Greetings all!! Our talk last month was a roaringly successful return from summer break, with our cozy back room at The Sugar Maple packed with curious minds. Let's keep that busy hive of curiosity going with our October talk, so be sure to mark your calendars and tell friends/relatives/neighbors/postalworkers about it!! See you there!!
Animals, including humans, use information from their world to make decisions. As a professor at Marquette, Dr. Chelsea Cook and her research lab use honey bees to understand what information is important, and how they communicate to work together. In this talk, she will share what they have learned about how bees work together, and what this can help us understand about our own complex society. She will also touch on the importance of science, the role public funding plays in science happening in Milwaukee, and of course, the importance of all pollinators.
Dr. Cook is a behavioral ecologist and professor at Marquette University, where she splits her time between her research lab and the classroom. She teaches courses on Animal Behavior, Neurobiology, and Environmental Biology. She is passionate about making science accessible to everyone, and she has collaborated with programs at Marquette to teach Beekeeping and Environmental Biology in prisons in Wisconsin, and engages in outreach with Milwaukee Public Museum, local businesses, and schools. She earned her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from University of Colorado Boulder, and did a postdoc funded by the NIH to explore how individual differences in learning change foraging behavior in honey bees.
Event info:
Date: 10/13/25
Time 7-9pm CST
Cost: FREE!!!
Location: Back room of The Sugar Maple Bar, 441 E. Lincoln Ave, Bay View, WI
