{"id":8381,"date":"2011-10-04T16:44:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T21:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=8381"},"modified":"2011-10-04T16:44:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T21:44:47","slug":"wild-ginger-across-eastern-u-s-focus-of-next-session-of-apsu-provost-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/10\/04\/wild-ginger-across-eastern-u-s-focus-of-next-session-of-apsu-provost-lecture-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild ginger across Eastern U.S. Focus of next session of APSU Provost Lecture Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Austin<\/p>\n

Clarksville, TN<\/strong> – Wild ginger is one of the most common wildflower species found in the moist forests of eastern North America, where it often carpets forest floors with its distinctive kidney-shaped leaves and small brownish-maroon flowers.<\/p>\n

In the past, botanists recognized three different species of wild ginger but today all recognize just one species, Asarum canadense. This topic will be the focus of the next session of the Provost Lecture Series at Austin Peay State University.<\/p>\n

\"Dr.<\/a>

Dr. Dwayne Estes<\/p><\/div>\n

Dr. Dwayne Estes, associate professor of biology, will present \u201cEastern North American Wild Gingers: How Many Species Do We Really Have?\u201d from 3:00pm-4:30pm, Thursday, October 6th in the Morgan University Center, Room 303. All presentations in the Provost Lecture Series are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

The goal of Estes\u2019 study was to study wild ginger across the eastern U.S. using a combination of morphological and molecular techniques to evaluate whether wild ginger as currently recognized should be considered a single highly variable species or whether it should be split into two or more distinct species.<\/p>\n

Estes is in his fourth year at APSU. He also serves as a principal investigator in the Center of Excellence for Field Biology. He graduated in 2008 from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology. His primary research interests include vascular plant systematics, floristics and biogeography of eastern North America, and the vegetation of Tennessee.<\/p>\n

Other sessions in the Provost Lecture Series also are planned for the academic year. All sessions are from 3:00pm-4:30pm in the MUC, Room 303 (unless noted otherwise) and include the following:<\/p>\n

October 13th:<\/strong> Dr. Korre Foster, assistant professor of music
\nOctober 20th:<\/strong> Susan Bryant, professor of art
\nOctober 27th:<\/strong> Angelina Fowler, Center of Excellence for Field Biology
\nNovember 3rd:<\/strong> Dr. Dan Frederick, professor of geology and geography
\nNovember 10th:<\/strong> Dr. Kathrine Flower, assistant professor of sociology
\nNovember 17th:<\/strong> Darren Michael, associate professor of theater and dance
\nDecember 1st:<\/strong> Dr. Tim Leszczak, assistant professor of health and human performance
\nJanuary 12th:<\/strong> Dr. Ellen Smyth, instructor of mathematics
\nJanuary 19th:<\/strong> Dr. Ann Silverberg, professor of music
\nJanuary 26th:<\/strong> Dr. Marsha Lyle-Gonga, assistant professor of political science
\nFebruary 2nd:<\/strong> Dr. Rebecca Johansen, assistant professor of biology
\nFebruary 9th:<\/strong> Dr. Sergei Markov, associate professor of biology
\nFebruary 16th:<\/strong> Cynthia Marsh, professor of art
\nFebruary 23rd:<\/strong> Dr. Christine Mathenge, associate professor of geology
\nMarch 1st:<\/strong> Dr. Robert Shelton, associate professor of chemistry
\nMarch 15th, MUC 307:<\/strong> Dr. Allyn Smith, associate professor of physics
\nMarch 22nd:<\/strong> Dr. Sharon Mabry, professor of music
\nMarch 29th:<\/strong> Dr. Cameron Sutt, assistant professor of history
\nApril 5th:<\/strong> Mark DeYoung, assistant professor of art
\nApril 12th:<\/strong> Dr. Tim Winters, professor of English
\nApril 19th, MUC 103:<\/strong> Dr. Jeffrey Wood, professor of music<\/p>\n

The Provost Lecture Series seeks to foster a spirit of intellectual and scholarly inquiry among faculty, staff and students. The program will be used as a platform for APSU faculty members who are recent recipients of provost summer grants, who have been awarded faculty development leaves and who have engaged in recent scholarly inquiry during sabbatical leaves.<\/p>\n

APSU faculty members with recent research of acclaim also will be given a platform within this series. In addition, other faculty members of local or widespread renown will be invited to lecture within this series.<\/p>\n

For more information about the Provost Lecture Series, call Dr. Brian Johnson, assistant vice president of academic affairs at APSU, at 931.221.7992 or email him at johnsonb@apsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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