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Monday, April 6, 2015

Huber named Radcliffe Fellow | Festival Series, Literacy in the Park slated

Robert Huber

AGGRESSION AND ADDICTION
HUBER TO BRING SPECIALIZED SKILLS TO HARVARD STUDY

BGSU neuroscientist Dr. Robert Huber will be sharing his expertise with colleagues at Harvard University next year as a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. Best known at BGSU for his research into the neurochemistry of behavioral phenomena such as aggression and addiction in crayfish, Huber also has specialized experience in computer vision, which he will apply to Harvard's quantitative behavioral study of Drosophila, or fruit flies.

"This is a relatively new field of computational ethology," Huber said. "It's an attempt to apply novel computer tools to describe, characterize and understand behavior."

Huber will be training computers to automatically observe the insects in operant behavior chambers (Skinner boxes) and to automatically reward or punish their movements.

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'IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE' AUTHOR HIGHLIGHTS LITERACY IN THE PARK

Laura Numeroff

Children's author Laura Numeroff, best known for her "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie," "If You Give A Pig a Pancake" and "If You Give a Moose a Muffin" series, is the featured presenter at the 2015 Literacy in the Park event on Saturday (April 11) at the Stroh Center.

The free, literacy-focused event for families takes place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and will offer hands-on literacy activities, interactive technology games, special prizes, crafts and much more.

IN BRIEF

• The University will host David Schmidtz, a 2014-15 Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar, to speak on "Society Is Not a Race," on Thursday (April 9).

• Renowned jazz artist Jon Cowherd brings his Mercy Project to the Festival Series this Saturday (April 11) in Kobacker Hall.

• BGSU Firelands College Theatre concludes its season this week with "Love and Whiskey," by Allyson Currin, based on the Depression-era diaries kept by her grandmother.

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