Celebrating Biodiversity with E.O. Wilson

Join COSAM on Wednesday, April 10, for Celebrating Biodiversity with E.O. Wilson. The event commemorates the opening of the Biodiversity Learning Center with a dinner at The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center. The dinner will include a presentation by world-renowned biologist, E.O Wilson. Wilson was the Joseph Pellegrino University Research Professor in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism and a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. A native of Birmingham, Ala., Wilson comes home to share his thoughts on the current state and emerging trends of biodiversity.

After months of construction and years of planning, the Biodiversity Learning Center is the new home of the Auburn University Museum of Natural History and will house the museum’s hundreds of thousands of specimens. The museum represents the rich history of Alabama, the Southeast and beyond.

Dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. and tickets can be purchased for $100 per person or tables of 10 for $1,000. A reception will take place from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. to allow participants an opportunity to meet Wilson one-on-one. The reception and dinner is $250 per person, and tickets are limited.  Proceeds from ticket sales will support the Auburn University Museum of Natural History.

To order tickets or for more information, call 334.844.7780. For sponsorship information, call 334.844.8645.