YUSBS presents the first faculty dinner of the semester with Professor Richard�Prum in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Dept. at Yale University. �Join us�on Monday, February 14 from 6-7 pm in the Pierson College Blair Room, which is�upstairs from the Pierson library (YUSBS members will be present to direct�you). Please bring your dinner from the dining hall.�Professor Prum, William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, Curator of�Ornithology in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, and Head Curator�of Vertebrate Zoology, will share his research interests and related life�experiences, as well as give students advice on how to succeed in the�scientific field. �He teaches Ornithology, Laboratory for Ornithology, and Evolution of Beauty this semester. �He has conducted field work throughout the�Neotropics and in Madagascar, has studied fossil theropods in China, and was�one of 24 recipients of the 2009 MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant".�