Distinguished Professor Fedwa Malti-Douglas, (Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, Humanities and Law) was included in Women of the APS, Volume II was a year-long after-school project at the American Philosophical Society (APS) Museum that engaged 17 high school girls from Philadelphia's Charter High School for Architecture and Design (CHAD) as they worked on the second volume of the Women of the APS series.  The project resulted in a student-created booklet with text and pictures. The students focused on the ten visionary leaders listed below.  The girls selected and researched the women, drew their portraits, and wrote short biographical pieces about their lives and accomplishments.  As with the first volume, which was published in 2006, the second volume will be sold for $2, with profits benefiting the American Friends Service Committee Afghanistan Project in support of girls' education.

The after-school program took place in Fall 2007 through Spring 2008.  Women of the APS, Volume II was published in 2009. The goal of the Museum’s educational outreach programs over the 2007-2008 exhibition season was to nurture participating students’ understanding of history, science, and art and to develop projects that enrich classroom learning through experiential activities. The Women of the APS project was supported by a generous grant from the Connelly Foundation.

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• Inherit the Wind,
  Sep. 4 - 20
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• September 11 (Friday), Wylie Hall, Room 015 @ 10:30 a.m.
  PUBLIC LECTURE - Optimal Virulence: Pathogen Life History Evolution (James Holland Jones, Stanford University)
• September 11 (Friday), Ballantine Hall, Room 013 @ 4:00 p.m.
  PUBLIC LECTURE - Darwin's influence on the Psychological Sciences (Robert Richards, University of Chicago)
• September 13 (Sunday): Woodburn Hall (Room 120) @ 7:00 p.m.
  FILM SERIES - (D)evolution Double Features. Planet of the Apes/The Incredible Shrinking Man.
• September 14 (Monday)
  PUBLIC LECTURE - Massive Open Star Clusters in our Galaxy: studying the known and deducing the unknown (Margaret Hanson, University of Cincinnati)
• September 14 (Monday) Myers Hall, Room 130 @ 4:00 p.pm.
  Evolution, Development and Genomics NSF IGERT Seminars: 150 Years Without Darwin is Too Long (Norman Johnson, UMass Amherst)
• September 17 (Thursday): Lee Norvelle Theatre & Drama Center (TH A201) @ 7:30 p.m.
  FILM SERIES - (Re)presenting Race in African American Film. Nothing But a Man.
• September 18 (Friday): PUBLIC LECTURE - Human Foraging and Diet Patterns (Steve Gaulin, University of California at Santa Barbara)
• September 25 (Friday), Wylie Hall, Room 015 @ 10:30
  PUBLIC LECTURE - Ethics, Evolution, and Games with Neighbors (Ted Bergstrom, University of California at Santa Barbara)
• September 25 (Friday), Myers Hall, Room 130 @ 4:00
  PUBLIC LECTURE - Antagonistic Coevolution (Dieter Ebert, Basel University)