and play major roles in the evolution of  
animal diversity. Major discoveries from his laboratory have been  
featured in TIME, US News & World Report, The New York Times,  
Discover, and Natural History.

Sean is the author of The Making of the Fittest (2006, W.W. Norton)  
and of Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo(2005,  
W.W. Norton). He is also co-author with Jen Grenier and Scott  
Weatherbee of the textbook From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics  
and the Evolution of Animal Design (2nd ed, 2005; Blackwell  
Scientific) and with Anthony Griffiths, Richard Lewontin, and Susan  
Wessler of the textbook Introduction to Genetic Analysis(9e, 2007,  
W.H. Freeman and Co.). He is also the author or co-author of more than  
100 scientific papers.

Sean is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (elected 2007)  
and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of  
Science. He has received the National Science Foundation Presidential  
Young Investigator Award, the Shaw Scientist Award of the Milwaukee  
Foundation, and numerous honorary lectureships. Sean was named one of  
America's most promising leaders under 40 by TIME Magazine in 1994.

He earned his B.A. in Biology at Washington University in St. Louis,  
his Ph.D. in Immunology at Tufts Medical School, and carried out his  
postdoctoral research with Dr. Matthew Scott at the University of  
Colorado-Boulder.

Sean lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife Jamie and two sons.
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