Jane Hirshfield is the author of four collections of poetry and a book of essays on poetry, Nine Gates. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations and Columbia University's Translation Center Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, New Republic, Nation, American Poetry Review and others. She has served as a visiting associate professor at UC-Berkeley and lecturer in University of San Francisco's Masters in Writing Program. Hirshfield is a faculty member of the Bennington Writing seminars and has served as a guest poet at the University of Alaska, University of Minnesota and University of Michigan.
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A Journey in the Fight against Cancer. Holaday holds both bachelor's and master's degrees in biology from UA and returns to Tuscaloosa to honor his former faculty adviser, Dr. William Darden, professor emeritus of biological sciences at UA and a long-time chair of UA's Department of Biological Sciences. Established by Mrs. Ilouise Hill to honor Darden's 31 years of service to the University, the Darden Lecture brings prominent biologists to campus to address environmental and humanitarian problems and the ways science offers solutions. The lecture is cosponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Biological Sciences Program Grant. A reception will immediately follow in Oliver-Barnard Hall, located on the UA Quadrangle.