Calendar 2008

If you have an event that you feel would be of interest to the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, please e-mail us to have it added to our calendar.

July 2008
July 2(W)
Last day for students to add classes to add or drop audit option(Summer II)
July 4(F)
Independence Day observed. No classes. University Offices closed(Summer II)
July 14(M)
Last day for students to drop Second Summer Session classes without grade penalty(Summer II).
July 21(M)
Last day for students to resign without grade penalty(Summer II)
July 25(F)
Regina Elsner Defense seminar
"Knowledge, attitudes, and opinions about human-wildlife conflicts held by community leaders in Virginia."
132 Cheatham Hall on Friday(July 25, 2008) at 11:00 AM
July 28(M)
Bradley Ray PhD Seminar
"Factors affecting largemouth bass recruitment in the trophy bass reservoirs of Virginia.”
Fralin Auditorium
8:30 am
August 2008
August 1(M)
Last day to apply for Course Withdrawal (Summer II)
August 4(M)
Web Drop/Add reopens for Fall Semester 2008
August 7(SA)
Classes end for Second Summer 2008
August 25(M)
Classes Begin
August 29(F)
Aug. 29 Last day for students to add classes and to add or drop audit option.
September 2008
September 1(M)
Labor day. Classes WILL meet
Sept 11(TH)

EEB Seminar Series
Thursday, 3:30-4:45
Fralin Auditorium
Ignacio Moore
Virginia Tech Biology
Seasonality and population divergence in a tropical bird
Sept 18(TH)

EEB Seminar Series
Thursday, 3:30-4:45
Fralin Auditorium
Anne Hershey
UNC- Greensboro
Methanogenesis, methane oxidation, and consumer use of methane-derived carbon in lake food webs: An example from arctic lakes
Sept 25(TH)

EEB Seminar Series
TBA
October 2008
October 2(TH)

EEB Seminar Series
Thursday, 3:30-4:45
Fralin Auditorium
Frances James
Florida State Univ. & The Nature Conservancy
Birds, dinosaurs and cladistics
October 3(F)
Last day for students to drop Fall 2008 classes without grade penalty.
October 9(TH)

EEB Seminar Series
TBA
October 10(F)
Last day to apply for Fall 2008 graduation in order to be included in the Fall Commencement bulletin.
October 16(TH)

EEB Seminar Series
Thursday, 3:30-4:45
Fralin Auditorium
Meghan Duffy
Georgia Tech
Causes and consequences of parasitism in
lake Daphnia
October 20(M)
Last day for students to resign without grade penalty.
October 21(Tu)
Opening of Web Course Request for Spring 2009
October 23(TH)

EEB Seminar Series
Thursday, 3:30-4:45
Fralin Auditorium
Andre Kessler
Cornell
Ecological costs of herbivore-induced plant
defenses
October 28(Tu)
Close of Web Course Request for Spring 2009
October 30(TH)

EEB Seminar Series
Thursday, 3:30-4:45
Fralin Auditorium
James Vonesh
VCU
Sequential predator effects in complex life cycles
November 2008
November 6(TH)

EEB Seminar Series
Thursday, 3:30-4:45
Fralin Auditorium
Craig Tobias
UNC- Wilmington
Carbon and oxygen cycling in a midwestern USA stream: linking biological and geochemical controls
November 13(TH)

EEB Seminar Series
Thursday, 3:30-4:45
Fralin Auditorium
Cameron Ghalambor
Colorado State University
Evolutionary ecology of birds
November 20(TH)

EEB Seminar Series
TBA
November 22(Sa)
Thanksgiving holiday begins
November 30(Su)
Thanksgiving holiday ends
December 2008
December 1(M)
Web Drop/Add begins for Spring Semester 2009
December 10(W)
Classes End
December 12(F)
 Beginning of Fall Semester final examinations
December 19(F)
 Fall Commencement Ceremonies (University and Graduate)