“Place” and Its Pedagogical Expression in Social Virtual Worlds By Meryl McBride (aka Merrill Johnson, Ph.D., Professor of Geography, Colorado State University)             Every avatar in SL functions in space and each occupies places in that space.  The purpose of this presentation is to examine the meaning of “place” in social virtual worlds from a […]

Heroes of Evolution Darwin Day Talk: Frances Arnold -- When Engineering Meets Evolution   Long gone are the days of dustry textbooks filled with examples of evolution seeking to capture the hows and whys of species came to be on the planet. Modern biology is progressing forward MAKING evolution happen. Genes and whole organisms are made to […]