Gross’ first lecture, “Managing Natural Resources: Mathematics Meets Politics, Greed and the Army Corps of Engineers,” will begin at 3:30 p.m., and his second lecture, “Mathematics and Biology: Bears, Panthers and Equations,” will start at 7:30 p.m. Both events, which are free and open to the public, will be held in the theater of A.K. Hinds University Center. A reception will follow the 7:30 p.m. presentation.

Gross is a visiting scholar from the University of Tennessee, where he is a professor of mathematics, and ecology and evolutionary biology. He has served as chair of the theoretical ecology section of the Ecological Society of America, president of the Society for Mathematical Biology and chairman of the National Research Council Committee on Education in Biocomplexity Research. The American Institute of Biological Sciences honored him with its 2006 Distinguished Scientist Award.

Gross’ visit is sponsored by the WCU departments of mathematics and computer science, biology, and geosciences and natural resources, and the Center for Mathematics and Science Education.

For more information, contact Joseph Klerlein, WCU professor of mathematics, by phone at (828) 227-3827 or by e-mail at klerlein@wcu.edu.

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