Snakes alive!  Friday’s NAS guest lecturer will offer the skinny

Stephen Mullin, a professor of biological sciences at Eastern Illinois University, is the guest speaker for the next Natural and Applied Sciences seminar this Friday (Sept. 12). The program begins with the seminar at 3 p.m. in Environmental Sciences Room 301, followed by an informal social an hour later in ES 317. His topic is “No place like home anymore: Colubrid snakes coping in modified habitats in the Midwest.” Colubrids are a large family of generally harmless and often small snakes. He’ll describe ecological aspects of two snakes species — one common and one uncommon — that are subject to different levels of anthropogenic influences. (This is a rescheduling of Mullin’s cancelled-by-weather date at UW-Green Bay last February.)