Workshop in honor of Stan Rachootin
Friday, January 3, 2020, 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Rooms 303-304
Organizers: Mansi Srivastava and Deirdre Lyons
This workshop honors Professor Stan Rachootin on the occasion of his retirement from Mount Holyoke College. Dr. Rachootin joined the faculty at Mount Holyoke in 1984, and over decades has taught classes on Darwin’s works, Ecology and Evolution, Macroevolution, and Invertebrate Zoology, among many others. Dr. Rachootin has had long-term impact on evolutionary and developmental biology through his mentoring of many female scientists. The senior theses of Dr. Rachootin’s students were strikingly diverse - the systems ranged from guppies to oligochaetes to mice, and the questions ranged from the evolution of behavior, to the origin of novel structural patterns on insect wings, to studies in the history of science. This workshop will feature talks by many of his students who are continuing to have impact on scientific research in their varied careers be they in academia, industry, or science communication.