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Science Symposium Series

Dr. Kurt M. Pickett (left), an LSUS alumnus and Theodore Roosevelt Fellow at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History, chats with Dr. Jim Ingold, LSUS professor of biological sciences, after his midday presentation on New World wasps as part of the inaugural lecture in the late April Science Symposium Series sponsored by the LSUS Museum of Life Sciences. Pickett delivered a second presentation the following evening. A 1996 LSUS graduate with a BS in biology, Pickett earned MS and Ph.D. degrees from the Ohio State University and worked on two post-doctoral fellowship projects at the Museum of Natural History.

LSUS alum delivers inaugural science series lecture

Dr. Kurt M. Pickett, an LSUS alumnus and Theodore Roosevelt Fellow at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History, delivered two lectures at LSUS, including the inaugural lecture in Science Symposium Series sponsored by the LSUS Museum of Life Sciences.

Pickett, a 1990 graduate of Caddo Magnet High School and a 1996 graduate of LSUS with a B.S. in biology, presented “Four Billion Years of Altruism: From Molecular Alliance to Super-organism,” the Sience Symposium lecture, and “Testing Behavioral Scenarios: The Phylogenetics of New World Wasps and the Evolution of Sociality.”

Pickett earned Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in entomology from the Ohio State University. After receiving his doctoral degree in December 2003, he worked on two post-doctoral fellowship projects at the Museum of Natural History beginning in January 2004. His first project, “Computational aspects of phylogenetics,” was completed under a NASA Fellowship, while his Roosevelt Fellowship project, “Morphological, Molecular and Behavioral Phylogenetics of New World Polistes (Paper Wasps),” is scheduled to be completed this month.

For information on the LSUS Science Symposium Series, contact Dr. Jim Ingold at 318-797-5236 or JIngold@lsus.edu.