Cambridge University Reporter


Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:

Criminology. Doris Layton MacKenzie, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Director of the Evaluation Research Group, University of Maryland, will give a public seminar on What works in corrections: reducing the criminal activity of offenders and delinquents, on 16 March at 5.30 p.m. in room B3 at the Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue.

Philosophy. Professor Daniel Dennett, of Tufts University, will deliver this year's Annual Heffer Lecture in Philosophy entitled Breaking the spell: religion as a natural phenomenon, at 5.30 p.m. on 17 March, in the Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Zoology. Evolution and Development Seminars will be held in the Part II Lecture Theatre on the first floor of the Zoology Department, Downing Street, on Wednesdays (with the exception of Tuesday, 28 March) from 1 to 2 p.m.
8 March Getting to the genes behind the colours on butterfly wings, by Patricia Beldade, of Leiden University.
15 March Bridging the gap between fly and beetle development: the reduction of extraembryonic tissue, by Urs Schimdt-Ott, of the University of Chicago.
28 March Trilobite construction: body building for the dead, by Nigel Hughes, of the University of California, Riverside.
12 April Yeast colonies: ammonia signalling, development, and long-term survival, by Zdena Palková, of Charles University, Prague.
26 April Odd extinct morphologies in early vertebrates: a challenge to development?, by Philippe Janvier, of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris.