Iowa City Darwin Day, Inc was founded in 2007 exclusively for charitable, scientific and education purposes.
The purpose of this 501c(3) nonprofit organization (EIN 20-5827051) is to recognize and show our appreciation for the enormous benefits that scientific knowledge, acquired through human curiosity and ingenuity, has contributed to the advancement of humanity by organizing educational and social activities in and around Iowa City, Iowa. Originally just “Darwin Day”, the name was changed in 2021 to reflect that the event celebrates science generally and not evolutionary biology specifically.
Previous Iowa City Darwin Day: Science Fest Speakers
2023
- Kim TallBear (University of Alberta)
- Patricia Brennan (Mt. Holyoke College))
- Natalie Mueller (Washington University – St. Louis)
2022
- C. Brandon Ogbunu (Yale University)
- Kelly Weinersmith (Rice University)
- Shamar Chin (University of Iowa)
2021
- Erich Jarvis (Rockefeller University) Recording
- Charmaine Royal (Duke University) Recording
2020
- Carin Bondar (University of the Fraser Valley)
- John Novembre (University of Chicago)
- Anya Prince (University of Iowa)
- Bryant McAllister (University of Iowa)
2019
- Sharon DeWitte (University of South Carolina)
- Ana Duggan (McMaster University)
- Jeanne Serb (Iowa State University)
- Nicholas Strausfeld (University of Arizona)
2018
- James Hansen (Columbia University)
- Asheley Landrum (Texas Tech University)
- Julie Meachen (Des Moises University)
- Paul Strode (Fairview High School, Boulder, CO)
- Pete Akers (University of Iowa)
2017
- Peter and Rosemary Grant, Princeton University
- Anne Fausto-Sterling, Brown University
- Richard Wrangham, Harvard University
- Mary Kosloski, University of Iowa
2016
- Carlos Bustamante, Stanford University
- Ann Reid, National Center for Science Education
- Tim Weaver, University of California, Davis
- Briana Pobiner, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
- Emily Schoerning, National Center for Science Education
2015
- Sean B. Carroll, Howard Hughes Medical Institute & University of Wisconsin
- Marlene Zuk, University of Minnesota
- Ed Stone, University of Iowa
2014
- W. Ford Doolittle, Dalhousie University
- Kristi Montooth, University of Nebraska
- Robert Franciscus, University of Iowa
2013
- Steve Benner, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (FfAME)
- Rosie Redfield, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia
- David Des Marais, NASA Astrobiology Institute’s Ames Research Center
- Albert Erives, Department of Biology, University of Iowa
- Anne J. Lindberg, 2013 IC Darwin Day Artist
- Sarah Lindsay, 2013 IC Darwin Day Poet
2012
- Phil Currie, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta
- Ellen Ketterson, Department of Biology, Indiana University
- Scott Edwards, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
- Baba Brinkman, 2012 IC Darwin Day Rap Artist (Performed “The Rap Guide to Evolution”)
2011
- Frans de Waal, Department of Psychology, Emory University
- Lorne Wolfe, Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University
- Andrew Forbes, Department of Biology, University of Iowa
2010
- Janis Antonovics, Department of Biology, University of Virginia
- John Logsdon, Department of Biology, University of Iowa
- Tara Smith, Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa
2009
- E.O. Wilson, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
- Anne Yoder, Biology Department, Duke University
- Todd Oakley, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, UC Santa Barbara
- Maurine Neiman, Department of Biology, University of Iowa
- Nelson Ting, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa
- Mark Blumberg, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa
- Nancy Budd, Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa
- Lauri Lebo, Author: “The Devil in Dover”
2008
- Massimo Pigliucci, Department of Ecology and Evolution, SUNY Stony Brook
- Chris Brochu, Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa