Celebrated ecologist to present View program

Paul Feeny, Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell, will speak on “The Impact of Plant Poisons on the Evolution of Butterfly Lifestyles” on Sunday December 2 at 2 p.m. in the Eco Gallery at View.

The lecture is free and open to the public and part of View’s Science on Sunday programming.

Dr. Feeny taught and conducted research in chemical ecology at Cornell for more than 40 years and is recognized as an international expert in the field.

He is a long-time board member of the Max Plank Institute for Chemical Ecology in Germany, and recently received the Silver Medal Career Achievement Award from the International Society of Chemical Ecology. Science on Sunday is a program of presentations about nature, jointly sponsored by View and the Central Adirondacks Arts and Science Advocacy (CAASA).

More information about View programming can be found at www.ViewArts.org.

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