For more photos from previous Darwin Day
Dinner, please click on photo
above.
February 11, 2012 PROGRAM
“Sex Cells: The Market for Human Eggs
and Sperm”
Talk by Rene Almeling, PhD, Yale University scholar, researcher and author
Rene Almeling specializes in gender, markets, medicine, and
genetics. Her
book,
Sex
Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm was published
in Fall 2011. The
project received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the
American Sociological Association. After receiving her PhD
in Sociology in 2008 she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Scholar in Health Policy Research. She is currently
researching genetic testing, genetic counseling, and in vitro
fertilization.
Darwin Day is an international celebration of science and humanity
held on or around February 12th, the day that Charles Darwin was
born in 1809. It celebrates the discoveries and life
of Charles Darwin—the man who first described biological evolution
via natural selection with scientific rigor. More generally, Darwin
Day expresses gratitude for the enormous benefits that scientific
knowledge, acquired through human curiosity and ingenuity, has
contributed to the advancement of humanity.
To reserve your place, print out the flyer with
REGISTRATION FORM (pdf format) and mail to:
CT Darwin Day Committee, 249 Chestnut Hill Road,
Norwalk, CT 06851-1412
For questions contact John Levin at (646) 371-9280 or
jlevin@tfm-llc.com,
or Craig Tomarkin at
ctomarkin@aol.com.
This
event is sponsored by:
Congregation for Humanistic Judaism of Fairfield County
Unitarian Church in Westport
Wilton Monthly Meeting of the
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Norwalk Public Schools Science
Department
Everyone is guaranteed
to go home from Darwin Day smarter, or at least knowing more than when they arrived!
Please tell your friends !!
