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Arriana Nastoff
Arthur Olson
Mitchell Olson
Kevin Ortiz
Andrea Owen
Joy Putney
Hamilton, OH Ross Senior High School
Charlotte, NC Cox Mill High School
Southgate, KY Saint Xavier High School
Bellaire, TX Bellaire Senior High School
Mesa, AZ Mountain View High School
Yorktown, VA Grafton High School
Nicolaas A. Rupke Johnson Professor of Leadership and the History of Ideas Professor Rupke is an internationally-known expert on the history of science. His first Spring Term course, “Animal Behavior and Human Morality,” explored the history of the way individuals have looked to animal behavior for answers on how humans should conduct themselves. “If animals behave in certain ways, then these ways are natural and therefore beyond reproach,” Rupke said in discussing the course. “If humans share these traits, then they too are free of blame.” Rupke’s books include works on William Buckland, the 19th-century British geologist, and Richard Owen, British contemporary and critic of Charles Darwin and founder of the British Museum of Natural History. He is offering two other new seminars, “Darwin and his Critics: The History of Evolutionary Biology” and “Doomsday Science Then and Now.”