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Pulitzer Prize-winning author and zoologist Bert Hölldobler, who is visiting as an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large, will give a talk titled "Communication in Ant Societies," Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 4 p.m. in Room G10 of Cornell's Biotechnology Building. He also will speak on the "Regulation of Reproduction in Primitive and Advanced Ant Societies," Thursday, Sept. 25, at 12:30 p.m. in the Morison Room, A106 Corson-Mudd Hall. Both talks are free and open to the public.
Hölldobler, a professor-at-large through 2008, is a zoologist whose interdisciplinary approach to the study of the 10,000 or so species of ants integrates chemical, physiological, ecological and evolutionary methodologies.
Hölldobler received the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction for the monumental treatise The Ants, written in collaboration with Edward O. Wilson. It was the first book written by scientists, primarily for scientists, to win the coveted award. His second book, Journey to the Ants: A Study of Scientific Exploration, also co-authored with Wilson, won the Phi Beta Kappa Prize. In addition, Hölldobler has authored or co-authored more than 200 papers.
During his visit, Hölldobler will meet with undergraduate biology students, participate in neurobiology and behavior, ecology and evolutionary biology, and entomology classes. He also will conduct interactive sessions about ants with area middle school students through Cornell's Nanobiotechnology Center Science Outreach Program, and he will meet with researchers at Cornell's Lab of Ornithology and in the Departments of Neurobiology and Behavior and Entomology.
The A.D. White Professors-at-Large program began in 1965 to bring distinguished scholars to the Cornell campus for formal and informal exchanges with faculty and students. Up to 20 professors-at-large are named at Cornell at any one time. They make periodic visits to campus over six-year terms and are considered full members of the Cornell faculty.
For more information about current A.D. White professorship appointments, visit this Web site: http://www.cornell.edu/ Academic/Professors-at-Large/.
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