Invitation to the Faculty Named Chair Installation Ceremony held on Friday, October 12, 2012, honoring Scott Cook, William D. Ferguson, Astrid Henry, Clark Allen Lindgren, M. Johanna Meehan, and John Christian Rommereim.
We examine the contribution of plant pollinator interactions to the geographic range limit of the California endemic plant Clarkia xantiana ssp. xantiana. We show that pollinator availability declined from the center to the margin of the geographic range consistently across four years of study.
This essay addresses people's emotional reactions to the word on the page using examples from the author's son's writings. His son is autistic and unable to speak.