Guest lecturer to speak on birds

University of Washington biologist Scott Edwards will come to IU 4 p.m. Monday to speak for the James P. Holland Memorial Lecture. Edwards will examine the evolutionary history of birds and their genetic relationship to dinosaurs in his talk, "From Archaeopteryx to Modern Birds: A DNA Trail."\nThe lecture will be held in Myers Hall, Room 130.\nThe Holland Lecture was created in 2000 to recognize the scholarly excellence of minority life scientists. The Office of the Vice President for Student Development and Diversity, the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Department of Biology sponsor the lecture series. \nThe Biology department and the Office of the Vice President for Research also established a graduate fellowship in Holland's honor to support the training of a first-year Ph.D. student from a demographic group under-represented in the life sciences.\nJames Holland was a devoted teacher and reproductive endocrinologist who helped advance scientists' understanding of how thyroid hormones influence reproductive physiology in women.