{"id":12922,"date":"2026-09-08T11:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=12922"},"modified":"2026-09-21T15:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T22:36:43","slug":"please-join-us-in-welcoming-dr-maurine-neiman-professor-from-the-university-of-iowa-sept-24-530-pm-room-b101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2026\/09\/08\/please-join-us-in-welcoming-dr-maurine-neiman-professor-from-the-university-of-iowa-sept-24-530-pm-room-b101\/","title":{"rendered":"Please join us in welcoming Dr. Maurine Neiman, Professor from the University of Iowa, SEPT 24 @ 5:30 PM, Room B101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What does it take to support the future of science and the scientists behind it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/biology.uiowa.edu\/sites\/biology.uiowa.edu\/files\/styles\/square__768_x_768\/public\/2023-12\/Maurine%20Neiman%2C%20Professor%2C%20Biology_250x320.jpg?h=182f40e0&amp;itok=Lz1Idt_p\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"189\" \/>Please join the UFV Biology Department, in collaboration with Dr. Carin Bondar and the local nonprofit We Are Unbound<strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0in welcoming <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/biology.uiowa.edu\/people\/maurine-neiman\">Dr. Maurine Neiman<\/a> from the University of Iowa<\/strong>\u00a0on <strong>September 24, 2026, at 5:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Neiman will present <strong>\u201cEvolving in Practice: Supporting &amp; Empowering Science and Scientists,\u201d<\/strong> exploring how we can strengthen and support both scientific research and the people behind it.<\/p>\n<p>Graduate student in the <a href=\"https:\/\/neiman.lab.uiowa.edu\/\">Neiman Lab<\/a> and author of <em>Weird Atlas<\/em>, Peter Nitsche, will also join the conversation virtually.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark your calendar and join us for this important conversation!<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>More about Maurine:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>Maurine has spent much of her career making science more diverse, inclusive, and accessible; opening doors for young adults from all backgrounds and finding ways to bring science out of academic spaces and into the community.<\/p>\n<p>At the University of Iowa, Maurine founded the Neiman Lab, where students and researchers use a tiny New Zealand freshwater snail to tackle some pretty big evolutionary questions, like why sex persists when asexual reproduction is so much more efficient. Their work brings together evolution, ecology, genomics, and behaviour to better understand sex, genetics, and how populations change over time. (<a href=\"https:\/\/neiman.lab.uiowa.edu\/\">neiman.lab.uiowa.edu<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/biology\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12915 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2026\/09\/UFV-Bio-Rebrand-2-300x108.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2026\/09\/UFV-Bio-Rebrand-2-300x108.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2026\/09\/UFV-Bio-Rebrand-2-1024x368.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2026\/09\/UFV-Bio-Rebrand-2-768x276.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2026\/09\/UFV-Bio-Rebrand-2-1536x552.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2026\/09\/UFV-Bio-Rebrand-2-2048x736.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weareunbound.ca\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12932 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2026\/09\/We-are-unbound.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2026\/09\/We-are-unbound.png 151w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2026\/09\/We-are-unbound-45x45.png 45w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2026\/09\/We-are-unbound-65x65.png 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it take to support the future of science and the scientists behind it? Please join the UFV Biology Department, in collaboration with Dr. Carin Bondar and the local nonprofit We Are Unbound,\u00a0in welcoming Dr. Maurine Neiman from the University of Iowa\u00a0on September 24, 2026, at 5:30 p.m. Dr. Neiman will present \u201cEvolving in &#8230; <a title=\"Please join us in welcoming Dr. Maurine Neiman, Professor from the University of Iowa, SEPT 24 @ 5:30 PM, Room B101\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2026\/09\/08\/please-join-us-in-welcoming-dr-maurine-neiman-professor-from-the-university-of-iowa-sept-24-530-pm-room-b101\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":12961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[39,398],"class_list":["post-12922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","tag-guest-speaker","tag-science-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12922"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12967,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922\/revisions\/12967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}