Irene Pepperberg at UM NOW!

I just got back from picking up Irene Pepperberg from the Detroit airport and dropping her off at a hotel here in Ann Arbor. A while back I interviewed her for Friday Grey Matters, and afterwards suggested to the UM Neuro peeps on high that she be an invited speaker for the Neuroscience Spring Symposia! Well, they agreed, and Irene agreed, so now she's here to give a talk on some really new fascinating work with Alex (I'll be blogging it, so no spoilers except some of it deals with visual illusions in parrots. Cool!!!).

Tonight is the student dinner with Irene, which is pretty much me, Irene, my posse, and of course, Dr. Steve Steve. So tomorrow, while I'll be at the symposia all day, expect some fun shots of us wining and dining Irene Pepperberg as well as a bit of commentary on her deepest secrets.

(That last part might have been a bit of an exaggeration, but I'll see what I can do!)

Stay tuned.....

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PLEASE SHARE IF YOU ARE INSPIRED Irène Joliot-Curie -- Chemist and physicist Shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband Frédéric Joliot for discovering that radioactivity could be artificially produced.
Hurricane Irene is probably at its strongest moment at this writing, as a Category Two hurricane, and will become weaker over time as she moves north. However, Irene is very large and will be moving very slowly. So, which is worse?
Hurricane Irene wasn't nearly as bad as it could've been. The consensus here in DC seems to be "nowhere near as bad as Isabel" (which hit the Mid-Atlantic in 2003), and many of the New Yorkers who ignored Mayor Bloomberg's orders to evacuate are probably feeling smug.

Hell with her, I want to meet Alex.

By Charlie (Colorado) (not verified) on 29 Apr 2007 #permalink

Oh, excellent! I'm glad you hooked her up with a speaking gig.
Say hi to her for me, from Karla!