World’s Fastest Animals Are Focus of Next Science Café

AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts Amherst biologist Sheila Patek will talk about “Speed: Life in the Fast Lane,” exploring some of the world’s fastest animals – but maybe not the ones most people think of – at a Science Café on Monday, April 15 at 6 p.m. at Esselon Café in Hadley.

 

Light snacks will be provided and drinks will be available for purchase. All Science Café events are free and designed for a public audience. 

 

The Science Café series is organized by graduate students in the organismic and evolutionary biology (OEB) program at UMass Amherst, and is supported by the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences, OEB and the UMass Natural History Collections. Organizers strive to bring engaging conversations about science to broad audiences by hosting Science Café events throughout the year. 

 

The graduate program in organismic and evolutionary biology at UMass Amherst trains M.S. and Ph.D. students in four major areas: animal behavior, ecology, evolutionary biology, and organismal biology. OEB graduate students, postdocs and faculty study biological processes ranging from the molecular to the ecosystem level, often bridging the gap between basic and applied research.