Another interesting event on campus this summer was Evolution 2006, a conference of evolutionary biologists. Here‘s a blog post from science writer Carl Zimmer about his time on campus.
If you’re interested, the conference featured a Battle of the Bands. If there’s a reason to attend a conference of evolutionary biologists, I think that’d be it. (Of course, I was a broadcast journalism major with a master’s degree in counseling, so I don’t know that I’m really their target market.)